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— we know what the period is — we do not charge it, nor do we 

 charge them with the cases which come from outside of their munici- 

 paHties into a hospital from which it is reported. We charge them 

 back, we try to keep the balance going. 



Secretary Headlee : Mr. Bowen, the question I asked you a 

 little while ago was this : does the ordinary relation between the 

 number of deaths and the number of cases hold for New Jersey, 

 in your judgment, as it seems to in the south? 



Mr. Bowen: Speaking of malaria? 



Secretary Headlee: Yes. 



Mr. Bowen : No, sir. 



Secretary Headlee : How many cases do you count as opposed 

 to a death ? What is the ratio ? 



Mr. Bowen : I do not think that in New Jersey the type of 

 malaria that we have here, that we have data enough to hazard a 

 guess. 



Secretary Headlee : I think the ordinary figures of the south 

 are about five hundred cases of malaria to a single death. 



Mr. Bowen : I think that would be multiplied very much here 

 for the type of malaria we have. 



Secretary Headlee : Suppose we grant there are a thousand 

 cases, for the sake of argument. 



Mr. Bowen : I think that would ve very conservative. Let us 

 see what the chart will show on that. Take Sussex County, 1,322 

 cases and two deaths, and that does not begin to represent the cases 

 of malaria in Sussex County. Many spots in Sussex County we just 

 collected that evidence from the physicians on three occasions there, 

 and there is a hotel that nobody ever goes to and goes home without 

 a case of malaria, and yet there is never a case reported from that 

 region. 



Secretary Headlee : That reminds me of another point that 

 strikes me in this malaria situation as a possible foothold for devel- 

 oping an anti-mosquito campaign in various counties which are not 

 now working on the problem. If the state department can get 

 accurate data so as to show what places most seriously need attention 

 so as to show us where to begin, we will start an anti-mosquito move- 

 ment at those points. We are prepared to offer you that co-opera- 

 tion, if the state department can take it up. 



Mr. Bowen : At the risk of being misunderstood now — I am 

 trying to prevent a thought that I am trying to get something out of 

 this organization — I have been thinking along this line since I came 



