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when water covered and hatched them. Back of the Florida 

 Cottage, opposite the Sea Crest Inn, on the west side of Broad- 

 way is a depressed area which extends on to the neighboring 

 lots and is a breeding place for the salt marsh mosquito. With 

 Broadway for the base, the West Jersey Railroad to Cape May 

 Point and Beach A^'enne for two sides, we have a triangle in 

 which is the Grant Street Station of the West Jersey and Sea- 

 shore Railroads, and also two depressed salt hay areas which 

 have been cut off from a natural drainage into the creek into 

 which they would undoubtedly drain were they not cut off by 

 the railroad. Here a culvert under the -railroad and possibly a 

 few ditches would effect a cure. 



Close to the Sea Crest Inn is a spot which needs attention. 

 Between Grant and Windsor Avenues west of Broadway, really 

 in W^est Cape May, is an area not found infested, but likely to be 

 dangerous. Between Windsor Avenue and Cape Island Pike, 

 Broadway and the Pennsylvania Railroad is a comparatively 

 harmless cat-tail marsh, along the edge of which infested de- 

 pressions were found. Between Broadway, the Old Turnpike 

 and Cape Island Pike is a triangle with a depression in it that 

 breeds mosquitoes. Back of the properties on the north side of 

 Yorke Street in a vacant lot, is a very bad breeder. Along the 

 Pennsylvania Railroad near the Ogden lumber yard and south 

 of it are some depressions that need attention. Back of the 

 blacksmith shop on Cape Island Pike between this and the Old 

 Turnpike, between the Old Turnpike and the creek, are some 

 depressions that may become serious breeders. Along- the Penn- 

 sylvania Railroad between Windsor Avenue and Grant Street, 

 larvae were found after every heavy rain in the road and adjoin- 

 ing depressions of the salt hay. On the north side of Grant 

 Street, north and south side of Congress street the space be- 

 tween the railroad must be treated if it holds water as some do. 

 North of Jackson Street near the winter depot of the Pennsyl- 

 vania Railroad and along Elmira Street in this vicinity are dan- 

 gerous depressions. Then on the Golf Club grounds ; at the 

 edg-e nearest the sedge marsh on the southwestern half of the 

 grounds, practically below the club house and some distance 

 above, are depressions where the salt marsh species breeds. On 

 the west and east side of Franklin Street north of Kearney Ave- 

 nue, between Columbia Avenue and Sewell Avenue north of 

 Franklin Street, on the South side of Stockton Avenue, west of 

 Queen Street and west of Madison Street are dangerous infested 

 depressions in salt hay. Then all the large triangular marsh 

 area bounded on the east by Madison Avenue with its numerous 

 bad spots — all these areas should be graded, though those near 



