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country. The Mound investigation is however but one of numer- 

 ous and most encouraging efforts throughout the United States to 

 solve the malaria problem on the basis of mosquito extermination. 

 Probably the most ambitious, far-reaching, and promising effort of 

 this kind is now being made in the State of North Carolina. There 

 is no undeveloped area in the whole United States of greater future 

 promise than the water-logged lands of eastern North and South 

 Carolina. All those who are concerned with local measures of 

 mosquito eradication can not do better than take the facts for the 

 State of North Carolina into particular consideration. There, also, 

 the most hearty and effective co-operation has been developed be- 

 tween the State Board of Health, the State Geological Survey, the 

 State Drainage Commissions, the U. S. Public Health Service 

 and the International Health Board. The outlook for the future in 

 the direction indicated is, therefore, one of great promise, and it is 

 with pardonable pride that attention may be called to those efforts 

 which best illustrate the lessons learned from the war as underlying 

 principles of a policy of industrial and social reconstruction. 



In the discussion which followed Dr. Hoffman said in part : 



"It is not a waste of money to publish intelligent reports. It 

 is a waste of money to pad reports with unnecessary data. I sent 

 Dr. Howard the other day an extraordinary report from Trinidad, 

 two or three hundred pages, dealing in the most detail with every 

 anopheles breeding area in that island. And he says there is enough 

 in that for the whole United States for which the data are thoroughly 

 understood, as is the data in Trinidad. 



I could give you reports from a portion of India, the Straits Set- 

 tlements, Ceylon, showing enough detail of sufficient importance, 

 and the facts must be thoroughly provided and the government must 

 provide for the publication of the report as well as the gathering 

 of the information. 



We are at this time research mad — more research and more 

 research. The results of research are fairly popular and are fre- 

 quently inaccessible. Rarely are they made use of anything like the 

 way they should. Your work that you have been doing is one of 

 the poorest described works done in the State of New Jersey. Atlan- 

 tic County makes an exception, but how many of your counties 

 publish proper reports ? And even the report for this county is not 

 by any means a full justice to what is being done here, a fully de- 

 scribed account, that those who study the subject can really judge 



