RECREATION AND HEALTH
New Jersey is rich in its facilities for recreation and recuperation. The long sea coast is one long line of attractive summer resorts, which are famous all over the world, while some places are pleasure and health resorts all the year round, and attractions of a different kind are found in abundance among the mountains, woods, lakes, and streams of the northern part of the state.
Under authority given by state law the counties and cities have provided many parks and playgrounds and have adopted progressive plans for extending these healthful provisions.
The state has adopted stringent measures regarding sanitation, protection against disease, protection against injury in manufacturing, housing conditions, safety in travel, protection of minors in permissible occupations, and the segregation and treatment of the tuberculous. State laws provide for the payment of damages to persons injured in the industries, and of pensions to dependent widows.
The salt marshes are a menace to health and comfort because they are breeding places for mosquitoes. The counties are authorized by law to spend large sums of money for the purpose of destroying these pests.