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side lof the Hackensack River. The species predominating in num- 

 bers were pipiens, cantadors, sollicitmis, saUnarius, in the order given. 



We are glad to^ be able to state that Hudson County was again 

 entirely free from Anopholcs throughout the season, and we learn 

 from the county board of health that there were no cases of malaria 

 reported throughout the county. 



Our per capita tax for the season was 5.7 cents and the cost per 

 $1,000 of ratables was 5.9 cents. 



Mr. LePrince: The question of figuring on maintenance is in- 

 teresting to all of us. That six cents per capita interests me par- 

 ticularly. I would just like to state that the people at Helena, Ar- 

 kansas, decided that they were not going to have any maintenance 

 costs. The town has a population of 30,000. They issued bonds for 

 $160,000 to concrete every ditch in town and do away with the 

 maintenance cost. Just how they are going to handle the house 

 problem I am not able to state, but at West Point, Mississippi, every 

 Saturday morning at nine o'clock the fire whistle blows for thirty 

 minutes as a signal for everybody to look through their back yards 

 and see what is doing there. 



Mr. Gaskill : Does the fire whistle do all the work, Mr. Le- 

 Prince ? 



Mr. LePrince : It does not. The women of the town see that the 

 children get busy. 



Bergen County 



Lewis W. Brown, Englczvood 



As we look back on the work of last summer, we cannot, I regret 

 to say, designate it as the most successful we have ever had in Bergen 

 County. I do not mean to imply by that, that work in our county 

 went back or even stood still. As a matter of fact, we worked 

 harder and accomplished as much as if not more than in any previous 

 summer. But we got a slow start, because practically all our ex- 

 perienced men were in the government service and did not secure 

 their release until late in the spring or in some cases until mid-sum- 

 mer. Then when we finally did get thoroughly organized it started 

 to rain and kept on raining until our radiant hope became decidedly 

 dampened. During July and August six inches of abnormal rain 

 fell. This created a situation which we could not expand our re- 

 sources to meet. And just to make things more interesting for us, at 



