PUBLIC HEALTH REPORT: Increase in Arthropod-Borne Encephalitis a Possibility

THE COMMUNICATION below is the first of what is intended as a continuing series of reports from the State of California Department of Public Health on topics of interest to physicians in private practice. On a number of occasions in the past, Dr. Malcolm H. Merrill, Director of Public Health, has appeared before the Council of the California Medical Association with intensely interesting reports on matters of public health and the attitudes and functions of the department. Since the minutes of the meetings of the Council give only the briefest of notes on such communications, Dr. Merrill was asked—and has agreed—to make use of this section of California Medicine for public health reports that can be informative and useful to all members.