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praise was given when deserved. One of our papers, the Passaic 

 News, lately discussed former and present conditions as follows : 



^'Like almost everything else that is new, mosquito control 

 has been compelled to demonstrate its feasibility in the face of 

 widespread criticism and ridicule. In our own county voices of 

 officials, private citizens and newspapers have been raised against 

 the expenditures ordered by the State for the extermination 

 work. It is significant, however, that the protests have de- 

 creased from year to year, and that co-operation of the public 

 with the county commission has improved correspondingly. 

 Strangely stilled, during the first month of summer, have been 

 the voices of those perennial critics of mosquito extermination. 

 The answer is self-evident. Mosquito extermination, or, more 

 properly, mosquito control, has begun to prove its practicability 

 as practiced in New Jersey, and the skeptics have begun to be- 

 lieve. The weather, undoubtedly, has been responsible to some 

 extent for the relief afforded, but the secret of the improved con- 

 ditions lies in the fact that the mosquito commissions in Passaic, 

 Bergen and neighboring counties have materially reduced breed- 

 ing of the insects. Passaic can testify that the mosquito pest is 

 light this year in comparison with former seasons. We have 

 fewer of the home variety, and the foreign species, the mos- 

 quitoes of the salt marshes, which do migrate great distances, 

 have not troubled as yet. We may have them during periods of 

 steady winds blowing from the meadows, but the nuisance will 

 be slig'ht as compared with the all-summer suffering which has 

 been caused in the past by heavy breeding of the native pest. It 

 has been possible, during the evenings of the present summer, 

 to take enjoyment in rest and recreation out of doors, with com- 

 paratively little annoyance from mosquitoes." 



As youi know we have no marsh lands to contend with in our 

 county, and aside from the problems presented b}'^ the Passaic 

 River, we are confined entirely to ''upland" work. 



Up to the present time we have operated entirely within the 

 cities of Paterson and Passaic, the populous township of Ac- 

 quackanonk and the thickly settled boroughs which surround -the 

 two cities. It is intended, however, to extend our work and 



