ii8 Proceedings Ninth Annual Meeting 



On the Maiiasquan side of the river in Monmouth County, 

 investigation revealed that the sheet water had disappeared 

 through the ditches after the Inlet had been opened up. No 

 larvae were discovered. 



This is the largest brood this section has had since the com- 

 mission organized in 19 14. These mosquitoes gradually worked 

 their way up the coast as far north as Seabright. 



This annoyance lasted about three weeks. 



The Ocean County Mosquito Commission was at once notified 

 and they quickly installed many supplementary ditches to drain 

 this section, and by so doing has prevented any such mosquito 

 annoyance occurring again from this area. 



This could have not occurred at a more critical time of the 

 season, as the largest number of officers and soldiers was sta- 

 tioned at the camp at the time, and the largest number of citizens 

 from all parts of the state, including many state officers and 

 legislators, were visitors at the camp during this mosquito an-' 

 noying period. 



It was but natural that the anti-mosquito work of the county 

 was criticized, due to this onslaught of mosquitoes, and for a 

 long time it required considerable effort to explain the primary 

 cause of this disturbance, which of course was due to the closing 

 up of the Inlet. 



On the other hand the closing up of the Inlet may react on 

 the minds of those officials who have the power of making suffi- 

 cient appropriations for mosquito control work in the state 

 and county. Many of them suffered personally from the irrita- 

 tions and annoyances of these pests while on their annual visit 

 to Camp Edwards. 



Let us hope that more liberal appropriations will be received 

 for anti-mosquito work than have been in the past. 



President Meyers — Ocean County's paper will be read by 

 Dr. Frank P. Brouwer, member of the Ocean County Com- 

 mission. 



Mr. Engle — Mr. Chairman, Dr. Brouwer was appointed to 

 tell you about Ocean County, but one of his fellow-physicians 

 advised him not to expose his voice in public for some reason or 

 other, so I will tell what little there is. I feel that the story 

 of Ocean County's work for the past year is like a drug-store 

 mustard plaster — there is not much to it. We saw our job and 

 ''done" it so far as we knew how. The epitaph on the tombstone 

 out west — -"We have done our damnedest, the angels couldn't 

 have done any l>etter" — is appropriate in our case. When we 



