International Sanitar\ Conference <>f Washington 



Protocol So. 7. 



Session of Februsry 18. 1881. Page 34 



Tin- Special Delegate of Cuba Dr. Finlay) :--! Bhould lik.- to explain 

 v.liy I have signed both Dr. Cervera'a and Dr. Ainado 'a projeta. It ¡a 

 I consider it argent thai tins Conference Bhould adopt 



favorable to the scientific investigation of yellow fever and I ause I ; 



moreover, thai should either of the two measures be agreed upon . 



step «ill have been made toward the realization of our sanitary aspirations. 



Without entering into technical considerations, which would 1"' out 

 of place, and simply as an example which sluill render, so to speak, palp- 

 able thi for such an investigation as Dr. Cervera and Dr. Amado 

 have demanded, 1 beg leave to remind my colleagues here present that 

 .!;ir> measures no» general!] recommended against yellow fever are 

 founded upon a mode of viewing that disease which is completely 

 riance with a considerable number of observed facts W« I av< on one side 

 ind, on the other, the oon-contagionista, each endeavoring 

 to deny the importance of the cases brought forward bj the contrary party 

 in support of their respective opinions. Well, gentlemen, I declare that it 

 is impossible for an impartial mind to look into the stated facta without 

 arriving al the conclusion that many of the ; I in favor o 

 of those two apparently contradictor] opinions, muat 



perfectly authenticated facta, which conclusion i essarily leads t.> this 



other consequence, thai we must admit the intervention of a third inde- 

 pendent condition in order to account for those two 01 





