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Board, a total of more than 3,000 miles of mosquito control ditching. This 

 total includes the private projects financed by contributed funds and local ap- 

 propriations, and work done under state appropriations as an emergency relief 

 measure. Most of the ditching was done on the salt marsh areas, because here 

 was the most serious infestation, and the flight range of the salt marsh mosquito 

 is much greater than that of the fresh water variety. On the vast majority of 

 this ditching, the maintenance was provided for by law, and the continuation 

 of this maintenance assures the further satisfaction of practical freedom from 

 the pests in and adjoining the areas that have already been corrected. Failure 

 to so maintain these ditches would mean eventually a recurrence of these pests 

 in such quantities as to seriously affect values, especially in our many recrea- 

 tion and summer resort sections. 



FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 

 Appended are tables of the allotments and exi^enditures for the various state 

 and private projects on mosquito control, and also a table shomng the assess- 

 ments made for maintenance work in the different projects for the year of 1934. 



State Projects 

 Allotment of Funds From Appropriations of 1931-1932-1933 



1. $270,000— Chapter 112, Acts of 1931 



2. 100,000— Chapter 465, Acts of 1931 



3. 130,000— Chapter 307, Item 245-b, Acts of 1932 



4. 75,000— Chapter 89, Acts of 1933 



5. 25,000— Chapter 371, Item 241-b, Acts of 1933 



6. 22,767 — Local Approi^riation & Contributions 



Project 



Bristol-So. Plymouth 

 South Shore 

 North Shore 

 South Essex 

 Mashpee 



Martha's Vineyard 

 Nantucket State 

 Wenham 

 Total 



1. 



?90,000 

 70,000 

 90,000 

 20,000 



?25,000 



40,000 



5,000 



30.000 



3. 



?4,500 



57,500 



23,000 



30,000 



5,000 



5,000 



5,000 



4. 



?5,000 

 17,000 

 41,000 



3,000 



5,250 



3,000 



750 



?1,009.42 

 9,270.97 

 13,857.52 



6. 



?3,350 



18,450 



150 



862.09 



— 750 



Total 



?128.859.42 



212,220.97 



173,007.52 



80,000.00 



8,000.00 



11,179.09 



8,000.00 



1,500.00 



$270,000 ?100, 000^130, 000 ?75,000 ?25,000.00 ?22,767 $622,767.00 



Expenditures Mosquito Control — State Projects 

 (not including maintenance) 

 Previous to 



Project 

 Bristol-So. Plymouth 

 South Shore 



North Shore (inch So. Essex) 

 Mashpee .... 



Nantucket State 

 Martha's Vineyard 

 Wenham .... 



1934 



$128,265.85 



210,394.89 



251,095.81 



7,997.94 



7,926.98 



11,117.01 



1,489.54 



Fiscal Year 



1934 



$593.57 



1,826.08 



1,986.55 



62.08 

 8.60 



Total 



$128,859.42 



212,220.97 



253.082.36 



7,997.94 



7,926.98 



11,179.09 



1,498.14 



Total 



$618,288.02 $4,476.88 $622,764.90 



Maintenance of State Projects : 1934 



Project 

 Bristol-So. Plymouth 

 South Shore 

 North Shore 

 Nantucket State 

 Martha's Vineyard 

 Wenham 



Total 



Assess. 



for 1934 



$6,250.00 



13,675.00 



6,920.00 



700.00 



1,050.00 



50.00 



Total 



$28,645.00 



