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Step 5.— APPEAL FOR AN EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN 



ISSUED I?V THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE 



Another circular is issued on the 24th, directed 

 to the Board of Health, pointing out the necessity 

 of a campaign of education, and urging the im- 

 portance of asking the clergy to especially disseminate 

 knowledge from the pulpit in the matter of yellow 

 fe\'er. The circular then proceeds to give useful 

 information in case of infection and finally appeals 

 for united action in a general warfare against the 

 stegomyia. 



New Orleans, 



July 24, 1905 



Gentlemen, 



The condition existing at present is one that 

 calls for the most strenuous, prompt and vigorous 

 measures capable of institution. In view of the absence 

 of the necessity for obnoxious local or house quarantine, 

 the co-operation of physician and householder should 

 be a matter of comparatively easy solution. A cam- 

 paign of education should be boldly inaugurated. The 

 clergyman, during his rounds and from his pulpit, 

 should be a valuable agent in the dissemination of tliis 

 knowledge. The Advisory Committee of the Orleans 

 Parish Medical Society begs to recommend that the 

 following measures be instituted at once, with the view 

 of stamping out the few foci of infection of yellow^ fever 

 which now exist in our city. 



Cases of fever of any character developing in the 

 infected area may be regarded as suspicious, and the 

 patient immediately protected from mosquitos. The 

 house, cisterns, yards, drains, gutters, cesspools and 



