EARLY NOTIFICATION WS 



mosquito tlieory is to be accepted as a fact ; then we 

 must exert ourselves to the utmost to destroy the mos- 

 quito, the only host of transmission of yellow fever. 

 Let us, then, make a consistent campaign against it, 

 educate our patients regarding tliis situation and the 

 danger of it, and direct them to place patients im- 

 mediately under netting pending action of the Board of 

 Health. Neither your patient nor the household will 

 be subjected to the obnoxious house quarantine of 

 several years ago. 



Above all things, report your cases "prompthj, to 

 permit us to check any further foci of infection. 



Even if you are not positi\e that the mosquito is 

 the only source of transmission of yellow fever, give 

 your city the benefit of the doubt in this important and 

 vital matter. 



Step 4.— APPEAL FOR IMMEDIATE SCREENING OF 

 ALL SUSPICIOUS CASES AND FOR FUMIGATION 



ISSUED BY THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE 



Orleans Parish Medical Society, 



New OrleanSj La. 



Dear Doctor, 



In an earnest attempt to work in harmony 

 with the plan of procedure adopted by the Health 

 Authority and the U.S. Public Health and Marine 

 Hospital Service, now being enforced in a general 

 inspection of our entire city, we want to suggest to 

 you, as your Advisory Committee acting with these 

 bodies, that you report at once any case of fever in your 

 practice remotely suspicious of being yellow fever. If 

 you want to do your city the greatest good in this hour 

 of trial, immediately constitute yourself as a Health 

 Officer for the premises of the sick you are called to 



