PROCEEDINGS 



OP THE 



Ninth Annual Meeting of the New Jersey Mosquito 

 Extermination Association, held at Atlantic 

 City, N. J., March 1—3, 1922 



WEDNESDAY EVENING SESSION. 



(The meeting convened at 8:30 P. M., President Charles Lee 

 Meyers presiding.) 



President MeyKrs — As President of the New Jersey Mos- 

 quito Extermination Association, I welcome you to its ninth 

 annual convention. It is an association composed of the mos- 

 quito commissions of ten counties and their staffs and over two 

 thousand members. Each commission is composed of six mem- 

 bers who receive no salaries, and who give their time and study, 

 their abilities, and their best endeavors as a matter of civic duty 

 and good citizenship. The state is to be congratulated on being 

 able to obtain the services of these men who are so successfully 

 grappling the problem they are determined to solve. 



We are met here in serious earnestness of purpose and fixed 

 determination to accomplish our object, the extermination of that 

 menace to life and health and deterrent to prosperity of our state 

 • — the mosquito — and to interchange views and by their expres- 

 sion aid each other in the gaining of our common object. 



Industrial Results of Mosquito Control. 



My grandfather, D'avid Lewis Meyers, was killed by a mos- 

 quito. He was in the early prime of his life, 40 years of age, a 

 man of exceptional vigor and talents, a descendant of the Vik- 

 ings, who he resembled in his splendid physical frame. A fine 

 education had given him the mental vigor in keeping with his 

 perfect health. He was the father of five children. On his way 

 to Denmark, he sailed from New O'rleans, and as the custom 

 was in those days, the ship sailed to the Bahamas, then to the 

 Azores, touching at various ports for fresh water and foods, as 

 well as to discharge and receive cargo. While ashore at Nassau, 

 in the Bahamas, he was bitten by a mosquito. Three days after 

 sailing from there he developed yellow fever and died, and was 



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