24 N. J. Mosquito Extermination Association 



July and throughout August — due principally to the conditions on 

 the Frank Creek section. The Base Hospital at Laurel Hill, the 

 Port of Embarkation at Hoboken, Shipyards, and Quarterrnaster's 

 Department, situated in Hudson County, were at no time so an- 

 .noyed as to be compelled to use precautionary methods of pro- 

 tection. Jersey City and Hoboken were practically free of mos- 

 quitoes throughout the season. Sections of South Bergen were 

 troubled for a short period during August, due chiefly to the fact 

 that we trifled with the fresh water problem on account of the 

 shortage of help. The Port of Embarkation at Hoboken people 

 assure us that the sleeping quarters were unprotected throughout 

 the season and no trouble was experienced. 



From observation and the assurances of citizens, including the 

 Mayor of the City, we can safely say that Bayonne was never 

 so free from mosquitoes as during the past season. 



The predominating mosquitoes in the County were Culex pipiens, 

 Aedes cantator, Aedes sollicitans, and Aedes perturbans. The 

 County was practically free from Anopheles punctipennis (malarial 

 mosquitoes), only one specimen being found throughout the season. 



Notwithstanding the high cost of labor and material, our per 

 capita tax for the entire season's work amounted to 4.4c ; cost per 

 square mile, $489.00; cost per $1,000.00 of ratables, 4.7c. The 

 attitude of the people toward mosquito elimination work in Hudson 

 County is, we think, reflected in the fact that the appropriation al- 

 lowed the Commission for the 1919 season is greater than that 

 of any previous year, and the attitude of the press is reflected in 

 the following editorial remarks in the Jersey Journal of January 13, 

 in commenting on the present meeting of this association : 



''The fact that Surgeon-General Blue of the United States Public 

 Health Service will report on mosquito conditions about the ship- 

 yards and cantonments at the sixth annual convention of the New 

 Jersey Mosquito Extermination Association at Atlantic City next 

 month calls attention to the progress that war on the mosquito has 

 made in this vState. Most of us, who congratulate ourselves each 

 year on the rapidity with which the summer pest is dying off, prob- 

 ably imagine that in its early days the mosquito extermination idea 

 was hailed with glad shouts and encouraging cheers. Instead, those 

 behind the early plan were ridiculed and abused, and charges were 

 made that mosquito exterminators were being named merely to 



