Proceedings of Sixth Annual Meeting 



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South of this point we come to the coastal end of Burlington 

 County, in which there are between 9,000 and 10,000 acres of salt 

 marsh. No work whatever has been done here. The reason is 

 found in the fact that the ocean end is inhabited by very few peo- 

 ple. The active and influential people in Burlington are living 

 along the Delaware River. I am very glad to say, however, that 

 educational processes have gone on in Burlington to a point where it 

 now looks as if something might be started in the year 1920. 



Then we come to Atlantic, with an acreage of over 50,000 of 

 salt marsh. An enormous amount of work has been done. A 

 large percentage of the acreage has been drained and a great deal 

 of freedom has been given to the people living along the coast, 

 with a considerable amount of freedom in the back country. 



Then we come to Cape May, with an area of 53,000 acres of 

 salt marsh. The effort in Cape May is spent entirely upon the salt 

 marsh. Cape May has made good progress. The work has been 

 done in the southern part of the county. Cape May City, Cape 

 May Point and various other towns and boroughs in that section 

 have obtained a large measure of protection as a result of that 

 work. 



Then we come to Cumberland, with over 50,000 acres of salt 

 marsh, in which no local work whatever has been done. I am glad 

 to say that educational processes in Cumberland have gone to the 

 point that it now looks likely as if work might be started there in 

 1920. 



Then we come to Salem, with something like 35,000 acres of 

 salt marsh, in which no work of a mosquito character has ever been 

 done. And educational processes in Salem County have not gone 

 as far as those in Cumberland. It looks to me as if the work would 

 not start in 1920, but might do so in 1921. 



The remaining counties of the state may be designated as inland 

 counties, where the salt marsh mosquito problem does not exist, 

 and where the fresh water mosquito is the sole problem. At one 

 point will be found a reasonably severe mosquito problem, while at 

 another point, a few miles away there will be no mosquitO' problem 

 which the citizens will consider worthy of attention. 



In the inland counties of the State we do not have a county-wide 

 mosquito problem. To my mind that is the reason why it is dif- 

 ficult to organize united mosquito sentiment. 



President Engle: Unless there is something very important 

 to come before us now we will adjourn until two o'clock. 



