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of the results achieved. And I do think of an important county, a 

 very important county in this state, from which a report has not been 

 published I believe for several years. A small typewritten report is 

 all that is available to people who want to know what is being 

 done; while $100,000 is spent, yet in accounting for that expendi- 

 ture is but a fraction of what it should be. 



Every year — this is the fourth year I have spoken of it here, 

 emphasizing the foreign reports we get, illustrating in a beautiful 

 way how the malarial problem may be visualized for educational 

 and other purposes. You are making lots of mistakes if in the 

 Mound investigation you do not tell your own story as picturesquely, 

 as dramatically, if you please, as closely as you possibly can, and 

 in doing that should attract your attention. They are going to 

 solve, if they are allowed to do so and allowed to continue, they 

 are going to solve the first essential of agricultural economics in the 

 south, the question of how far the mosquito is the cause of the local 

 malaria, how far the local malaria interferes with crop production. 

 It will be able in course of time to show that crop production is dim- 

 inishing at a certain per cent. ; that there is less cotton produced, 

 less corn produced than would be the case, a considerable loss in 

 many cases, were malaria done away with. 



They will go further; they will show what the economic burden 

 upon the individual is, what the plantation cost is in medicine, in 

 medical attention, in drugs, in hospital facilities, in absence from 

 work, in other elements. If that is brought together in a proper 

 way we should have an unanswerable argument for malaria work 

 on the largest possible scale, and all malarial work ultimately is 

 mosquito work. 



You are doing splendid work in this state. You are keeping 

 down mosquito production and at the same time, though you may not 

 know it, you are undoubtedly keeping down the malaria rate. Mal- 

 aria does not bother us in this county very much, as far as I know. 

 How much it bothers us without knowing it is an open question. 

 I said this before, I say it again : in my judgment there is a good 

 deal of latent malaria in this state that accounts for much of the 

 difficult cases that doctors have to deal with. We need to consider 

 this question more seriously, even in this state; but you who are 

 directly engaged in eradicating the breeding places, you have to solve 

 the larger problem of malarial production as well. (Applause). 



President Rider : Dr. Headlee suggests that we have been doing 

 in New Jersey perhaps a little more in that line that he has sug- 



