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matters in ijcKKl condition, no breeding places obvious and no nios- 

 qnitoes flying. 



fFnly lOtli, a feAv specimens of the salt marsh species were fonnd,. 

 but no locals and no active breeding places. Some of the danger 

 points where breeding had been found in previous years were in 

 process of elimination by filling and grading. 



. August 21st, both the salt marsh species were present in large 

 numbers, though cantator outnumbered sollicitans ten to one. This 

 was the flight of brood 6 from the Jersey City meadow, and filled 

 all parts of the town. No breeding places were found in tlie 

 wooded area, nor indeed elsewhere in the public places in the town 

 limits. 



Point-No-Point. 



This is the triangular body of land at the junction of the Hack- 

 ensack and Passaic rivers where they enter ISTewark bay, and it 

 extends north to the main line of the Pennsylvania railroad. It. 

 was, when the mosquito investigation was first begun, one of the 

 worst breeding places in the State and the source of an unlimited 

 supply to the surrounding territory. Its position is such that 

 migrating swarms could reach Jersey City, Newark, Elizabeth and 

 the valleys of both Hackensack and Passaic with equal facility, ani 

 no more objectionable spot existed. 



Three years ago the Hackensack Meadows Company began 

 covering over this area with sand by means of hydraulic dredges,, 

 and Mr. Brehme reports : "While the entire meadow is not yet 

 filled, enough sand is flooded over it to fill the blind ditches and 

 breeding pools. Six tliorough inspections were made during ther 

 season and not one mosquito larva was found." As a breeding- 

 place this area is no longer of importance, and it forms an im- 

 portant link in the chain of work needed to eliminate tbe mosquito 

 pest from the most densely populated section of the State. 



East Orange. 



At the request of and in company with Mr. Roger H. Butter- 

 worth, president of the local board of health, Mr, Grossbeck in 

 June examined a number of localities suspected as mosquito 

 breeders. Some low open meadow areas with tussocks and long 



