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you can take the case of Freehold, for instance. Only two or three 

 years ago they had an enormous outbreak of pipiens; everybody was 

 bothered and complaints came thick and fast. And the Freehold 

 people got in touch with Mr. Van Note, he came up and made a 

 study of the situation, found that the broad field of the sewage dis- 

 posal plant was the source of mosquitoes; with the result that the 

 Freehold authorities took hold of it, furnished the money necessary 

 to clean up that area, and cleaned up the town, with the final result 

 that those mosquitoes dropped out and they haven't had any infesta- 

 tion since that time. This thing moves out. It can start small and 

 it will move out. 



Now I want to make one additional point, that as the mosquito 

 work goes on in one county the results of the knowledge and the 

 results of that work filter over into the adjacent counties, and that 

 that is the most powerful agent for starting mosquito work in that 

 county. There is no other agent equal to it. I have seen this grow 

 right on this Atlantic coast, that filtering out process, and today the 

 results of the mosquito work in Atlantic and Cape May are filtering 

 over into Cumberland, but you will find Cumberland more susceptible 

 to mosquito work than Salem, which is a little further away. 



This story is not a short one. It takes a good while to do a job 

 of this sort, but we do not want to become discouraged with it. Just 

 at the time we think we have got everything in this particular county 

 cleaned up in good shape, as I have often heard members of this 

 association say, then in comes an influx of mosquitoes and everybody 

 is discouraged. That is the time to buckle on the armor and stiffen 

 our backbone and find out what the trouble is and put it out of busi- 

 ness. 



Dr. Ralph Hunt : I do not want to take up much of your time, 

 but I just want to bring this matter to your attention. There has been 

 a good deal of talk made on these papers, comparing the work done 

 in New Jersey with the work done in Havana and Panama and such 

 places. Now I think we ought to understand and the public ought 

 to understand that this proposition that we have here and the prop- 

 osition down there are entirely different things. We are dealing 

 with a different kind of mosquito. We are dealing with the. mos- 

 quito as a pest and not particularly as a disease producer, as a dis- 

 ease propagator, and we here have to get rid of all the mosquitoes, 

 because they are all varieties and they all bite ; but in those particu- 

 lar places they only have to deal with mosquitoes which were disease 

 producers; and there is some difference in the life and habits of 

 mosquitoes. 



