Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1910 — BEGINS A WAR ON MOSQUITO [ARTICLE]

BEGINS A WAR ON MOSQUITO

New Jersey County and Several Rail* roads Co-Operate to Exterminate Pest. New York.—Escorted by Commissioner William Delaney of the Hudson county board of health, the Bayonne board of health and Drs. John T. Connolly and Charles J. Larkey of the medical staff of the city have inspected the rendezvous of the Bayonne crop of mosquitoes. They found a few hundred thousand larvae and wrigglers. The breeding places were near the Central railroad tracks. The Bayonne board decided to ask the council to make a special appropriation at once, so the breeding spots may be destroyed before the mosquitoes get on the wing, which will be about ten days hence. Prof. John B. Smith, state entomologist, has promised to have the state pay half the expense of the fight against the pests in Bayonne. Commissioner Delaney said a systematic fight would be made throughout the county and that the Pennsylvania, Central and Lehigh Valley railroads would spend about 135,000 in their share of the work.