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solved. He has been in the work. He understands it. There 

 are, on the other hand, very many people in this State who admit 

 that the problem is an exceedingly important one, but hold that 

 it cannot be solved. 



It takes a great deal of contact with the actual facts of mos- 

 quito extermination to convince one that it can be done, and the 

 educational side of the undertaking, presenting the facts to the 

 people in New Jersey, and the enlisting of intelligent support, is a 

 part of this problem. 



And just one more thought. In fighting to retain the law on 

 the statute books, we have found that much opposition has come 

 from counties that have no salt marshes, where mosquitoes do 

 not present a county-wide problem. They may be bad in one 

 locality or another, but they are not bad everywhere in the 

 county. For the sake of retaining the law as a workable instru- 

 ment we have felt, and by we I mean all of the men who 'are 

 most active in mosquito extermination, that for the good of the 

 counties along the coast it would be best not to encourage the 

 inland counties to undertake any large expenditure of money. 

 I believe that unless this is carefully guarded, there would be 

 enough opposition aroused in the State to force the modification 

 or the repeal of the law. And yet, even in these counties, I 

 believe that a great deal could be done and a great deal of co- 

 operation could be secured if the Mosquito Commission were 

 content with a very small appropriation, content with employing 

 one person, perhaps possibly not through the entire year, who 

 would be given authority by the State Board of Health, and 

 perhaps by the local Boards of Health, to force the elimination 

 of certain breeding places as nuisances. We all know that the 

 local Boards of Health will not do it, but if the Commissions in 

 those counties could have only one employee who has the moral 

 courage to force the elimination of breeding places because they 

 are a menace to health, we could accomplish a great deal at a 

 relatively small cost, and prepare the ground for work in a larger 

 way, even in the counties where mosquitoes are not a county- 

 wide problem. 



I want to add to what I have said, that this meeting must be 



