Excerpt from Seventh Biennial Report, 1927-1928

According to the wording of the creative legislative act it is the duty of the Montana State Board of Entomology to investigate and study the dis semination by insects of diseases among persons and animals, said investiga tion having for its purpose the eradication and prevention of such diseases. The study of insects which do not transmit disease and the control of insects attacking crops are therefore not within the province of this board but are taken care of by the Agricultural Experiment Station and the State Entomologist. The State Board of Entomology is composed of three members; the Secretary of the State Board of Health, the State Veterinary Surgeon and the State entomologist, and therefore brings together in one organization the three State Officials who are most concerned with the control of human diseases, animal diseases and insects which may transmit disease.

The field headquarters for the Montana State Board of Entomology is at Hamilton, Montana, where a modern, fire-proof, well equipped laboratory was built this past year with funds provided by the 1927 legislative session.

The laboratory is occupied jointly by two staffs of investigators, one employed by the Montana State Board of Entomology and the other by the U. S. Public Health Service. These two organizations have worked together under an informal plan of co-operation since 1921. The State Board of Entomology has been fortunate indeed in securing this co-operation; the U. S. Public Health Service has not only been generous in its financial support of the work but has also provided highly 'trained investigators whose researches have advanced the work far more rapidly than could have been expected if the State Board had continued to work alone.

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