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tnition and a special raid upon the breeding places of 

 the stegoniyia, the deatli rate for Cuba has come down 

 to between 11-17 pro niille ! It must never be for- 

 gotten that it was in Cuba that the crucial and famous 

 test was made that only by the stegomyia could the 

 poison of yellow fever be transmitted. Tliis test was 

 made, as we have already seen in a preceding chapter, 

 by Reed, Carroll, Agramonte, and I.azear. Yellow 

 fever has now been checked and annihilated. Thus 

 in 1007 only one case of yellow fever is reported in 

 Havana, and the general death rate is 17 pro mille. 

 It can be with trutli said to-day, as stated in the 

 current number of the " Bulletin of Public Health 

 and Charities of Cuba," that during the three years 

 between 1005-0 there was only a total of 350 cases 

 of yellow fever throughout the wliole republic, and 

 during that same period only 40 deaths in Havana ; 

 whereas in the days of old there were thousands of 

 cases. 



On tlie date upon which tliis new Bulletin was 

 issued (April 1000), tlie repubUc was dechu'ed free 

 from small-pox, yellow fever, and bubonic plague. 

 This is the result of the use of modern weapons — a 

 complete triumph for civilisation. 



THE YELLOW LEVER CAMTAICiN, NEW ORLEANS, 



1905 



This having been my first campaign in which T was 

 present as a volunteer, I will trace the steps by which 

 the fever was overcome, for that purpose reproducing 

 the proclamations which were issued in their chrono- 



