A WARNING 167 



With the profoundest assurance of our lieartiest 

 co-operation with you in any movement to better 

 the sanitary conditions of the city. 



Step 6.— A WARNING TO BEWARE OF THE DANGER 

 OF OVERLOOKING THE LESS OBVIOUS BREEDING 

 PLACES OF THE STEGOMYIA 



A very useful and practical notice is also sent 

 out by the Advisory Committee directing attention to 

 the importance of not overlooking possible receptacles 

 of water in the house, as pitchers, flower-pots, etc. 

 It reads as follows : — 



Orleans Parish Medical Society, 



New Orleans, La. 



We desire to call your special attention to the 

 wrigglers seen inside of the residences of people. 

 Probably the public in the fight against the mosquito 

 have directed all their efforts against the cisterns and 

 the barrels or the outside containers. Still a source 

 of great danger also exists inside of the bedrooms in 

 the water-pitchers, in the dining-room, or in the 

 conservatory in the water-pots, vases or pots of plants. 

 A frequent error and a great menace is the habit which 

 some householders luue of only partly emptying a 

 water-pitcher, and though it is refilled daily it is never 

 emptied entirely, leaving always one-half pint or so 

 for the larva? to develop. Any physician in his daily 

 rounds can see this illustrated by inspecting the various 

 water-pitchers in the bedrooms. 



On this same line we beg to again call your atten- 

 tion to the accumulation of water in the urns in the 

 cemeteries as well as in the sagged gutters of the 

 house drains, which are a great source of mosquito 

 breeding after rain. 



