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Chairman Brinkkrhoi^f — Now we will go back, and Mr. 

 Engle will represent Ocean County. 



Status of Mosquito Control Work in Ocean County. 



BY MR. ROBERT I^. PRESIDE^NT 01^ THE) OCKAN COUNTY 



MOSQUITO KXTe:rMINATION COMMISSION. 



Mr. Chairman and gentlemen. I am very glad to say that as 

 a representative of Ocean County I have a very different story 

 to tell than I had to tell last year. Some of you may remember 

 that prior to last year we had difficulty in getting our Board of 

 Freeholders to even vote on the $3,000 appropriation tO' clean 

 out the ditches that the State had dug for us. We finally did 

 that, and it is the report of that work, the expenditure of that 

 money, that I gave you last year. 



This year, showing how the sentiment has changed, in Janu- 

 ary the Board of Freeholders, without asking, put in their budget 

 an appropriation of $4,000. Later we came down to this Con- 

 vention, and from the inspiration gained here and the hearing 

 of the work that others had done, went back with the idea that 

 we should make an effort to get still more money. We felt that 

 while $4,0001 perhaps was enough to clean out and take care 

 of the ditching systems as already constituted, we would never 

 get for Ocean County any new work if we did not get some 

 more money. 



On those lines we approached the Board of Freeholders and 

 pleaded with them, explained the situation ; and, to make a long- 

 story short, we got another appropriation of $6,000, making 

 $10,000 in all to spend in our county during the last year. 



Now, we commenced work in May. In Ocean County we 

 have a million and a half feet of ditches, around about 290 miles. 

 It seems to me it sounds a great deal better, a good deal bigger, 

 to say so many miles of ditches. So remember that it is 290 

 miles we had in the county last year to undertake to clean. These 

 ditches were cleaned out at a cost not exceeding $1,000. The 

 fact of the matter is, it is considerably less than that. But a 

 good deal of new work was done in connection with the clean- 



