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Board of Health of Flushing and enlisted its aid under a new law which per- 

 mits the Board of Health to enforce the drainage of mosquito breeding-places. 

 The Board of Health issued its orders to the owners of the meadow lands, com- 

 manding them to drain their properties within ten days. The movement was 

 most successful, and by October 34, 1908, 75 miles of ditches had been dug on 

 the Flushing meadows, and the work was still going on. 



The most extensive work of this character has been undertaken by the State 

 of New Jersey. One of the writers (Howard), in an address on "The Eecent 

 Progress and Present Conditions of Economic Entomology," delivered before 

 the Seventh International Zoological Congress, Boston, August, 1907, made the 

 following statement: 



" But the work done by Smith, in New Jersey, and that which he has under 

 way in his large-scale campaign against the mosquitoes of that State are of 

 such a unique character that they force special mention. The mosquito destruc- 

 tion measures carried on by English workers, and especially by those connected 

 with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, in different parts of the tropics 

 controlled by England, has been large-scale work of great value. That done by 

 the army of occupation in Cuba was of enormous value, so far as the city of 

 Havana was concerned, and an assistant just returned from the Isthmian canal 

 zone assures me that it is possible to sit now out-of-doors of an evening upon an 

 unprotected veranda anywhere in the zone without being annoyed by mosquitoes, 

 and without danger of contracting malaria or yellow fever. 



" These are all great pieces of work, but when we consider the condition that 

 exists in the State of New Jersey, and the indefatigable and successful work of 

 Smith in the handling of the most difficult problem of the species that breed in 

 the salt marshes, and of his persistent and finally successful efforts to induce the 

 state legislature of that wealthy but extremely economical State to appropriate 

 a large sum of money to relieve New Jersey from its characteristically traditional 

 pest — we must hold up our hands in admiration." 



Chapter 134, of the Laws of 1906 for New Jersey, which went into effect on 

 November 1, 1906, and the passage of which was largely due to the efforts of 

 Doctor Smith, is here quoted : 



" An Act to provide for locating and abolishing mosquito-breeding salt- 

 marsh areas within the State, for assistance in dealing with certain inland breed- 

 ing places, and appropriating money to carry its provisions into effect. 



" Be It Enacted hy the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New 

 Jersey : 



"1, It shall be the duty of the director of the State Experiment Station, by 

 himself or through an executive officer to be appointed by him to carry out the 

 provisions of this act, to survey or cause to be surveyed all the salt-marsh areas 

 within the State, in such order as he may deem desirable, and to such extent as 

 he may deem necessary, and he shall prepare or cause to be prepared a map of 

 each section as surveyed, and shall indicate thereon all the mosquito-breeding 

 places found on every such area, together vnth a memorandum of the method to 

 be adopted in dealing with such mosquito-breeding places, and the probable cost 

 of abolishing the same. 



" 2. It shall be the further duty of said director, in the manner above de- 

 scribed, to survey, at the request of the board of health of any city, town, town- 

 ship, borough or village within the State, to such extent as may be necessary, any 



