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Dr. Ramsey — I just want to express my appreciation of the 

 work you have done here in New Jersey on mosquito elimination. 

 I have had some little opportunity of familiarizing myself with 

 mosquito work, having spent about three years in Panama and 

 another couple of years in South and Central America. In 

 Toledo, last summer, the mosquito nuisance was so bad that the 

 people and the various boards of trade, particularly the Commerce 

 Club, petitioned a ma*n from Washington to come to Toledo and 

 make a survey of the city to find out and classify the mosquitoes 

 prevalent in this district. Dr. Carrol Fox came up and spent 

 some six weeks with us, but he found that it was too large an 

 undertaking in a limited time so the only thing he could do was 

 to make a classification of the mosquitoes relative to malarial 

 infection or to determine whether we had malaria carriers here 

 or not. Many specimens of Anopheles punctipennis were found, 

 which at that time were not thought to be malaria carriers. No 

 other Anopheles were found. 



The Commerce Club, of which Mr. Gould and myself are 

 members, took up this work on a small scale to study out how 

 this condition could be met and we have spent about six months 

 hard work on it. 



I was very much interested in Mr. Dobbins' paper on fresh- 

 water work and am glad to know that we have gone about our 

 work in just such a manner as Mr. Dobbins suggested in his 

 paper; but as I have stated, we have just begun our work, the 

 Commerce Club has of itself set aside a small appropriation for 

 a preliminary survey, which is now being carried on, making a 

 map of the 'breeding places in and around Toledo and you may 

 be surprised to learn that we have marsh areas about the mouth 

 of the Maumee River that cover some hundreds of square miles. 

 Therefore our task may be considered just as great as in some 

 counties of New Jersey. Elimination is not only necessary 

 from personal but from commercial and economic reasons. 



The Commerce Club in taking up this work has taken it up 

 fromi this standpoint. We have our work outlined and are start- 

 ing on a large educational campaign after which we hope to get 

 an appropriation from Council and to know how to use it. I 



