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counties where public sentiment would not support mosquito work, 

 have clone nothing. Wherever the people would support work, either 

 it has already been started or movements looking towards its begin- 

 ning have been initiated. 



In 1912, the year the law w'as enacted, Essex and Union Counties 

 began work, with $75,000 and $28,000 respectively. When the law 

 was in jeopardy in the legislative session of 1913 their legal representa- 

 tives stood by it solidly and were largely instrumental in preventing 

 its repeal or amendment. 



In 1913 Essex, Union, Hudson and Atlantic worked with $70,000, 

 $26,000, $32,000 and $26,000 respectively. Published reports of 

 their work are available to those who are interested. During the 

 same year Passaic, Bergen, Camden, Cape May and Gloucester 

 Counties had small appropriations for preliminary work as follows: 

 $8,500, $500, $500, $500 and $50. 



In all cases where funds were sufficient for the active work of pro- 

 tecting a whole county, the commission has proceeded to organize 

 a force of inspectors and laborers headed by a chief inspector on whom 

 the duty of. and the responsibility for, mosquito control falls. The 

 county is divided into districts of such size that the inspectors can, 

 during the breeding season, cover the breeding places every ten 

 or twelve days. The laborers are used to eliminate such breeding 

 places as can be destroyed. Pools are drained or filled, the mar- 

 gins and banks of brooks and ponds are cleared and walls made 

 perpendicular so that fish can reach every part and consume the 

 wrigglers. 



Briefly stated, the general plan is to find all the breeding places, 

 eliminate all of them that can possibly be eliminated by draining, 

 filling, cleaning or stocking with fish and to oil at regular intervals 

 all breeding places that cannot be eliminated. 



Of course, the covmty mosquito extermination commissions take 

 charge of the salt marshes within their limits, keeps the ditches clean 

 and extends them as the evolution of the marsh demands. 



Summary and Coxclusiox 



The state has undertaken the drainage of the salt marsh. Already 

 100 miles of the coast have been drained with large resultant increases 

 in property values. A law has been enected by means of which good 

 local agencies for mosquito control have been formed and closely 

 related to the state mosquito control work. This local agency has 

 proven successful wherever it has had a chance to work with a full 

 force and has obtained the support of the taxpayers. The local 

 movement is spreading rapidly. This local agency helps to estab- 



