Bridgeton pioneer., 1911-11-16
HOW To Get RID
OF MOSQUITOES.
Question Agitafing States Of
New York and New Jersey.
CANAL zones SUCCESS.

Proved That Cash Can Exterminate
Them-Governor Wilson Is Expected
70 Urge the Legislature to Take
Measures For Relief From the Pest.
Because the mosquito pest in New
York and New Jersey has been
worse pest in 1911 than for several
years residents of the two states are
icstirring themselves to expand the
var Of eXterminat ton. 1t is admitted,
despite disagreements as to details.
that mosquitoes can be driven away.
III problem, it appears, is wholly one
of ash available. The federal gov
ernAent's success in the Panama ca
nal zone is cited as proof that the pest
is conGuerab!r.
Owing to organized protests in New
Jersey, there is Il prospect that Gov
crnor Woodrow Wilson will urge the
legislature To approve state wide
measures of relief, granting enough
money for the work. In New York
also the outlook for increased action
Is hopeful, because the health officers
interested intend to recommend In
crease Of ammunition and more sys-
tematic methods.
Mosquitoes came back last summer
in full force. In spite of thousands of
dollars spent by New Jersey in the
last FIVE years to wipe out the crea-
lures. residents of the state say that
for years they have not suffered as
they have i'll the months just past.
In Orange. n. j.. the New England
society has voiced the radical anti
mosquito sentiment by passing q set
of resolutions urging Governor Wilson
to send Il special message to the legis-
lature demanding immediate action.
The plan Of the society includes the
appointment of Il commission with au.
thOrity and funds to start the work at
once on large scale.
Jerseyites protest that the state T.
er proving carefully that mosquitoes
could be eXterminated, has done little
toward actually getting rid of them.
judging from this years crop. On the
contrary. the work in the Panama ca
nal zone done by DR.. ". C. GOrgas
was so successful in eXterminatil2
the mosquitoes. there a chief source
of disease. that the annual death rate
in thousand among the employees for
the month OF August fell from sixty
two in 1906 to nine in 1911.
The experts admit that the mosquito
question in New Jersey and New York
is not generally a matter of life and
death. as it was in Panama. but the
pest transmits malaria and other dis
eases. damaging live stock, destroying
land values and causing general dis
comfort. The sufferers want to know
why New York and New Jersey can
not get rid of their mosquitoes if Pana-
ma can.
When asked the causes Of this years
pest authorities disagree. Some blame
rain; others blame drought.
There are scores Of different yarie-
ties of mosquitoes. according to the
experts. but when 1t comes down to
exterminating them they fall into two
tribes. the salts and the freshes-those
that breed in salt marshes and those
that breed In stagnant pools of fresh
water. whether these pools are exca-
vations or roof cutters or tin cans.
The salts are in the great majority.
and at the same time they are the
easiest to deal with.
Salts migrate; freshes only spread.
Salts propagate by the million in
swamps. freshes. commonly called 40
GALS by the scores in tin cans, tanks,
cutters and sinks.
Altogether New York city has spent
about 100000 in its anti-mosquito
work. New Jersey about $SOOOO