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peculiar kind, and the men in charge of it in the various counties 

 as superintendents are high-class men, and could well be en- 

 trusted with the right to bring action requiring citizens to abate 

 mosquito-breeding places, and also to enforce penalties against 

 those who v/antonly destroy mosquito-prevention w^orks. 



A matter for serious consideration by all the commissions 

 during the present year is that of determining to what extent 

 our work shall be carried on. Are we to do only that which is 

 absolutely necessary to hold what we have gained, or continue 

 at full force as before? Does the need for economy extend to 

 such a work as ours ? Our commission favors limiting the work 

 as a means of minimizing public expenditures in these times and 

 also in conserving labor for works essentiaal to the successful 

 conduct of the war. 



President BrinkerhoEi^ — Are there any questions anyone 

 would like to ask Mr. Pollitt? If not, we will go on tO' Morris 

 County, represented by Dr. T. W. Bebout, President of the 

 Morris County Mosquito Extermination Commission. 



Progress in Mosquito Work In Morris County 



BY DR. T. W. BEBOUT, STIRLING, N. J. 



Mr. President, Morris County has not yet done enough mos- 

 quito work to have made it worth while to prepare a paper. In 

 19 1 3 there was a mosquito commission appointed in Morris 

 County. The Hon. John H. Capstick, our present congressman, 

 was its president. We made a request to the Board of Free- 

 holders for an appropriation, but they did not pay any attention 

 to it. Mr. Capstick did not feel like doing anything at that time 

 to force the thing along; so the commission died a natural death. 



I happened to be a member of that commission. On the 

 twenty-seventh of December last, I think it was, Dr. Headlee 

 came to.my house one evening and surprised me very much by 

 saying that he had been informed that the time was ripe for a 

 commission in Morris County, and he had rather picked on me to 

 do the work. He told me that he was going away for two or 

 three weeks the next day, and he would not be able to give me 

 any assistance. He suggested a list of names. Two of the men 



