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extermination, but I sincerely hope that such an undertaking will be 

 made to include malaria eradication as well. I shall later have 

 occasion to re-emphasize the suggestion with some remarks upon 

 the advisability of an exhibition to be held for the purpose of visualiz- 

 ing the facts of mosquito extermination and malaria prevention and 

 control. Both are inseparably connected with each other and the 

 facts, I am sure, can be brought to public attention in a most in- 

 teresting and instructive manner. I also feel that such an efifort 

 might prove of great advantage to the w^ork of the National Malaria 

 Committee, which is not making the progress anticipated at the out- 

 set, although never, perhaps, have the possibilities of effective 

 eradication measures been more clearly recognized than today. 



Good results can be obtained only by co-operation and the co- 

 ordination of allied interests, which thus far, I regret to say, have 

 not been forthcoming. The interests enumerated in my 'Tlea and 

 Plan for Malaria Eradication," presented to the Malaria Committee 

 in 19 1 6, have not shown an inclination actively to support such a 

 movement as called for by the obvious facts in the case, presented 

 from time to time for the information of the public. It would 

 therefore seem to me that a different form of organization, resting 

 upon clearly recognized economic considerations, is likely to be more 

 effective than one primarily concerned with the medical aspects, as 

 must needs be the case in a movement initiated by the medical pro- 

 fession and furthered largely, if not exclusively, by medical men. 



Mr. Edward W. Jackson (Newark) : Mr. President, I was 

 selected by the Essex County Mosquito Commission to attend the 

 convention at New Orleans last fall. We saw on the program that 

 there was a section there that applied to mosquitoes and the commis- 

 sion thought that I might be able to ascertain some new ideas that 

 we might put in operation in Essex County. I soon discovered that 

 the whole subject of mosquitoes related to the malaria mosquito, 

 and that as we have very few up here there did not seem to be any 

 reason for our staying. The joke on me was that I went there 

 presumably, and as I thought, as an invited guest, and consequently 

 did not take part in the session that related to that subject, except 

 simply as a listener. But I managed to work on the outside a little 

 bit and induced the powers that were to bring before that meeting 

 a resolution that would include the mosquito as a general proposition 

 in addition to the malaria mosquito. The joke on me, as I say, was 

 that about two months after that I learned, in auditing a bill, that 



