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capitals of the South continuing mosquito-control measures. I con- 

 sider that a big step ahead. This year about fifty new communities 

 will start mosquito-control work, communities that had not con- 

 sidered it at all before. It has not been an easy matter to obtain 

 funds from those communities to start this work going. In a num- 

 ber of instances the funds have been procured because the women's 

 and civic organizations, composed mainly of ninety per cent or more 

 of women of different communities, have made up their minds that 

 those funds were going to be forthcoming, and they became available 

 through the action of the women interested in the mosquito problem. 



There are many ways of going about anything. If there are ten 

 possible ways of doing a thing there are two or three good ways out 

 of that ten, and there is one way that will succeed. That is worth 

 studying. I feel fairly confident that state aid should be available 

 from a state \those counties have done as much work as has been 

 accomplished here in New Jersey. 



New Jersey has been very influential in bringing about malarial 

 control in the southern states, although malaria is not your problem. 

 As your counties have voted money for mosquito control I personally 

 have used the counties as a basis for support through various states 

 and got appropriations from them to start our work going. Those 

 of us who expect to see malaria disappear from the Southland thank 

 you people of New Jersey for your efforts, which have enabled us 

 to get properly started. 



Mr. Eugene Winship (New York) : Mr. Chairman, may I ask 

 Mr. LePrince which states have appropriated funds for this work? 



Mr. LePrince : Alabama, the leading state ; Virginia, North 

 Carolina, South Carolina, Arkansas, Tennessee and Texas. Ala- 

 bama has an appropriation for four successive years, increasing year 

 after year. 



President Hudson : In taking up the symposium it has been 

 suggested that as each paper is read an opportunity be given for 

 discussion or the asking of any questions. 



