Proceedings of Seventh Annual Meeting 



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Lay frequently renovated. Especially is it true that the last item 

 presents the greatest difficulty, as no one has yet given a practical 

 and permanent solution. 



It would seem that nothing short of a continuous performance will 

 keep the mosquito under control. The providers of the wherewithal 

 to carry on the work, together with all who are interested and af- 

 fected, will find that the appropriations will come under the "as it 

 was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be" class, and settle down 

 to continuously providing ways and means. 



For the season immediately ahead the "act of God," as termed by 

 the legal fraternity, will consume the major portion of the so-called 

 "unusual and enormous appropriation," as storms like the one now 

 raging necessitates cleaning and repairing in nearly all the territory 

 drained. 



The $15,000 as placed at the disposal of the Cape May County 

 Commission is another evidence of continuous importunity, and "the 

 constant plugging of every blooming soul." 



Keep at it. Remember that one more day would have overcome 

 Gallipoli and the Dardanelles, and "darkness is followed by dawn." 



Summary of the State and County Work 



Thomas J. Headlee, Ph. D. 



At the outset I should like to say that in the course of something 

 like seven years' experience in anti-mosquito work in this state, 

 supplemented by a reasonable familiarity with various efforts of the 

 kind in adjacent states and to a less extent throughout the country, 

 I have seen no more efficient organization for mosquito control 

 than the one which is now operating in our own state. The point 

 in which we differ rather widely from other large organizations doing 

 similar work is in the part played by the local units — the county 

 mosquito extermination commissions. At this point, for the sake of 

 some in the audience who may not be familiar with our type of or- 

 ganization, it should be said that the county mosquito extermination 

 commissions are correlated and assisted in their activities by the 

 State Experiment Station and that the relationship established is both 

 essential and effective. The director of the station is charged with 

 the duty of passing annually upon a statement of the plans, methods 

 and estimates for each county mosquito extermination commission, 

 and the county commission has the right to call upon the director for 

 assistance in the way of advice and information relative to its work. 



