48 PREVENTIVE AND REMEDIAL WORK AGAINST MOSQUITOES. 



Entomology/' delivered before the Seventh International Zoological 

 Congress, Boston, August, 1907, made the following statement: 



But the work done by Smith, in New Jersey, and that which he has under way in 

 his large-scale campaign against the mosquitoes of that State, are of such a unique 

 character that they force special mention. The mosquito destruction measures car- 

 ried on by English workers, and especially by those connected with the Liverpool 

 School of Tropical Medicine, in different parts of the Tropics controlled by England, 

 have been large-scale work of great value. That done by the army of occupation in 

 Cuba was of enormous value, so far as the city of Havana was concerned, and an 

 assistant just returned from the Isthmian Canal Zone assures me that it is possible to 

 now sit out-of-doors of an evening upon an unprotected veranda anywhere in the Zone 

 without being annoyed by mosquitoes, and without danger of contracting malaria or 

 yellow fever. 



These are all great pieces of work, but when we consider the condition that exists 

 in the State of New Jersey, and the indefatigable and successful work of Smith in the 

 handling of the most difficult problem of the species that breed in the salt marshes, 

 and of his persistent and finally successful efforts to induce the state legislature of 

 that wealthy but extremely economical State to appropriate a large sum of money 

 to relieve New Jersey from its characteristically traditional pest— we must hold up 

 our hands in admiration. 



Chapter 134, of the Laws of 1906 for New Jersey, which went into 

 effect on November 1, 1906, the passage of which was largely due to 

 the efforts of Doctor Smith, is so interesting and important in this 

 connection that it is quoted in full, to wit: 



AN ACT to provide for locating and abolishing mosquito-breeding salt-marsh areas within the State, for 

 assistance in dealing with certain inland breeding places, and appropriating money to carry its pro- 

 visions into effect. 



Be it enacted by the senate and general assembly of the Stale of New Jersey: 



1. — It shall be the duty of the director of the state experiment station, by himself 

 or through an executive officer to be appointed by him to carry out the provisions of 

 this act, to survey or cause to be surveyed all the salt-marsh areas within the State, 

 in such order as he may deem desirable, and to such extent as he may deem necessary, 

 and he shall prepare or cause to be prepared a map of each section as surveyed, and 

 shall indicate thereon all the mosquito-breeding places found on every such area, 

 together with a memorandum of the method to be adopted in dealing with such 

 mosquito-breeding places and the probable cost of abolishing the same. 



2. — It shall be the further duty of said director, in the manner above described, to 

 survey, at the request of the board of health of any city, town, township, borough, or 

 village within the State, to such extent as may be necessary, any fresh-water swamp 

 or other territory suspected of breeding malarial or other mosquitoes, within the juris- 

 diction of such board, and he shall prepare a map of such suspected area, locating 

 upon it such mosquito-breeding places as may be discovered, and shall report upon 

 the same as hereinafter provided in section eight of this act. Requests as herein- 

 before provided for in this section may be made by any board of health within the 

 State, upon its own motion, and must be made upon the petition, in writing, of ten 

 or more freeholders residing within the jurisdiction of any such board. 



3. — Whenever, in the course of a survey made as prescribed in section one of this act, 

 it is found that within the limits of any city, town, borough, or village there exists 

 points or places where salt-marsh mosquitoes breed, it shall be the duty of the director 

 aforesaid, through his executive officer, to notify, in writing, by personal service 

 upon some officer, or member thereof, the board of health within whose jurisdiction 

 such breeding points or places occur, of the extent and location of such breeding 



