no Mosquitoes 



moved to the emergency hospital if willing, if not he 

 was screened, removed to another room if not too ill, 

 and his room fumigated, then returned and the rest 

 of the house — including the chimneys — submitted 

 to a thorough fumigation and cleaning, repeated 

 before twelve days had elapsed, to make sure that no 

 infected insects remained. Cars and freights were 

 disinfected, this being mostly unnecessary but done 

 to satisfy the popular demands. In proof of his view 

 that most of the car disinfection and relaying was 

 superfluous, Dr. White states that on the Louisville 

 and Nashville coaches, which ran without relay or 

 disinfection from New Orleans 1 16 miles to the Ala- 

 bama State line, where they were relayed, several 

 score of quarantine guards, who travelled in the cars 

 with the passengers in all hours and weather for the 

 entire time of the epidemic, were not stricken with 

 any kind of fever whatsoever, nor were any of the 

 train crews taken ill, notwithstanding the fact that 

 the trains passed through the most infected district 

 in the city. Dr. White does not believe that the 

 Stcgomyia often travels far from its birthplace, citing 

 that, in all cases where a town had been infected and 

 the disease traced, it has been found to be due 

 to some virulent person coming there during the 

 incubation period of the fever. 



This would hold true on a ship ; the mosquitoes 

 would probably not fly out to a ship in the harbour, 

 but if there were mosquitoes breeding on the ship, 

 carried there by launches, or when the ship was in 

 the dock, etc., and an infected person, after board- 

 ing the ship, was bitten, of course infection of the 



