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Mr. Winship : The initial work has all been done. We simply 

 have to maintain our salt-marsh areas. 



Mr. Miller: Do you think that is enough to attend to it in 

 efficient, first-class style? 



Mr. Winship: I think so, yes. 



Mr. LePrince : I would like to ask a question. I assume that 

 in the large city a considerable portion of the breeding areas are 

 being eliminated completely by dumping operations, and I would 

 like to ask whether the City Board of Health has the power to con- 

 trol the elevation of the dumping. Can the City Board of Health 

 specify how much material is to be dumped for the elimination of 

 breeding places or can the people dump any waste material as they 

 wish ? 



Mr. Winship : No, they can't. During the summer months such 

 dumping is prohibited, unless the material is top-soil or something 

 similar. But there is a certain amount of garbage in any material 

 that is prohibited in the summer months. 



Mr. LePrince : The point I wanted is this. Assuming the streets 

 are pretty high where the dumping is carried, do they dump with a 

 view of covering the breeding places as rapidly as possible or can 

 the people make the dump fourteen feet high? 



Mr. Winship : No, the city dumps with a view of reclaiming 

 the land. 



Mr. LePrince : Taking all at the street level ? 



Mr. Winship: Yes, to get rid of the material. 



Mr. LePrince: I just want to make a point. I found that done 

 in many cities. In Mobile, for instance, they are making dumps 

 twelve or fourteen feet high, while by lowering those dumps say 

 to four or five feet high they could cover up the territory very much 

 more quickly and get rid of the breeding places of the mosquitoes at 

 far less cost. 



Secretary Headlee : Mr. Chairman, I think that Mr. Winship 

 deserves the utmost credit for the handling of the exceedingly large 

 and difficult mosquito problems as comprehended within the drain- 

 age of the City of Greater New York. Mr. Winship is one of the 

 "old war-horses" in this business. He began his mosquito work, 

 a? I understand it, in the Borough of Rumson and I suppose to that 

 extent, at least, he is a New Jersey product. 



I have been particularly interested in one phase of the mosquito 

 ])roblem in Greater New York which is sometimes designated as the 



