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In the problem, then, of increasing the amount spent for 

 "actual elimination," and decreasing the amount spent for "find- 

 ing" breeding places, it seems unlikely that the amount spent for 

 administration, 15 per cent., can be reduced very much, and it 

 is obvious that inspection charges amounting to 25 per cent, 

 cannot be reduced very much. We might, it is true, obtain a 

 more efficient class of inspectors, so that each inspector would be 

 able to cover more territory, but I think that the average inspector 

 of the Mosquito Commission is as intelligent, faithful and effi- 

 cient as the inspectors of any department of the municipal gov- 

 ernments. The men at present are covering on an average any 

 wheres from 2 to 10 miles of territory apiece, and this amount 

 cannot very well be raised if efficient work is to be done. The 

 big saving, then, must be made in the cost of permanent or tem- 

 porary elimination of breeding places, unless a different pro- 

 cedure of exterminating mosquitoes is found. 



We must try more and more to put the bulk of the cost of this 

 work on the property owners wherever it is possible, particularly 

 those who* obtain direct benefit from the drainage operations. 

 We have made this attempt in our own county with fairly satis- 

 factory results. We estimate that from $20,000 to $25,000 is 

 spent by private property owners each year in permanent drain- 

 age work, or practically as much again as our yearly appropria- 

 tion. If as much as that can be counted on in an anti-mosquito 

 campaign, our costs would then be approximately as follows : 



Administration, 8 per cent. 



Inspection, 16 per cento 



Total permanent, 67 per cent. 



That is, only one-fourth or one-third of the amount usually 

 spent for anti-mosquito work would represent overhead and in- 

 spection charges, that is, the cost of "finding" breeding, while 

 two-thirds to three- fourths would represent the amount of money 

 actually expended for elimination. 



Salt marsh, 

 Inland, 



9 per cent. 

 58 per cent. 



2 pef cent. 



3 per cent. 

 2 per cent. 



Temporary, 

 Equipment, 



Miscellaneous, 



