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N. J. Mosquito Extermination Association 



The Attitude and Part of the Chambers of Commerce and the 



Boards of Trade. 



BY S. P. LEEDS, PRESIDENT OF THE ATLANTIC CITY CHAMBER 

 OF COMMERCE. 



At the March meeting of the Atlantic City Chamber of Com- 

 merce, Mr. Alfred Gaskill came before us and explained the 

 mosquito question in its relation to New Jersey. After giving 

 a comprehensive talk on the subject, showing the great benefits 

 which would accrue to the State through mosquito extermination, 

 he solicited the aid of our association for the State in its task. 

 We agreed to this and moved to adopt a resolution, same to be 

 distributed generally throughout the State, in support of a State ap- 

 propriation of $750,000, to be paid $150,000 a year, covering a 

 period of five years. This means but one-third of a mill added 

 to state taxables. 



The resolution was as follows: 



A Declaration of Extermination. 



Adopted by the Atlantic City Chamber of Commerce and sub- 

 mitted to the Municipal Bodies, the County Boards, the Civic 

 Bodies and the Fraternal Organizations of New Jersey for approval 

 to the end that this State may be freed of a pest retarding its 

 growth. 



Whereas, The mosquito, an enemy of comfort and a menace to 

 public health in many communities, is declared, by experts in whom 

 this body has confidence, to be retarding the commercial, indus- 

 trial and agricultural development, not only of the coast counties 

 of New Jersey, but of other large areas of the State, and 



Whereas, It has been demonstrated by the experience of Atlantic 

 County that this pest can be controlled and ultimately eradicated 

 through methods of systematic extermination upon lines approved 

 by the New Jersey Mosquito Extermination Association, and 



Whereas, The Atlantic City Chamber of Commerce is con- 

 vinced that the time has come for citizens of New Jersey to insist, 

 through their State government, that the elimination of the mosquito 

 is not only a City or County, but also a State-wide proposition. 



Therefore, Be it resolved that the Atlantic City Chamber of 



