Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-16
''PEST" FIGHTERS
TELL OF 1918 WAR
.seclares Campaign Against
Mosquitoes Was Outlined
on Maps.
EXPENDED
& IN EXPERIMENTING WORK
Thirteen Important Facts About
''Disturbers" Given on Card
"a Issued by Commission.

I'll issued by COMMISSIONS.
las a record of warfare Caesars
Commentaries are not whit more
thrilling than the report of the Essex
Bounty Mosquito determination Com
mission, issued today.
Doesn't this sound like that famous
massage of Caesar beginning "All Gaul
is divided into three parts?"
1.-THE surveying and charting of the
salt marsh meadows was done for the
purpose of rendering it possible to
Systematically conduct a successful
campaign against the mosquito in
that locality during the summer of
1919, and the map drawing of the mu
inequalities and townships primarily
for the use of the field inspectors"
Then, narrating how the deadly
culex tribe was tracked to its lair
and massacred, the report continues,
1.-THE control of culex pipiens was
satisfactory to July 10. when brood
Sufficiently large to make its presence
felt arrived. We are not prepared to
identify this brood as solely culex
'pipiens since culex salinarius re-
semble culex pipiens SO closely that
Identification is uncertain. An inves-
tigation revealed that a very large
Percentage of this brood came from
the meadows of which mention is
made above.
81 This brood, however, did not eX-
tend over the entire county, being no.
ticed in Nutley, Belleville the Wood
side section of Newark, part of
5 BLOOMFIELD and Montclair on the north
side of the county and in the southern
a af arlc IrVInRt0n.
Get Trail of Brood.
N This brood was traced to the Franz
creek section of Hudson, county and
the Dead creek section of Essex
county by a series of night collec-
TONS"
After this scouting was done the
commissions forces, consisting of a
chief inspector, an assistant chief,
Two deputy chiefs, forty-six inspec-
tors and thirty-twp laborers, prompt
ly waged a relentless campaign of
determination. .
The salt marsh work of the COM
mission lay in ditching and draining.
Sewer catch basins were regularly
oiled. inspectors covered the vari-
GUS county and city districts once
every ten days in hot weather and
/ once every fifteen in cooler weather
Iaborers accompanied them and did
the work of burying cans, opening
bitches, filling holes and drainins.
4 Many large swamps were drained and
rendered safe from mosquito breed
ing in Newark, Irvington, East Or.
ange, Nutley, Belleyille, Bloomfield.
Glen Ridge and South Orange.
Three thousand feet of new bitches
were added in the; salt march opera
tons and 100000 feet of old bitches
were cleaned out. The commission
contracted for the cutting of 350,o0c
1inea1 feet of new bitches.
Something of the scale on which
the campaign was carried out can be
Judged by the fact that between Ma
81 and October 81, 1912, it cost 81, 085.6
to provide the oil that was used tc
combat the mosquitoes.
The total expenditures for the fisca,
year were SOS, 313.99 The appropria-
tion of the Board of Freeholders was
s75,100, and other receipts brought
the total up to $80,037.90. The bal
hnce on hand is $14,723.91.
s17,7s9.44 Spent in Newark District.
The expenditures of the commission
in the Newark district amounted to
$17,739.44, and in the Newark meadows
$18,33S.
The report covers forty-five pages
and is profusely illustrated The
members of the commission are:
Ralph II. Hunt, M. D., president:
Spencer Miller, vice-president; Cur
it's r. Burnett, treasurer; Frederick
w. Becker, M: D.; James ]. Thomp-
son and r. Heber Breintnall.
The commission has prepared for
public distribution a card containing
thirteen important facts about thu
mosquito pest. These facts are as
follows:
There are over forty species of
mosquitoes in New Jersey
'2-Mosquitoes breed only in water
They may breed in any Kind of quiet
water. clean or foul, fresh or salt, I'M
stocked with fish or predatory insects.
S-Mosquitoes generally require
from one to. three weeks to develop
from eggs to winged insects in warm
weather, longer in cold weather. Fee
males may begin to lay eggs three
days after full development, but as q
rule they do not start until at least
week old Males die in a few days;
females live until they have a chance
to lay eggs and may live a month or
longer. Those that hibernate in the
adult stage may live from September
of one year to June of the next
"4-Some species lay in boat-shaped
masses, some singly on the surface of
the water, others in the mud of de-
presSions where water has recently
been. Each species of mosquito has
Some popularity of its own.
"5--Mosquitoes do not breed in
grass, but rank growths of weeds or
grass may conceal small breeding
puddles, and form a favorite harbor-
ing place for adults. A teacup full of