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of time they will be made available for complete analysis as 

 far as the nature of the problem will permit. 



Equally valuable and full of promise is the demonstration 

 work in Bolivar County, Mississippi, under the auspices of the 

 International Health Board, in co-operation with the Mississippi 

 State Board of Health. This undertaking is in charge of Dr. 

 Bass, of New Orleans, who has limited his efforts to quinine 

 immunization and quinine prophylaxis. Since no complete report 

 has as yet been made upon this interesting experiment, it would 

 be premature to advance definite conclusions, but it may be 

 pointed out that the demonstration included an imusually large 

 area of operations and a population of about 25,000, only about 

 one-fifth of which is white. The physical, racial and other 

 difficulties to be overcome are of an exceptionally complex nature, 

 and even though a complete measure of success may not be real- 

 ized a considerable amount of new information will be secured 

 and many direct benefits to the population concerned. 



We have not for this country realized clearly enough the duty 

 of an adequate and attractive presentation of the result of our 

 scientific investigations, demonstration efforts and statistical re- 

 search. Even though we have sections in the United States 

 where the death rate from malaria is as high as on the West 

 Coast of Africa, we have not at the present time anything like 

 the required information in matters of detail which is available 

 to us for remote regions of India, Burma, the Straits Settle- 

 ments, etc. The reports for these sections are admirable con- 

 tributions to the literature of the subject, and of the utmost prac- 

 tical value to the world at large. They are thoroughly illus- 

 trated by properly constructed maps and charts, which are gen- 

 erally wanting in the reports for this country. We are appar- 

 ently too self-centered in our efforts and too self-satisfied or too 

 penurious to provide adequately for the publication of the results 

 of our work. If such efforts as those at Crossett, Arkansas, had 

 been carried on in India, an elaborate report would have been 

 published with many maps and illustrations, showing precisely 

 what has been done so that those in need of further information 

 would derive the proper advantage from a truly wonderful and 

 practically useful experiment. We have unquestionably one of 



