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not have them for mosquitoes, we have them to keep the flies away 

 which are bound to come around while our neighbors, some have 

 horses and some have cows, and we get the flies, and keep screens 

 up for the purpose of keeping the flies out of the way. That is about 

 all. My family and my wife have a great antipathy to flies. If one 

 gets in the house she is after it. 



Mr. Hull: I would Hke to say at this time that I think Dr. 

 Headlee has hit the nail on the head. From my own personal exper- 

 ience I believe that one man in any community who can be interested 

 in the mosquito question where it has become a nuisance can abso- 

 lutely convert that community to an anti-mosquito campaign. I 

 think Metuchen is a fair example of what can be done. The people 

 there are willing to do anything that is asked in the way of anti- 

 mosquito work, and I think that is true of almost any community of 

 its size and character in the State of New Jersey. 



President Rider: We have one number on the program that 

 has not been completed, and that is, "Control of Malaria in Health 

 Administration," by David C. Bowen, Chief of Bureau of Local 

 Health Administration, State Board of Health. 



Mr. David C. Bowen : Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen : 



Control of Malaria in Public Health Administration 



By D. C. Bowen 



Chief, Bureau of Local Health Administration of the 

 State Department of Health of the State of New Jersey 



It was with considerable hesitancy that I consented to present at 

 this meeting the subject that has been assigned to me. The reason 

 for this was twofold. First, this association includes among its 

 members men who are experts in everything that pertains to the 

 winged insects for which New Jersey has been famous, or, more 

 correctly speaking, notorious, in years gone by. Happily, however, 

 the work that has thus far been accomplished by the able and earnest 

 workers that have been identified with mosquito extermination in 

 New Jersey has already done much to change the conditions which 

 at one time justified these appellations, and this work, if continued, 

 promises to make New Jersey one of the first states in the Union 

 where the mosquito need not be considered when selecting a site 

 upon which to build a home, or when deciding upon a place to spend 

 a summer vacation in peace and comfort and without fear of con- 

 tracting malaria. Second, I have never quite recovered from the 



