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Dr. J. H. White, assistant surgeon general, U. S. Public Health 

 Service. In 1905 Dr. White was given full control by the national, 

 state and city authorities of the yellow-fever epidemic in New Orleans. 

 His work was done strictly on the mosquito basis, and the epidemic, 

 which was fully started and which would certainly otherwise have re- 

 sulted in thousands of deaths, was wiped out before frost for the first 

 time in the history of yellow fever. The total death list was less 

 than 500. 



