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there are times when we each like to blame the other for the 

 mosquitoes in our homes. I think we pay almost too much atten- 

 tion in some of our large cities to the salt-marsh mosquitoes, 

 and we do not seem to realize the fact we are breeding mos- 

 quitoes right in our own homes. It is a question of educating 

 our people to appreciate the difference between salt-marsh and 

 the fresh- water mosquitoes and thereby bringing them, to adopt 

 that spirit of cooperation in control of the local species without 

 which the most satisfactory work can not be done. 



We are having the active assistance and cooperation of prac- 

 tically all the larger manufacturers of our county and the 

 assistance of practically all the railroads of the county. -We 

 rarely go to the railroads to ask them for any assistance that 

 they don't give it to 1 us. They will cart anything we want to> 

 certain places and dump it for us. We are getting 1 some 

 assistance from some of the western municipalities in Hudson 

 County on the empty lot problem. We have great open sewers 

 in Jersey City that could be closed up,* and we are hoping some 

 day, under the commission form of government, they will be 

 closed up and connected with the present system of sewers. 



I am told by Mr. Delaney that we have practically eliminated 

 or eradicated the breeding of the four-spotted mosquito, which 

 is the malarial mosquito, in our county. 



It seems that our malarial-breeding mosquitoes got a little 

 angry with Mr. Delaney because he was interfering with their 

 vested rights and bit him last summer. At any rate for two or 

 three weeks he suffered with malaria, and he now tells me the 

 malarial mosquitoes are practically eliminated. 



The sollicitans, which we have bred in Hudson County, par- 

 ticularly in the southern portion of the county, for a long time, 

 have been practically eliminated. 



I don't know that there is much more along the line of ad- 

 vances in Hudson County for me to say, because we are all 

 doing the same line of work, and we" come down here to attend 

 these conventions to find out what someone else is doing. I 

 went all over the literature of the past year of the United States 



