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mosquitoes on board would follow. Dr. White says 

 that there is no more rationalism in quarantining yel- 

 low fever than there would be in quarantining 

 typhoid — indeed there is less, because it may be 

 stated as an absolute and invariable law that a case 

 of yellow fever known in the first two or three days 

 of its existence, and to which proper measures can 

 be applied, presents absolutely no menace to the 

 community, not even to the family resident in the 

 house with it. But, of course, quarantine of the 

 city is necessary so long as the people persist in 

 concealing cases and will not take proper sanitary 

 precautions. 



They made a good fight in New Orleans, unselfish, 

 patient, sensible, systematic, scientific — and they 

 won. Those who have never been long in the city, 

 especially in the infected districts, can never appreci- 

 ate just what it was with which that gallant band of 

 citizens and officers had to contend. All praise to 

 them — the loyal workers and the level-headed, wise 

 directors. The fever was extirpated, but New Or- 

 leans is not yet immune, nor will she be until, like 

 the cities of the north, she posseses city waterworks, 

 underground sewerage and drainage, and stone 

 pavements. They will be the best investment she 

 can make. 



The Matin reports that Drs. Marchoux and Si- 

 mond who, under Dr. Roux, Chief of the Pasteurian 

 School, have studied the disease at Rio for the last 

 five years, entirely reject the hypothesis that the 

 yellow fever of Panama can possibly differ from that 

 of Havana or Rio. In fact their results confirmed 



