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Status of Mosquito Control Work in Cape May County, 



BY MR. JUIvIAN MIIvIvER, CHIE^ INSPECTOR THE CAPE MAY 



COUNTY MOSQUITO EXTERMINATION COMMISSION. 



Mr. MiuuER — Mr. Chairman and gentlemen : I am sorry that 

 Mr. Camp is not here this afternoon. He has stood before you 

 the last two years, and told you what the Cape May Commission 

 hoped to do, and I know he would be gratified to stand here this 

 afternoon and tell you what it has done. But he has been kept 

 away by the bad weather, and I will try to tell you what they 

 have done. Ten thousand dollars was given by the Cape May 

 County Board of Freeholders on the first of Mjay of 191 6, which 

 was the first real appropriation they had had. Five hundred 

 dollars was appropriated in 191 5, but, of course, could not be 

 used for any extermination work. Mr. C. S. Beck with was put 

 in charge of the work in Cape May and carried it through until 

 the first of last October. The salt-marsh problem in Cape May 

 County is divided into two parts, the bay side meadow and the 

 meadow between the beach front and the mainland. On the bay 

 side the problem is a peculiar one from the fact that outlet 

 streams are choked up with sand. Every time a storm comes 

 along on the bay side the mouths of a stream which may have be- 

 come partially opened are closed up, and the meadows which they 

 are supposed to drain left full of water. 



We have endeavored to solve that problem in Pond Creek 

 meadow, which is the southernmost of those bayside marshes, 

 by putting a 30-inch terra cotta pipe line through the beach and 

 ending with 12 feet of iron pipe on the outside. On the inside 

 of this Hne we placed a tide-gate, which is supposed to l:eep the 

 high tides out. We have this work under contract, and as the 

 contract is not yet completed, I cannot report on the efficiency. 



The Commission has also put in 300,000 feet of 10 x 30-inch 

 ditch by contract this summer, at a price of 1.55 cents a foot. 

 The prospects of the work are bright. 



In addition to the work that the Commission has done this 

 year, the State has put in 200,000 feet in the vicinity of Ocean 

 City, and intends to put in 100,000 feet more. 



