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Mr. a. J. Rider (Hammonton) : Mr. President, Mr. Miller's 

 remark about the horse being troubled with mosquitoes so he couldn't 

 tell what color it was reminds me of my first experience in South 

 Jersey. I used to drive a horse down in this vicinity of the salt 

 marshes and I couldn't tell whether he was black or whether he was 

 white, he became so covered with mosquitoes. I thought sometimes 

 if there were only co-ordination on the part of those mosquitoes they 

 might just pick that horse up and carry him away. 



We are always talking about the improvement that is coming to 

 the human race by the elimination of mosquitoes, but I haven't heard 

 a word about the comfort which comes to the dumb animal. It seem.s 

 to me that we ought to enlist the sympathy of every person who is 

 interested in dumb animals to help us in this work. 



Mr. Alfred Gaskill : Mr. President, I would like to ask Mr. 

 LePrince as to what was the per capita rate raised for mosquito con- 

 trol in Gulfport. 



Mr. LePrince : I do not happen to remember, but by writing to 

 the Chamber of Commerce of Gulfport you can obtain a reprint cov- 

 ering the entire work, and you will find it most interesting and well 

 worth getting. 



I might state also that there were 1,800 men at the Naval Sta- 

 tion at Gulfport. The first five naval officers that went there stopped 

 three weeks and three of them contracted malaria. There has not 

 been a single case since, I think, even in the families in the vicinity. 



A Member: Who w^as the man in charge of the drainage at 

 Gulfport ? 



Mr. LePrince: Mr. Frank, now the Health Ofiicer of Dallas, 

 Texas. 



Dr. Brinkerhoff (Jersey City) : Mr. Chairman, just before you 

 close, I thought Mr. Jackson would speak of this. Mr. Jackson and 

 I attended the sessions of the American Public Health Association 

 at New Orleans last October. All we heard there relating to the 

 mosquito was concerned with the malarial species. 



I think Mr. Jackson made an effort to arrange for some papers 

 on technical mosquito control at the next session of the American 

 Public Health Association, which will be held in San Francisco in 

 August. We hoped that this might prove to be a beginning. 



Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman (Newark) : I most heartily en- 

 dorse the suggestion by Mr. Headlee that the Association give en- 

 couragement to an effort to develop a national interest in mosquito 



