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Exterminataon Association to be held in the Rose Room of the Hotel 

 Traymore, on January 25th and 26th, I would state that I regret it will be 

 impossible for the Mayor to be present as he is out of town, touring the 

 South, and will not return home until the early part of next month. 



Very truly yours, 



(Signed) Louis Lippman, 



Secretary to the Mayor. 



TELEGRAM. 



Washington, D. C, January 25, 1917. 



Dr. Thomas J. Headlee, 



Hotel Traymore, Atlantic City, N. J. 

 I would urge upon the Association the desirability of doing as much 

 drainage work as possible looking to the decrease of the mosquito. I would 

 urge this both from a sanitary and commercial point of view. 



W. C. GORGAS, 



Surgeon-General, U. S. Army. 



President Darnali, — When we realize, ladies and geritle- 

 men, that four years ago this association had its birth, and at 

 that time it was a little body of men who were beginning to 

 wake up to the importance of mosquito control, it was made 

 up of a few of the more energetic members of the mosquito 

 commission and a few others. In four years' time this organ- 

 ization has grown to a State-wide organization, which is attested 

 by the fact of this large audience here to-night. Its member- 

 ship is free to all; its m.embership is open to every citizen of 

 the State of New Jersey who is interested in the work, without 

 dues or without assessment. Within four years' time this 

 organization has come tO' include many hundreds of men and 

 women. We are gratified to know that U. S. Government 

 has felt the movement to be of sufficient importance to detail 

 one of its foremost medical experts for the purpose of inform- 

 ing us in the progress made in the South in the prevention of 

 malaria through the suppression of the mosquitoes which carry 

 that disease. It gives me exceptional pleasure to introduce to 

 you Dr. Henry R. Carter, of the United States Public Health 

 Service, who will talk to you on malaria. 



