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work, which can hardly be gotten from certain Annual Reports, 

 because of the more or less mixed-up way in which the Treas- 

 urers' reports are tabulated. A public official in another part of 

 the United States, reading some of these Treasurers' Reports, 

 could gain no idea of the distribution of the various sums of 

 money which are spent in the county. By keeping in mind the 

 purpose of an Annual Report, which is really to report and not 

 to cover up, much better results will be obtaned. 



The matter of exhibits at Industrial or Agricultural affairs 

 might be mentioned also. At a small cost, and in the winter time, 

 during the slack season, these exhibits can be worked up, and 

 provided the attendance at such affairs is sufficient, the exhibits 

 furnish good mediums for publicity. 



Certain sections of the State are also particularly well fitted 

 for publicity by means of signs or billboards. The flat stretches 

 of salt marsh in North Jersey are crossed by hundreds of thou- 

 sands of commuters going into New York every day, and offer 

 a splendid means of advertising the work of the Commissions. 

 The stretch of salt marsh between Atlantic City and Pleasant- 

 ville, and behind some of the Cape May and O'cean County resorts 

 could be utilized in the same manner, to put up a few billboards, 

 either with the purpose of education or of securing favorable 

 public attention. 



The question comes up. Has publicity work been overdone ? I 

 do not think so. There are thousands of people in any county 

 yet, who do not have the slightest idea as to the ways in which 

 mosquitoes are breeding, the places they are coming from, or the 

 work which is being carried on to get rid of them. The very fact 

 that so many thousands of rain barrels and other unnecessary 

 mosquito breeding places are found each year by the inspection 

 force of the Commissions, and not all of these, by any means, in 

 backyards of the poor and less educated people, shows that more 

 educational publicity is needed, while the fact that for almost 

 every winter since the organization of the Commissions we have 

 had to fight uninformed and unintelligent legislation aimed against 

 the mosquito work in Trenton, shows that we have not gotten, as 



