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on the malarial problem in Princeton, N. J., with an appropria- 

 tion of something- like $10,000. 



This problem! was taken up by a committee of the Borough of 

 Princeton and surrounding municipalities. Money was secured, 

 drainage was planned and put in, filling was carried out. B'efore 

 the work began there were one hundred and fifty odd cases of 

 malaria in a year in Princeton. In 1916 there were 8 cases. 

 This year Dr. Dahlgren told me that there were 6 cases. 



We feel that the work against the malarial mosquito in Prince- 

 ton has made a good record. 



Mr. AIvFrEd Gaskii.1., Director, Department of Conservation 

 and Development — I do not know that it is a particularly agree- 

 able position to take in the face of the accomplishment that has 

 been reported here this afternoon. There have been a few sug- 

 gestions of what the state could do and what the state should 

 do in this connection. There have been a number of good- 

 natured reflections that have crossed county lines, all of which, 

 to my mind and to the minds of you all, I think, but emphasizes 

 the reason, the emphatic need for correlation of this work by 

 some authority. Manifestly, that authority can be none other 

 than the state. The whole work, as I have sat here and listened 

 to these reports, represents an accompli shmient by one county 

 after another, creditable almost beyond belief, in a really short 

 time, yet work which stands, and of necessity, as things are now, 

 must stand disjointed. 



Perhaps nothing will better emphasize the relation between 

 the work which the state does not do and the work which the 

 counties do than to remind you of the money that is expended 

 by the two agencies. Now not for one minute would I have 

 anyone here understand that the state is entirely outside of this, 

 because that would tend to ignore the work that Dr. Headlee 

 and his force and Dr. Lipman and his force are doing in direct- 

 ing the work of mosquito control. Nevertheless, the state is 

 holding up a mighty small end of the work. It appropriates for 

 the current year $15,000. The counties within the state are 

 spending, or did spend last year — let us put it that way — up- 

 wards of $200,000 in the aggregate. You have heard what has 



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