Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-10-02
State EntomO|Osist Smith Mott.
fies Board Of Health Regarding
Mosquito determination,
FIVE MILES AFFECTED.
will Cost $3.50 and Health Board
will Put It Up to Property
Owners.

The Board of Health did not hold
it's scheduled monthly meeting last
night, no quorum being present
President Main and Commissioner
Hansen were present and adjourned
the meeting until Friday night. Clerk
Macmillan and Inspectors Fithian
and Brewster were also on hand.
= The board has received a commune
cation from John B. Smith, entomolo-
gist and executive officer of the New
Jersey Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion, at New Brunswick, notifying
them that 27,160 feet of bitches,
thirty inches deep, must be dug in
the marshy and swampy sections of
land in the northern and western part
of the city, for the purpose of assist
ing in eXterminating mosquitoes.
There was also sent map of the
swampy grounds, where the bitches
are to be dug and also a copy of the
law.
The cost of digging such bitches
to drain the area of marsh, Mr.. Smith
states in his communication, will be
$3.50. This the local Board of Health
will be unable to pay for and they
Will have the matter put up to the
property owners along the lines of
the marshes. The property owners
will be given certain number of
days in which to have the work done.
If it had not been started at the end
of that time the board proposes to
secure funds from the city council, in
order to have the work done, and the
charge will then be made to the prop
erty owners.
1t is for this purpose that a meet
ing is to be held Friday night.
The letter is as follows:
Gentlemen:-
please take notice, in the course of
a survey made in accordance with sec
tion / of chapter 134 of the laws of
1906, the following salt marsh mosqui-
to-breeding areas We're found within
the limits of the city of Perth Amboy,
and within your jurisdiction, as shown
on the maps hereto annexed
First That stretch of salt marsh
lying along the western shore of Ar
thur Kill, extending rom the line of
Woodbridge creek southward TO the
line of the railroad of Poughshore
Point; extending west from said Kill
to the highland.
Second: Those several small stretch
es of salt marsh extending along the
small creeks that empty into the Rari-
tan river along the northern bank of
said river, between the Woodbridge
township line on the east and the rail-
road bridge crossing the Raritan river
on the west.
YOU are further notified that the
character of the work to be done is the
placing of bitches, thirty inches deep
and of the width specified on said maps,
at such intervals may be necessary
to drain off the surface water, supple
mented by filing the deeper holes with
the sOds taken from the bitches. That
the total area to be drained is approx
imately 340 acres, requiring about
twenty-seven $50 feet of ditching and
that the probable cost of the work re-
quired to drain the entire area above
mentioned, so as to dispose of all the
mosquito breeding pools is the sum of
$3.50.
This notice is served upon your
body pursuant to the requirements of
section of said chapter 1874, of the
laws of 1906 aforesaid, a copy of which
is also attached hereto.
Yours &c,
JOHN b. SMITH,
Executive Officer.