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plan of getting the town interested, pays. We find in most cases that 

 with a Httle persuasion, the borough councils are willing to co- 

 operate. It gives them a direct interest in and knowledge of mos- 

 quito work which they would not otherwise possess. It also gives 

 them an added incentive to maintain the ditching once it is dug. In 

 doing work on this basis the hardest contract to sign is the first one. 

 Once you get it started, each town seems anxious to do a little bit 

 better than her neighbor. During the coming season we shall do 

 more work than ever in this way and we estimate our receipts from 

 contract work at over $7,000. 



Our superintendent. Captain Leslie, gave only one illustrated 

 lecture in one high school (about 400 students) last year because 

 our publicity campaign was not launched early enough. We are 

 anticipating starting in April of this year to present illustrated lec- 

 tures throughout the high schools of the county. We find these 

 lectures on mosquito control and its relation to health and comfort 

 are received very favorably by the high-school students and we be- 

 lieve it is an excellent means of spreading propaganda throughout 

 the county. 



In this county we have 66 municipalities, no one of which has 

 more than 20,000 people. House-to-house inspection with us is there- 

 fore difficult and expensive, and it has consequently been our policy 

 to emphasis the importance of drainage. Until such time as we 

 have eliminated the many large swamps, which are found so con- 

 spicuously in all parts of Bergen County, we do not feel that we can 

 expand or extend any other branch of our work. Our swamp prob- 

 lem is our largest one and of paramount importance to the success 

 of our work. Our means have been limited and our progress pro- 

 portionately slow. Each year, however, sees us in a better position 

 to wage a winning fight and we are looking confidently into the 

 future. 



Passaic County 



David Young, Superintendent, Paterson 



In analyzing the status of mosquito-control work in Passaic County 

 for the year 1919, it is rather difficult to present the matter without 

 repeating in some way what has been said in past years. In at- 

 tempting to tell you what we accomplished in the past season, it is 

 necessary that we state to some extent what were the problems and 



