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centers abated, our steady force of inspectors ceaselessly going 

 their rounds, searching out breeding places and teaching the 

 people the way of salvation — all of these seem simple achieve- 

 ments as we view the completed task. 



Our Association, made up of the men who have brought 

 about these things, should be proud of their handiwork. The 

 State, I say it with all humility, should be thankful that among 

 its citizens those have been found who, with a full conscious- 

 ness of their civic duty, have so generously given of 'their time 

 and energy. 



We await with confidence that time in the near future when 

 our work shall have been crowned with success, and we shall 

 all be glad to have done our part in this baffling contest with 

 nature. 



PrKSIdknt D'ARNiAi^i, — ^Gentlemen, when a delegate comes all 

 the way from a western city to New Jersey to attend our conven- 

 tion I think we ought to give him a hearing as a matter of testify- 

 ing our real interest in the work which he represents. I hope 

 that Dr. Ramsay, of Toledo, Ohio, will tell us of the progress of 

 mosquito extermination in his part of the country. 



Dr. Ramsay — ^Mr. Plresident and gentlemen, I do feel that 

 I want to thank you all for the reception that I have had here in 

 last year's meeting and this year's meeting, and I hope that I 

 will again receive an invitation to attend your meeting the coming 

 year. At that time I hope that I shall have something worth 

 while to present. I have heard a good bit from you as to the 

 things accomplished. In Toledo we have not accomplished much 

 as yet, but we have accomplished a good bit of educational work 

 and we are getting public sentiment to back us up so that we 

 know that in this coming year we are going tO' get the necessary 

 funds to carry on our work which has been so carefully planned 

 and laid out. 



Toledo is probably one of the worst mosquito-infested cities 

 in the middle west, on account of its geographical situation, at 

 the extreme end of Lake Erie, and built primarily upon marsh 

 land. We have a lot of fresh-water marshes surrounding the 



