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collected by law in each county; (8) the total amount of money 

 collected by each commission to and including 1918; and (9) any 

 and all other data which, in the judgment of the committee, may re- 

 late to or seem pertinent to the above matters; further, (10) the 

 number and names of the counties in the state in which the law has 

 not been enforced to and including 1918; (11) the number of in- 

 habitants and the assessed valuation of such counties; (12) the 

 counties in which commissioners may or may not have been ap- 

 pointed, giving names and terms of office of such commissioners ; 

 (13) what efforts, if any, have been made to enforce the law in 

 such county or counties; (13) the result and any and all other data 

 which, in the judgment of the committee, may relate to or seem per- 

 tinent to such matters ; and to submit the results of sucli investiga- 

 tions to all the active mosquito commissions within the state on or 

 before the first day of October, 1919, and further to submit a dupli- 

 cate of such report at the next annual meeting of this association. 



The Executive Committee, in accordance with the authorization 

 in the resolution above referred to, authorized the secretary of the 

 association to gather the facts requested and prepare a report upon 

 the same. The secretary in turn authorized his assistant, Dr. Mitchel 

 Carroll, to undertake this work. The data forms were prepared by 

 him and the report which was transmitted in accordance with the 

 resolution also was prepared by him ; but the statistics were furnished 

 by the superintendents or secretaries of the various commissions. A 

 summary of the data is given in tables i, 2 and 3, which are appended 

 hereto. 



Thus there are at the present time 1 1 counties actively engaged in 

 mosquito-control work and 10 inactive counties. The counties which 

 are carrying out to some extent the provisions of Chapter 104, Laws 

 of 1912, are: Hudson, Bergen, Essex, Union, Middlesex, Mon- 

 mouth, Ocean, Atlantic, Cape May, Passaic and Morris. The in- 

 active counties are : Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, 

 Hunterdon, Mercer, Salem, Somerset, Sussex and Warren. The 

 active counties represent 47 per cent of the state's area, 76 per cent 

 of its population and 82 per cent of the total ratables. 



Between 1912, when the act creating the county commissions was 

 passed, and 1919 the commissions expended on mosquito-control 

 work a total of $1,240,907. During this period the state spent ap- 

 proximately $99,800 for the same purpose. 



