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progresses, it will be interesting to learn of some of these con- 

 ditions. I recall an instance of a large carriage and wagon 

 manufacturing concern in Newark with twenty-nine fires in its 

 forging department. The plant closed down for some three 

 weeks, and the inspector found breeding in the cooling tubs at 

 the side of the forges. 



At the beginning a complete inspection of the territory should 

 be made every fifteen days. 



After several inspections the records will show sections where 

 breeding is seldom found. It may be well to reduce the inspec- 

 tions of these sections to once a month. 



The size of the area in which the campaign is being carried 

 on will determine the amount of office help required to keep a 

 correct file of this information. 



This also 1 applies to supervising help, as, for instance, in 

 Essex County with its one hundred and twenty-six square miles 

 of area and five hundred and sixty-six thousand three hundred 

 and twenty- four population, we have divided the fresh- water 

 work into two units, a Deputy Chief Inspector having charge of 

 each unit. The units have been subdivided into several districts, 

 with an inspector and six assistants for each district. 



The assistant inspectors render reports daily to the inspector 

 and he makes a daily report to the Deputy Chief Inspector. This 

 also allows time for the inspector to attend to other work, such 

 as filling and draining and following up the work of his 

 assistants. 



The work of keeping the inspection force on the job is im- 

 portant. We have given this subject much serious thought, and 

 believe that our system of having a crew of follow-up men make 

 inspections a day behind the regular inspectors when we have 

 reason to believe their work has been neglected, solves this 

 problem. Through our filing system we now know where every 

 possible breeding condition exists in our county, and if these 

 places are not reported with each inspection trip, we assume the 

 inspector neglected them, and send the follow-up men through 

 his district. The follow-up men are instructed not to abate the 



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