Evening star., 1933-10-06
States Added to Relief Ad-
miniStrati0n List Due to
Salt Marshes. ,
STATE OFFICIALS CONFER
WITH FEDERAL DIRECTOR
Heads o. Families Now Receiving
Aid Will Be Assigned
to Work.

Nearby Maryland and Virginia have
been added to the area designated this
week by Harry L. Hopkins, Federal
emergency relief administrator, for
mosquito control and malaria eradica-
tion
Resorts along the seashore particu-
larly will benefit from the enlargement
OF the program, for a concentrated drive
will be made to exterminate mosquitoes
in salt marshes.
The plan, as outlined earlier by Hop
kins, was to include only those States
in the South where malaria is prevalent
but Alan Johnstone. field representa-
tive for the relief administration, added
Virginia and Maryland because of the
many salt marshes in the two States
where mosquitoes, although not Of the
disease-bearing kind, make the areas
almost uninhabitable
Confer With Johnstone.
S. L. Thomson, superintendent OF
work relief projects for the Maryland
Relief Administration; Arthur w.
James, chairman of the Virginia Emer-
gency Relief Committee; William A.
Smith, executive director for the same
committee, and DR.. G. F. McGinnis,
representing the Virginia State Health
Department, conferred with Johnstone
regarding the two States yesterday in
Richmond
Whether or not the work will later
be extended to include the District OF
Columbia has not been determined. nor
has it been decided yet just how much
money will be appropriated to Maryland
and Virginia for mosquito control.
1t was made clear at Hopkins office
today, however, that no men will be
"a In, ait fof
Instead heads of families. now on work
relief or receiving subsistence allow
ances from relief agencies, simply will
be transferred to the task of draining
marches, applying oil to breeding places.
and the other necessary steps to kill
the pests.
Relief Directors to Cooperate.
Under the plan approved, relief direc-
tors will work in cooperation with both
State and Federal public health officials.
of the United States Public Health
Service, in charge of malaria investi-
cations, attended the Richmond con-
ference and will advise with the Fed
eral relief administration on the tech
nical phases of the campaign.
State relief agencies will employ
medical officers or sanitary engineers,
under the direction of State health Off
GERS, to make preliminary surveys Of
the work needed They will be given
the required technical assistants who
will eventually supervise the work in
the field
The specific areas of Maryland and
Virginia where the work is to be done
have not yet been determined. but
Johnstone Is anxious to have the work
launched as early as possible 50 that
much Of the control will be completed
by next Spring.
Work to Start in South.
At the same time. malarial control
will also get under way In South Caro-
lima, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, Ala
bama, Tennessee. Louisiana, Arkansas
Eastern Texas, Southeastern Missouri,
Eastern North Carolina, Southern Illi-
nois, the western tip Of Kentucky. Gen.
trail New Mexico and the San Joachim
and Sacramento Valleys Of California
by attacking the menace of malaria, :"
Johnstone said. through the use of un-
employed men on the relief lists, We
are making double gain. We give
work relief to the needy and at the
same time reduce the hideous waste of
human values that the South suffers
annually from malaria"