ANTIMOSQUITO LAWS 247 



the point of view of reporting suspects, fumigation and antilarval 

 measures. It runs as follows : — 



YELLOW" FEVER 



1. A ]\Iedical Officer upon becoming aware or on suspecting 

 that any person in his district is suff'ei-ing from Yellow Fever shall, 

 if he has not already done so, visit such person without delay and 

 report the facts to the Local Sanitary Authority of his district, 

 as well as to the General Board of Health through Colonial 

 Secretary as required by section 4 of Ordinance No. 13 of 1905. 



2. Where the patient is found or suspected on such visit to 

 be sufferint; from Yellow Fever the Medical Officer shall forthwith 

 cause him to be placed under a mosquito net, and may direct him 

 to be isolated in an apartment or building so screened as to 

 effectually prevent the access of niosquitos thereto, and it shall be 

 the dutv of the occupier of such preniises to carefully cause such 

 screens to be kept closed. 



3. Where the patient aforesaid is ordered by the proper 

 authority to be removed to an Isolation Station or Hospital, he 

 shall only be so remo\ed in an ambulance or vehicle which is 

 effectually screened against niosquitos, and it shall be the duty 

 of the person in charge of such ambulance or vehicle to see that 

 such screen is not opened unnecessarily. Any such Isolation Station 

 or Hospital shall be so screened as to effectually prevent the access 

 of niosquitos thereto. 



4. Where any house or building or any part thereof in which 

 any case of Yellow Fever or suspected case of Yellow Fever has 

 occurred is ordered to be cleansed and disinfected (under the 

 authority of section 8 of Ordinance No. 13 of 1905) such operation 

 shall include its fumigation to the satisfaction of the jNIedical 

 Officer and so as to effectually destroy any niosquitos therein. 



5. Inniiediatelv upon any case of Yellow Fever being reported 

 in any place in a district, the Local Sanitary Authority shall cause 

 regular house-to-house visitation to be made in the vicinity of 

 such place to ascertain whether any other cases of fever have 

 occurred ; and the district Medical Officer shall assist the Local 

 Sanitary Authority and its inspectors in such visitation, and they 

 are hereby empowered to strictly enforce the following measures 

 for the eradication of moscjuitos in such place and its neighbour- 

 hood : 



{a) No water shall be stored (except in small quantities for 

 drinking purposes) unless efficiently protected against 

 mosquitos by the following method : 



All tanks, barrels, etc., for storing water shall have all 



