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city they will see to it that the work is maintained until the per- 

 manent reclamation of the marshes renders such work unneces- 

 sary. 



SUMMARY. 



Ditches dug in Greater New York since 1905, salt marsh and 

 inland swamps, amount to 10,510,514 linear feet. Acres drained, 

 ^3>575- Cost to owners, drainage and fills, $592,970.68; cost 

 to city, $242,981.35; total cost to city and owners, $835,952.03. 



Work is being continued. One contract already let calls for 

 1,000,000 feet and other contracts will be let as was before 

 mentioned. The work, it is hoped, will be maintained, and I 

 expect to devote much time to eliminating inland breeding places 

 as well, so that in the entire city a mosquito will be a curiosity. 

 Fortunately this will be possible, for our neighbors on the north, 

 east and west are giving us hearty co-operation. You of Jersey 

 are doing your part on the meadows across the river, Westchester 

 County is doing good work, and the large amount of work re- 

 cently done in Nassau County will be of inestimable benefit. 



Pre:sident Darnai^i, — It is with particular pleasure that I 

 introduce the next speaker. It is rare that on a proposition of 

 this sort a man oi large affairs, of large influence, of large busi- 

 ness interests, is unselfish enough tO' give his time as a matter 

 of public service for the benefit of humanity, to deal with a pest 

 like this. I am told that Mr. Adams spends half of his time 

 making the Postal Telegraph Company more efficient, and that 

 he spends almost the other half of it attending to mosquito work. 

 I take great pleasure in introducing Mr. Adams, a member of 

 the Nassau County Mosquito Commission. 



Mosquito Control Work in Nassau County, L. I., N. Y. 



BY C. C. ADAMS, MEMBER 01^ THE NASSAU COUNTY MOSQUITO 

 KXTERMINATION COMMISSION, I^AWRENCK, N. Y. 



To the Members of the New Jersey Mosquito Extermination 

 Association. Gentlemen. 



In speaking of the Nassau County (Long Island) Mosquito 

 Extermination Commission, of which I am a member, and the 



