Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-04-30
LAY PLANS FOR
MOSQUITO WAR
Chief Inspector Dobbins Urges
Haste in Naming
IiEfFr Assistants.
COUNTY WILL BE SPLIT
INTO 43 DISTRICTS
Commission Will Name Forty
seven Successful Applicants
for Positions Next Friday.

Cammissioner Spencer Miller, of the
Essex County Mosquito determination
Commission, gave an address to the ap-
) plicants for inspectorship and deputy
chief inspectorships yesterday, defining
the duties of the position and pointing
out the fact that the inspectors in many
instances onl be required to gpaspsa
pick aud shovel and do manual labor.
Chief Inspector John W. Dobbins
sounded a warning to the commission,
urging that they appoint as soon as pos
sible the men who are to take the field In
the attempt to exterminate the mosquito
In embryo.
Mr.. Dobbins stated that the culex
pipiens, or fresh-water mosquito, would
be on the wing about May 20, and the
work Of exterminating the insects must
be well under way By May 8.
More than fifty candidates for the four
deputy chief inspectorships and forty
three ordinary inspectorships have filed
applications for the jobs. These will be
acted upon at the next meeting which
will be held Friday afternoon, and al.
though those selected will be required to
take civil service examinations Nav 81,
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The deputies will receive s100 a month and
be engaged by the year, and the ordinary
Inspector will be on u per diem basis at
80 a day, to serte only during the season
of seven or eight Months.
The inspectors will be recognized while
OH duty by their uniform hats and
badges.
The plans for the work provide for
dividing the county into forty-three dis
tricts with one inspector for each. New
ark Will have sixteen ward districts,
though it is not intended to restrict the
districts to the exact boundaries of the
wards. the object being to divide the
work as equally as possible. The Newark
fifth district will comprise all of the Fifth
Ward and part of the Twelfth and Tenth
wards. Part of the Newark thirteenth
Ward district CVailsburg) will be included
In Iryington North District. South Orange
Village district takes in part Of the town
ship as far south as Parker avenue. Es-
sex Fells-Caldwel district includes Rose
land and Caldwell township district in
cludes West and North Caldwell. Z
The complete list of districts, in addi.
ton to the sixteen ward districts of New
ark are: BelIeyille. Nutley. Bloomfield,
north and south; Glen Ridge, Montclair,
north, central and south: West Orange,
north, south and mountain; Orange,
north, central and south; East Orange,
east. west. north and south; South Or.
ang Village, South Orange Township,
Irvington, north and south: Millburn
Township, Livingston Township and
Yerona-Cedar Grove.
A copy of the budget, agreed upon at
the last meeting, which asks for an ap-
preparation of $4,000 with which to carry
on the work. was ordered sent to the
Board of Freeholders, together with a
request that $4,000 be set aside at once
in order that an active campaign may be
begun without delay.
The commission granted a hearing to
J. c. Sprieg, president of the Board of
Health of Essex Fells. a retired business
man, who offered to serve the commission
as deputy chief inspector at the regu-
lar salary, providing he was given the
territory comprising Essex Fells, Cald-
well and Roseland. where he said he had
already given much of his time In clean
Ing up cutters and other breeding places
of mosquitoes. He added that he would
forego a two months trip abroad with
his family if he should be appointed, and
would give all his time to the work. His
orer was taken under a%dvisement.