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city, occupying many square miles, so that we have a problem 

 that is similar to some of the salt-marsh conditions on the Atlantic 

 Coast. This work has been undertaken in a small way by a 

 commercial organization that has selected a committee of men 

 from among its members. This committee, of which I am chair- 

 man, is called the Mosquito Elimination Committee of the Toledo 

 Commerce Club, and we have the backing O'f this club, which is 

 an important organization in Toledo. The club has advanced 

 the funds for carrying on a survey, and all the work that has 

 been done has been paid out of the funds of this organization. 

 We have received nothing from private subscription, and we 

 are in a way reticent about accepting money obtained by private 

 subscription, because we feel that this work is a community 

 problem and should be assessed upon the property owners, and 

 we feel in that way we are going to get legislation enacted 

 whereby we will be able to assess the cost of this work, one part 

 upon the city, one part upon the State, and one part upon the 

 property owners. We feel that this legislation will come this 

 summer, after which the appropriation will be made and a 

 commission formed on the same basis that you have formed 

 yours in New Jersey. 



Preside NT Darnal,!,^ — We have labored in New Jersey for 

 some years under the stigma of furnishing all the mosquitoes to 

 New^ York City, so that it is more or less satisfaction to have a 

 New Yorker come and say that they really have some mosquitoes 

 of their own, that it was not all our fault. So I am going to 

 ask Mr. Maurer, of Suffolk County, Long Island, to say just 

 a word. 



Mr. Maurer — Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I am a member 

 of the Executive Committee of the Suffolk and Nassau County 

 Mosquito Extermination Committee, which was organized a 

 couple of years ago, and it was my fortune to be closely identified 

 with the educational movement that followed its formation. 



The result of that campaign has been the creation of the Nas- 

 sau County Mosquito Extermination Committee, the result of 

 whose work you have heard of in the paper read by Mr. Adams. 



