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crime of which it has since been convicted and sentenced to banish- 

 ment from inhabited areas. 



At the risk of repeating what many of you have already read, I 

 quote the following short paragraphs from the report to which allus- 

 ion has already been made; namely, the report of the New Jersey 

 State Health Commission : 



''The fever, however, from which our state is common with other 

 middle states, chiefly suffers, is that known as miasmatic, embracing 

 the various forms of intermittent, or chills and fever so called, remit- 

 tent, bilious, etc. It probably, more than any other one disease, 

 interferes with our productive labor, and is not only like an epidemic 

 but resident, inflicting an annual tax upon the industrial resources 

 of our state, and upon the comfort of its citizens. 



'Tn a review of the state medical records of the New Jersey So- 

 ciety for the last fifteen years, we find such statements as these : 



In Warren County, the report says : 'Intermittent and remittent 

 fevers have long formed a staple portion of the diseases of the 

 Valley of Paulus Kill' 



"The report of 1871, referring to another part of the county, says 

 intermittent and remittent fevers prevail so extensively through the 

 summer and autumn, that they may almost be said to have become 

 epidemic. 



"In Hunterdon County, the reporter, speaking of his district, says : 

 'All diseases, among the inhabitants, are more or less influenced by 

 marsh miasmata.' 



"In Sussex County, the report for 1871 speaks of intermittents 

 and remittents, as everywhere more common. 



"The report for 1873 of Bergen County, says intermittents and 

 other forms of malarial disease, prevail to a considerable extent. 



"The Hudson County report says (1872) : Malarial diseases seem 

 to become more prevalent each year. The report for 1873 says 'We 

 shall always have remittent and intermittent fevers, and all those 

 insidious and indefinable forms of ill, resulting from miasm, so long 

 as the vast tracts of marsh land, seen in the county, remain unim- 

 proved, or on a tide level.' 



"Dr. Culver says : 'It is the ever prevalent fever throughout the 

 county.' In Passaic county, the report for 1873 says : 'Intermittent 

 fever continues to prevail in their due seasons.' 



"In Essex County, Newark has at times suffered greatly from 

 miasmatic fevers and dysentery. Reports in different years refer 



