The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-28
MOSQUITO WAR
GAN Be WAGEO
HERE FOR $1,000
Health Commissioner Dobbins
Says This Sum Will Well
Nigh Eradicate Them.
MONEY Is NEEDED FOR
INSPECTORS AND OIL
Finance Committee OF City Coun-
Gil to Be Appealed to for
all Appropriation.

III the city Will spend $500 or 81, 900
this spring there will be practically no
mosquitoes rilis summer, except, per-
haps. IN the Forest Hill and Clinton
Hill sections said Commissioner John
W. Dobbins. Of the Board of Health,
TO-DAY. He declared that an effective
CANT aign can be waged with such a
small appropriation, He said if the
board does not get the money the work
of tho last several years will go for
nausht.
Tie trouble last year during the dry
part Of the summer was that, finding
no pools. the mosquitoes deposited
their eggs IN the corner sewer basins.
The health officials knew the eggs
were there. hut did not like to spend
money for oil to wash them out. They
waited for rain and rain did not
come"
What is needed now, according to
Commissioner Dobbins, is money TO
pay three inspectors and to buy oil.
He claims that $1,000 will cover all
this.
To Ask for. Funds.
The mosquito determination commit
tee of the Board OF Health, headed bv
DR.. H. c. II. Herold. will appear be-
fore the finance committee of the Com
MOI Council tonight to urge the COM
mittee to spend the money.
Commissioners Dobbins said further
today:
s'Our board has been working the
mosquito problem out along systematic
lines for several years, and we have
brought 1t up TO a point at this time
where we can positively guarantee re-
cults, but we have no money with
which to carry on our work.
ut has been am uphill fight. sur
rounded by many obstacles. The mos
quito had been a source of much an
noyance for a great many years be-
fore the idea occurred to anyone that
1t was possible to destroy it, and as
a result It is only reasonable to suppose
that it's determination could not be
accomplished in a year or several years,
and each year we learn something new
of the insect.
Bred In Marshes.
1--WE know positively that the only
place a mosquito can breed is In the
water; hat the water must not contain
Ash, and that they cannot breed in
grass and weed as come would believe,
1--WE have destroyed the marsh mos
quito that once bred on our meadows
by ditching the meadows, n We dc
not breed salt marsh mosquitoes In
Newark. Occasionally, when there has
been a strong, east wind for a day or SO
we may get salt marsh mosquitoes.
These are blown here from some place
probably in the extreme end of Staten
Island or South Jersey. but they DO not
stay with us long, for there is no place
for them to breed.
1.-THE mosquitoes that we suffer from
are those which breed in fresh water,
and these are mans worst enemy.
They not only are more ferocious thai
the marsh variety. but they carry dis
ease with their sting, and are re-
sponsible positively for Malaria and
yellow fever.
ut has cost the city of Newark be
tween six and seven thousand dollars
up to the present time to carry on this
work and we can safely guarantee te
rid Newark of the pest IL he work is
continued two years more.
1--WE know where every bit of water
stands in Newark long enough to Dreec
mosquitoes; we knew this last year
and had II completely under control
But you will remember that from Deco
ration Day last year to the latter par
of June we had no rain, II the mos
| quitoes, finding no pools to deposi
their eggs, dropped them in the cornel
| sewer basins. l knew they We're in tn
basins, and was praying for a storm
that would wash them out. but tn
storm did not ~materialize and | wa
afraid to spend the money to oil tn
many thousands of catch basins II
Newark. But his will have to be don
this year to insure success, and wit
the pools taken care of and the catcl
basins oiled whenever mosquitoes ar
found in them. you can see that Their
will remain no water for mosquitoes t
breed in.
Three Inspectors Needed.
we need three inspectors to devot
their entire time in summe to thi
work; one man on the $500 acres Q
meadows, for If the bitches becom
choked up so the fish cannot come /
they become breeding places them
selves, and two men to look after tn
pools thai surround Newark on a
sides. This with what oil we shoul
have win require about $500 or $1,000
and IL the Council will give us tha
amount we viii guarantee no mos
quitoes this summer. OF course, whe
I say this 1 exclude the Clinton Hi
and Forest Hill sections. because til
mosquitoes that annoy these section
are bred in Irvington, Belleville an
Bloomfield. owe which we have no cor
troll"
Commissioner Dobbins will have
neatly arranged cabinet of mosquitoes
showing their development from tn
time the egg is deposited to the ms
tured mosquito. He will also have
bottle of live wrigglers and some o
to show the Aldermen how completed
the oil does It's work. He will ais
have pictures of the work that ha
been done on the meadows