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Department of Health and I could not find anything new. In 

 Hudson County we are carrying our work along with a smaller 

 per capita tax than any. other county in the State, and I feel 

 sure our office force is smaller than any other county in the 

 State. We have in our office one man, who is not only secre- 

 tary, but stenographer, typewriter and expert accountant com- 

 bined. That is our office force, one secretary, and Mr. Delaney 

 on the outside taking care of the laborers and inspectors. I 

 believe, as Dr. Darnall said a few moments ago, we ought to 

 have a check on our laborers and inspectors to see that they are 

 working properly all the time. Last year we hired a man to 

 go around and follow two or three fellows we knew were 

 shirking, and one day we told one of them what happened all 

 day. One man had been on the .job only ten minutes. 



The President — Mr. Barrows, of Monmouth County. 



Mr. Barrows — Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the Asso- 

 ciation : The title of this paper is, "Relative Cost and Efficiency 

 of Mosquito Extermination Work under Private Contract and 

 Commission Control." 



The first real attempt on the part of the property owners of 

 Monmouth County for mosquito control in a certain prescribed 

 locality was started in the spring of 19 14. Although under 

 Professor Smith of the New Jersey Agricultural Station at 

 New Brunswick there had been some sporadic work in the 

 way of ditching in various parts of the county, particularly in 

 the region of the South Shrewsbury River, there had been no 

 particular interest shown by the property owners favored by 

 this ditching, and, naturally, the effect in mosquito breeding in 

 this area was of but little account. In the neighborhood of 

 the Rumsin Peninsula, a. man had been employed during a 

 period of from May 1st to October 1st to look after the north 

 shore of the South Shrewsbury River and all the estuaries and 

 inlets of same. This work was not satisfactory for the reason 

 it was not far-reaching and comprehensive enough in its scope. 

 The property owners being dissatisfied with the results, deter- 

 mined to take up mosquito extermination in a more compre- 



