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further that b}^ the adoption of remedial measures looking toward the 

 destruction in all stages of the yellow-fever mosquito we may reduce 

 to a minimum the possibilities of the transfer of the disease. After 

 demonstrating the fact, the medical oflScers of the Army in Cuba have 

 put these measures into effect, and the results have been most gratify- 

 ing. The health of Havana has constantly improved, and at the date 

 of present writing the published statement has just been made that 

 during the month of October, 1901, there was not a single case of 

 yellow fever in Havana, while October is usually the severest month 

 for that disease, and in fact during the past ten years the average 

 number of deaths in the city during that month from yellow fever has 

 been 66.27. This discovery, and this practical demonstration of its 

 truth, it seems must soon change all methods of quarantine in the 

 United States; and it seems certain that in the future the Gulf cities 

 will no longer dread the disease or remain subject to the great vital 

 and economic loss to which they have been subject from occasioQal 

 yellow-fever outbreaks during past generations. 



