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creeks may be drained by ditches, if the soil does not prove too 

 sandy. 



Poverty Beach, noAv controlled by the Cape May Improve- 

 ment Company, is the last danger spot toward .Sewell's Point 

 and Two-Mile Beach. One-half of the breeding" area, the chronic 

 portion, was made harmless by the construction of ditches to 

 admit the tidal water, so that the breeding was materially de- 

 creased. The remaining area, that near the Cold Spring Life 

 Saving Station, will become obliterated in the course of the fill- 

 ing-in operations of the Improvement Company; this filling-in 

 to take place this winter. Mr. Cloud, who was the proprietor of 

 the Sewell's Point House during the summer, was very much 

 troubled by the mosquitoes before the ditching. He confessed 

 they were quite satisfied that the numbers were so materially 

 diminished that they could readily cope with the small number 

 that appeared since from other sources ; this is simply a corrobo- 

 ration of the utility of local action. 



Two-Mile Beach is so near to Cape May that it needs atten- 

 tion in the solution of the mosquito problem of Cape Ma3^ Only 

 the lower half, i. e., the southern, is capable of breeding mos- 

 quitoes. Here there is a zone of salt hay between the sedge 

 and highland in which there are some serious and other less 

 important depressions, all of which could be drained through 

 ditches into the nearby thoroughfares or creeks. 



B'Vtras. Out at the canning factory on the Pennsylvania Rail- 

 road is one of the worst breeders of the salt marsh species near 

 Cape May. It can be ditched quite readily. 



Along the country roads depressions were found breeding 

 mosquitoes — all are marked on the map. One over the bridge 

 from Schellinger's Landing turned out sollicitans and tmiio- 

 rhynchus. 



Along the edge of the highland from Cape May to Anglesea 

 Junction danger spots were found wherever a depression oc- 

 curred in the salt hay, still the breeding was in no place so heavy 

 as in the chronic pools in Cape May City. 



Wagner and Mellor's Report on Cape May. 



(i) Along the Cape May beach are two trolley lines. On 

 either side of the inner one, for the distance extending from 

 Seventh Avenue to where the two lines meet are bad pools. 

 These occur in sandy ground and nothing can be done except 

 to fill them. 



(2) Between the Villa Nova and Seventh Avenue are three 

 pools, designated the Villa Nova pools. When it rains, they col- 

 lect water and become breeders. They should be filled. 



