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N. J. Mosquito Extermination Association 



Somebody said tonig^ht in the hotel, "You will have everybody 

 scratching in this hotel tonight." I said, "That is just what we 

 are here for." If we can get everybody scratching in this hotel 

 tonight and they can get all their friends scratching, pretty soon 

 there will be no occasion to scratch, for there will be no mosquitoes ; 

 and that is just exactly what we are here for. 



The first evening will be spent in listening to a description of 

 "Mosquito Control about Cantonments and Shipyards." We hoped 

 to have Dr. Blue with us tonight, the Surgeon General of the United 

 States Public Health Service, but he is a man very much in demand, 

 and we cannot always get him when we want him. He has, however, 

 sent a very efficient substitute, a gentleman connected with his De- 

 partment, who, he says, will tell the story just as well as he can 

 tell it — Mr. LePrince, who will address you. Mr. LePrince had 

 charge of mosquito work under General Gorgas at Havana, and 

 later in Panama, and to him, to a very considerable extent, belongs 

 the credit for the most excellent and efficient work done at those 

 points. During the war he served the U. S. Public Health Ser- 

 vice as agent in charge of the mosquito work about camps, munition 

 depots and plants, and shipyards. He brings to us tonight the 

 most complete information along these lines that is to be found 

 in the United States today. The association is indeed fortunate 

 in having the opportunity to hear Mr. LePrince. 



