350 THE FIGHT AGAINST YP^LLOW FEVER. 



Habaiia. The enforcement of the measures began April 20, 1903. 

 The mortality which l)efore had averaged 150 deaths a month fell to 

 S in the month of April and to 4 in June. In January, 1904, there 

 were recorded only 3 deaths. 



France decided to foHow these encouraging examples. The gov- 

 ernor-general of French Western Africa, M. Roume, adopted an ad- 

 ministration analogous to that of ITabana and Rio de Janeiro, and he 

 knew how to profit by these exam})les. The result was not long de- 

 layed. On May 29, 1905, an imported yellow-fever patient died in 

 Dakar. Thanks to the ])recautions taken, this death has not been 

 followed by a single other one. The threatened e])idemic was 

 stopped at its first stride and that colony saved from a new disaster 

 such as it had suH'ered twice in less than thirty years. 



