Proceedings of Sixth Annual Meeting 



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SECOND SESSION, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 7 



Symposium on Mosquito Control. Contributions from the Com- 

 mission of Each County Engaged in Control Work. 



(The meeting was called to order at 10:15 a. m., by President 

 Engle.) 



President Engle: The meeting will please come to order. We 

 have a good many papers here and a certain amount of discussion 

 about each one, I presume, and we would like to give everybody 

 a chance to be heard, so it is necessary for us to commence, I 

 think, right away. 



The morning session will consist of contributions on mosquito 

 work from the territory represented by various members of the 

 commjissions that have been doing mosquito work, and the points 

 we would like to cover are: 



(1) State of work at the beginning of the present season; (2) 

 the work accomplished this year; (3) particular difficulties met and 

 overcome; (4) cost of this year's operations; (5) results of present 

 year's work and the attitude of the people towards it; (6) plans for 

 future work. 



It will be best, I think, to limit these papers to ten minutes. It will 

 take probably two hours to go through it at that rate. So when the 

 ten minutes is up the Chair will call attention to the fact, so that the 

 time can be as nearly observed as possible. 



We will hear first from Hudson County, a paper prepared by 

 Mr. William Delaney, Superintendent, of Jersey City, but which will 

 be read by Dr. Brinkerhofif. 



Dr. Brinkerhoff: Owing to the condition of Mr. Delaney's 

 health, it has been requested that I should read this paper. 



Hudson County 



BY WILLIAM DELANEY. SUPERINTENDENT, HUDSON COUNTY 



The state of the work at the beginning of the past season,, and the 

 conditions found in Hudson county at that time were, to say the 

 least, not very encouraging. We had, to be sure, previously com- 

 pleted about eighty per cent of the ditching necessary for adequate 

 drainage. A considerable portion of' this, however, or about thirty 

 thousand feet of stump-lot ditches thirty inches wide on the Kearney 



