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4. Sleep under mosquito nets. 



5. Screen doors and windows wherever possible with 

 fine screen wire. 



^S*^^^ 2.- APPEAL FOR CIVIC CO-OPERATION 



On INI onday, July 24, a Proclamation was issued, 

 signed by the Mayor, and concurred in by the Medical 

 Authorities, setting forth the situation and calling upon 

 the citizens to co-operate with the Health Authorities 

 in stamping out the fever. It runs as follows ;--■ 



The Mosquito Campaign 



PROCLAMATION 



Mayoralty of New Orlkans, 



City Hall, July 2i, 1905 



To THE People of New Orleans : — 



The health situation in this city is serious, but 

 not alarming. Because of this situation, quarantine 

 has been declared against New Orleans by several 

 States and Cities. It is proper that the actual facts be 

 recognised and dealt witli resolutely and calmly. 



It is authoritatively stated by eminent sanitarians 

 that within recent years visitations of yellow fever, 

 more widely spread than that Avhich is in our city, 

 ha^'e been successfully met and absolutely suppressed 

 by methods whose potency lias been demonstrated by 

 ascertained results, and the application of which is 

 simple. Those methods are now adopted by our own 

 State and City Health ^Vuthorities, with the volunteer 

 assistance of the United States Marine Hospital 

 Ser\ice, and the Orleans Parish Medical Society of 

 this parish. To the perfect and speedy success of the 



