162 THE YELLOW FEVER CAMPAIGNS 



5. AVherever practicable, screen doors and windows 

 with wire screens of close mesli. 



The foregoing advice may from time to time be 

 given by the Health Authorities with more particularity. 

 A\'hatever emanates from them must be accepted as 

 given for the good of the city and the preservation 

 of every indixidual of its population, and should be 

 respected and followed to the letter. 



I repeat, upon the information of those qualified 

 from actual investigation and scientific knowledge to 

 speak upon tliis subject, that the situation in our city 

 is not alarming, and that if it is treated by our people 

 earnestly and intelligently, that this situation will soon 

 be eliminated and demonstration will be made to the 

 world that for the future the infection of yellow fever 

 can have no permanent lodgment within tlie borders 

 of the City of New Orleans. 



>S'i;^;^ 3.— APPEAL FOR EARLY NOTIFICATION 



ISSUED BY THE HEALTH ALTHOKITIES AND ADVISOKY COMMITrEE 



July 24, 1905 



Dear Doctor, 



We w^ant to specially urge you to report all 

 your cases of fever — malarial, typhoid fever or fever 

 of any kind — during this summer, to the City Board of 

 Health. It is absolutely essential to the checking of 

 the spread of yellow fever in our city that all cases 

 of fever should be promptly and conscientiously re- 

 ported. Our patients, the public and the surrounding 

 communities, will naturally look to om- profession in 

 this great emergency, and the responsibility rests in 

 a great measure witli us to check this condition, or 

 at least to limit its too extensive spread. It is a 

 well-known and scientifically proven dogma that the 



