The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-10
CREDIT BELONGS
 TOSTATEFORCES
 SAYS DR. WEIGH Health Officer Tells How
 Malaria Campaign is Being, Conducted
NATIONAL BODIES
 CREDITED FOR AID
But Claims Entire Work
 Is Under Supervision , Of Ala. Workers

Dr. S. W. welch, state health of ficer of Alabama, has written to The Age-Herald detailed account of the manner which the campaign against malaria is being conducted. Dr. Welch, while giving full credit to the United States public health service and the Rockefeller foundation for aid given, maintains the state forces are after all responsible for the benefits secured. He writes
 August 6, 1924. To the Editor of The Age Herald,
 My dear sir-I noticed some weeks ago, and again July 27, statement in your editorial columns that the United States public health service, was conducting malaria control work in rhe state of Alabama. 1 think you would be interested in knowing the facts in regard to the relations of the United States public health service to public work in Alabama, so I am writing you more or less in detail.
 The United States public health service has done no public health work except as outlined, and planned by the state board of health since the discon. tinuance of camp zone activities in 1919. In the spring of 1920 the state board of health worked out a plan fol doing malaria control work in Ala. bama and submitted it to the interna. tional health board with the request for funds to finance this work. Dr Terrell of the international health board few weeks afterwards submitted a counter proposition to us, accepting the plan of prosecuting the activities work. ed out by the state board of health and suggested that the United States public health service be made a co. operative agency in the prosecution of the work. This was cordially accepted by us..
 Under State Board
 The plan suggested by Dr. Ferrel was for the United States public health service to furnish given number of engineers to the state board of health who would work under the direction of the chief sanitary engineer of the state in the control of malaria. The international health board was to fur. nish sum of money agreed upon. which was to be matched fifty-fifty by the state. It developed that the Unit. ed States public health service did not have the funds with which to pay the salary of these engineers, so the Unit. ed States public health service selected the engineers and the international health board paid their salaries. They worked under the direction of the state health officer, supervised by the state sanitary engineer, Mir. G. H. Hazle- hurst. This plan under which this ac- tivlty should-be conducted was to be approved by the United States public service, the state board of health and the international health board (Roeke. feller foundation).
 The bureau of malaria control of the United States public health service. of which Dr. l.. D. Tricks, Memphis. Tenn, is the chief, represented the United States government in this ac. tivity, and furnished the state, on re. quest, expert advice on any problem which came up for solution. Mir. | A. LePrince, chief and first assistant to General Gorgas in Cuba and Pan. anna, was appointed field representa-. tive of the state health officer, and given the authority by the state to deal with lmpounded water companies. and other agencies, where malaria was like. ly to become problem. The work was prosecuted for one year under this plan.
 The agreement between the United States public health service and the international health board was that the United States public health service was to take over the salaries of the engineers after the first year. Con. gress failed to make the appropriation, which would enable them to do it, so the state entered into cooperative agreement with the international health board, and took over the salaries of the engineers. This arrangement is still ill force, and will remain so five wears
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