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4. All cess-pits which retain water shall be disinfected or oiled 

 except they be efficiently covered and trapped. 



5. All gutters and down-pipes shall be maintained in good 

 repair and free of obstruction so as to prevent the accumulation 

 of water therein and to allow the ready passage of water from the 

 roofs of houses, 



6. All Inspectors of Health shall have authority to enter any 

 premises at any time between the hours of 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. for 

 the purpose of seeing that these Regulations are carried out, and 

 may pour oil or cause oil to be poured on the surface of water 

 contained in any receptacle in or on such premises. 



Made by the General Board of Health this 22nd day of 

 February, 1909. 



President. 



Confirmed by the Governor in Executive Committee this 

 day of February, 1909. 



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When the epidemic broke out a manifesto was issued by the 

 President of the Board of Health, Dr. Chandler, to Commissioners 

 and Inspectors of Health, etc. : 



Sir, 



Yellow Fever is spreading in various parts of the Island. 



There are two points whose importance you probably realise 

 already but which cannot be too frequently impressed on every 

 Commissioner of Health and every Inspector of Health in view of 

 the grave danger resulting from a want of their proper con- 

 sideration. 



1. It is during the first three days of illness that the Yellow 

 Fever patient infects mosquitos, and every such patient who 

 remains unscreened from mosquitos during the whole or a material 

 part of these three days if bitten by Stegomyia mosquitos, which 

 abound in Barbados, makes his place of abode the centre of a new 

 Yellow Fever infected district. 



Our recent experience has clearly demonstrated that in many 

 cases it is difficult for the attendant medical practitioner to 

 diagnose Yellow Fever in the earlier stage of the disease. 



The returns made of the cases that have occurred during the 

 present epidemic show that a large number of cases have only been 

 seen for the first time by a medical man after the expiration of 

 the first three days of the disease. With this result of the present 

 state of things its continuation can only mean the spread of the 

 epidemic. 





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