FIGHTING THE INSECTS 



Rubert) was anxious to go to New Orleans at once, to watch 

 the work then being carried on so admirably by the U. S. 

 Public Health Service under Dr. J. H. White. I furnished him 

 with collecting materials and warned him that when he got to 

 New Orleans he would probably have great difficulty in leaving 

 on account of the very strict quarantines, which, of course, now 

 seem to us rather absurd. He was quite ready to run all risks, 

 and when I, anticipating his possible difficulties, offered to help 

 him financially, he grinned in a grateful but rather superior 

 way, thanked me and said that Liverpool's shipping interests 

 would keep him supplied with money. I did not know at the 

 time that he was the son-in-law of a great shipping magnate 

 who, I believe, was a backer of the Liverpool School. 



Lord Mountmorris, who was with him, was then a young 

 man in his early thirties, and greatly interested in medical work. 

 He did not go to New Orleans with Professor Boyce, but 

 remained in Washington for some days. I remember that one 

 night a group of us were chatting at the Cosmos Club about 

 national agreements and disagreements and I suggested that 

 national differences were rather trivial as compared to ethnical 

 differences. Turning to Mountmorris, I said, "Speaking racially, 

 I am just as good an Englishman as you are." 



"Oh, dear me, I'm Irish," he said, and there was a general 

 and hearty laugh. 



Professor Boyce's stay in New Orleans interested him greatly. 

 Dr. White put him upon one of the important committees, and 

 he worked hard. But the emergency was soon past, and he 

 was able to get away to the West Indies in the early autumn. 

 His experiences are well described in his very readable book 

 "Insects and Man," published in England a year later. 



But although I started to get back to malaria, I see that I 

 have been writing of yellow fever again, and I must really add 



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