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Resolved, That this society fully endorses the work, believes in it and 

 would urge upon the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Atlantic County the 

 importance of their financial support until it is pushed to completion, and 

 further be it 



Resolved, That this society commends the activity and efficiency of the 

 commission in the prosecution of the work of mosquito elimination and feels 

 that any interruption of the work at this stage of its progress would be a 

 great mistake and would result in a total loss of all that has up to now been 

 accomplished by the commission. Be it also 



Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the Board of Chosen 

 Freeholders of Atlantic County. 



Passed by Atlantic County Medical Society, December 14, 1917. 



ATLANTIC CITY'S HOTEL OWNERS URGE CONTINU- 

 ANCE OF WORK 



A request from the County Board of Freeholders, shortly 

 before the close of 1917, for assurances that Atlantic City hotel 

 proprietors and business men desired a continuance of the annual 

 appropriation of $26,000 for mosquito extermination work, coup- 

 led with an intimation that the item might not appear in the 

 new budget, evoked a most remarkably unanimous declaration 

 of confidence in the work of the Atlantic County Mosquito Ex- 

 termination Commission. 



Representatives of the big hotel enterprises, public utilities 

 and mercantile interests of the city strongly urged the County 

 Board, through Samuel P. Leeds, president of the Chamber of 

 Commerce, and Dr. William Edgar Darnall, president of the 

 County Mosquito Extermination Commission, not to think seri- 

 ously of abandoning a great and necessary work. Some of these 

 letters, which show the status of opinion in Atlantic City among 

 hotel men, follow : 



C. B. DEACON, BRIGHTON 



We sincerely trust that this work may be continued. We feel that what 

 they have accomplished in the past has been a practical as well as a sentimental 

 benefit to Atlantic City and its environments and we should regret very 

 much to hear of any discontinuance of this work. 



HOTEL BRIGHTON, 



C. B. Deacon, Manager. 



JOSIAH WHITE & SONS CO. 



Dr. Darnall has requested us to write our views regarding the mosquito 

 extermination matter to your board. We understand the county has to date 

 expended upward of $100,000 on the project and has the work about half 

 finished. Under these circumstances to stop now would be to sacrifice what 

 we have already spent. We think, therefore, we should keep on with the 

 work until it is finished. 



JOSIAH WHITE & SONS CO, 



Jno. J. White, President. 

 ( Marlborough-Blenheim. ) 



