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tory in 1919, considering some of the abnormal conditions that pre- 

 vailed during the season, was good. 



There were only two periods during the summer that mosquitoes 

 were troublesome or caused any annoyance. Early in May a brood 

 of salt-marsh cant\a\tor came into our county and gave us considerable 

 annoyance up to the first of June, but from that date to August 

 first we were practically free from mosquito annoyance. Excessive 

 rainfall toward the latter part of July was the cause of flooded 

 conditions that created large areas of sheet-water pools. This 

 condition, as we expected, increased breeding to a large extent, but 

 by having our oiling force work overtime, breeding was kept down 

 to a point where very little annoyance was felt, except during a few 

 nights in August. 



Normal weather conditions during September, with a somewhat 

 lo'w temperature, helped us to finish the season's work with good 

 results for the year 1919. 



Morris County 



Stephen C. Griffith, Secretary, Morristown 



I personally act only as secretary to the commission, which is in 

 its infancy, as you are aware. Last year four members of the com- 

 mission were here. They all went home saying that they had learned 

 more than they ever expected to know about mosquitoes and started 

 in in April with a campaign to do more work than ever. Through 

 the kindness of Dr. Headlee, we secured Mr. Chandler as superin- 

 tendent, in April. Our appropriation for the year amounted to only 

 $3,000, which meant we could do very little work of a permanent 

 nature. Our mosquito problem in Morris County is entirely that of 

 stagnant pools ; we have no salt marsh. We launched a campaign of 

 publicity throughout the county and picked out the city of Morris- 

 town as a place to do some practical mosquito-control work of a 

 temporary nature. We located and oiled pools in the vicinity of the 

 town and inside of the town limits, and did some very good work, 

 we believe, until the serious rains of the summer used up all of our 

 money. It seemed that we would just about get our pools oiled when 

 a new rainstorm would start in and counteract all the work that had 

 been done. About the fifteenth of August we had used up all of the 

 appropriation, so had to shut down. After that we had some very 

 bad mosquito times. 



