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sive E. R. A. operations were in process, the State E. R. A. Administrator 

 made a decision that no local plans for mosquito control drainage for towns 

 and cities would be approved by his office unless such projects were endorsed 

 by the State Reclamation Board. After that date, all applications for projects 

 were submitted to the Board for examination and possible endorsement. Dur- 

 ing the period from January 10, 1935, until W. P. A. projects were actually in 

 operation, the Board was called upon to examine some 364 applications, repre- 

 senting a cost of $2,070,337, and covering the employment of thousands of re- 

 lief workers. Again, when the W. P. A. started in July, 1935, all applications 

 were endorsed, and, subject to the approval by state and national W. P. A. 

 authorities, work was provided for a total of 36,745 man-months, or an aver- 

 age of 6,000 men for a period of six months. 



Responsive to the requests from the State W. P. A. Administrator, in many 

 cases where the plan of work was not plainly indicated or where the location 

 of the woi-k was in an area not previously surveyed for mosquito breeding, the 

 Reclamation Board found it necessary to send an engineer or field investigator 

 to the town or city concei-ned before a project could be considered for enforce- 

 ment. This did entail much additional labor on the part of representatives of 

 the Board, and indications are that the Board will be put to considerable addi- 

 tional expense in the year 1936 because of the inspection of these pi'ojects 

 and the checking of the work, which both the W. P. A. and the local authorities 

 have requested. 



FINANCIAL STATEMENT 



Appended are statements showing expenditures on the part of projects other 

 than state projects for the fiscal year 1935, and the assessments for mainten- 

 ance of state projects during the same period. 



Expenditures 

 Mosquito Control — Other Than State Projects 



Previous to Fiscal Year 



1935 1935 



$255,209.15 $33,666.67 



31,431.76 790.93 



5,190.63 567.41 



588.54 33.50 



Project 

 Cape Cod .... 

 Nantucket .... 

 Belmont-Cambridge-Watertown 

 Natick .... 



Total 



Project 

 Bristol-So. Plymouth 

 South Shore 

 North Shore 

 Nantucket State 

 Martha's Vineyard 

 Wenham 



. $292,420.08 $35,058.51 

 Maintenance of State Projects 

 1935 



Total 



$288,875.82 



32,222.69 



5,758.04 



622.04 



$327,478.59 



Total Assessment 



for 1935 



$5,610.00 



14,050.00 



6,450.00 



700.00 



1,050.00 



50.00 



Total 



$27,910.00 



