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grants of money have been made for the prosecution of mosquito 

 control measures. During the past year about $185,000 was 

 spent in the nine counties which were active, and about one and 

 three-quarters millions of people were protected to a greater or 

 less extent from, the expenditures of this money. I will not at- 

 tempt an analysis of the distribution of this money, as the whole 

 matter was so thoroughly covered by Dr. Headlee last year. He 

 showed you at that time two things : ( 1 ) That the cost per square 

 mile varied from $722 in Hudson County to $43 in Atlantic 

 County, where, however, very little inland work is necessary; (2) 

 He also showed you that along with the high cost per square mile 

 of a thickly populated district, such as Hudson County, there 

 was usually a low cost per capita, the range being from a little 

 over 5 cents in Hudson County to 32 cents in Atlantic County, 

 with an average of less than 15 cents for the State. 



The elements which enter into the cost of mosquito control 

 include the species of mosquitoes to be fought, the length of the 

 active season, the character and extent of the breeding areas, the 

 ^amount of cooperation to be secured from' the general public, 

 the cooperation of other municipal departments, and the legal 

 authority and powers granted to the organizations carrying on 

 mosquito extermination work. Practically all of these factors 

 vary so much in the different counties that it is a very difficult 

 matter to draw general conclusions as to what will be the ulti- 

 mate trend of the cost of mosquito extermination in the various 

 counties of New Jersey. 



I would like to present here, however, what I think will be the 

 tendency for future years in the matter of the annual budget 

 and the distribution of its expenditures. We can class the ex- 

 penditures for mosquito work under Administration, Inspection, 

 Permanent Elimination of Breeding Places, Temporary Elimi- 

 nation of Breeding Places, chiefly oiling, Equipment and Educa- 

 tion. Without attempting to weary you further with figures 

 of the costs in the various counties, it seems to me that the fol- 

 lowing might serve as an average budget of expenditures, being 

 modified to some: extent by local conditions, but, nevertheless, 

 being somewhat of a typical budget which the various counties 



