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meet with a hardshell Baptist who is not amenable to reason, isn't 

 it in the power of the Board of Health then to take action as a sani- 

 tary measure? 



Mr. Jackson : I presume it would be. We will meet that condi- 

 tion when it comes. There might be different ways of meeting it 

 which would not necessitate its handling by the health board at all. 



Mr. Alfred Gaskill : Mr. President, may I ask Mr. Jackson 

 if he can form any estimate of the money value of this cooperation 

 that the Essex County Commission has received? What I want to 

 arrive at is some measure of the value of this extra-official work. 

 It seems to me that the Essex and the Bergen County commissions, 

 according to their reports', have struck out on a line which heretofore 

 has not been followed to any extent, and to my mind it has more of 

 value in it than any other effort, except, of course, the original un- 

 dertaking of the county work. You usually can get a 50-50 arrange- 

 ment after a while — not at once — in any proposition of this kind. It 

 is clearly on a basis of cooperation that your best results are secured ; 

 because it is not only the money you get out of it, that is important, 

 it is the evidence that these people believe in the value of the work ; 

 and the fact of their contribution disseminates the knowledge of it 

 and contributes progressively toward upholding the value of the 

 movement altogether. I want to emphasize that point, and if we can 

 boil it down to dollars it helps to give a concrete factor, some sort 

 of a measure of the value of the effort. How much in addition to 

 your appropriation can you claim through this cooperative work? 



Mr. Jackson : Personally, I cannot say, but Mr. Manchee will 

 answer your question. 



Mr. LePrince : I would like to ask whether or not you make this 

 arrangement personally ? 



Mr, Jackson : No, we make it as a body. We have a form let- 

 ter that we send out to these gentlemen after we have procured the 

 evidence, inviting them to fix the time to come to our hall or our 

 meeting room and talk the matter over. Then we lay down the law 

 to them in a friendly, smiling way ; and if there is any argument we 

 generally come out ahead. It results in what I have reported ; there 

 has not been one instance of anybody's refusal, and there have been 

 large expenditures of money. 



Mr. LePrince: My point is the cost. I have very readily drawn 

 men into this mosquito work, and I find some men are very success- 

 ful, particularly adapted to doing this class of work, and other men 



