YELLOW FEVER PROPHYLAXIS IN NEW ORLEANS 21 



L — The Local Medical Organisation. 



Appeal for Civic Co-operation. 



On Monday, July 24th, a Proclamation is issued, signed by the 

 Mayor, and concurred in by the Medical Authorities, setting forth the 

 situation and calling upon the. Citizens to co-operate with the Health 

 Authorities in stamping out the fever. It runs as follows : — 



I. The Mosquito Campaign. 

 proclamation. 



Mayor.\lty of New Orleans, 



City Hall, July 24, 1905. 

 To THE People of New Orleans : 



The Health situation in this City is serious, but not alarming. Because of this 

 situation, quarantine has been declared against New Orleans by several States and 

 Cities. It is proper that the actual -facts be recognised and dealt with resolutely and 

 calmly. 



It is authoritatively stated by eminent sanitarians that within recent years visita- 

 tions of Yellow Fever, more widely spread than that which is in our City, have been 

 successfully met and absolutely suppressed by methods whose potency has been 

 demonstrated by ascertained results, and the application of which is simple. Those 

 methods are now adopted by our own State and City Health Authorities, with the 

 volunteer assistance of the United States Marine Hospital Service, and the Orleans 

 Parish Medical Society of this parish. To the perfect and speedy success of the 

 measures to be followed, the co-operation of every householder is necessary. That 

 given, the people may confidently expect a speedy release from the trying conditions 

 in which they are now placed, and from apprehension of its recurrence in the future. 

 I, therefore, as Mayor, urge all citizens and householders to render cordial and 

 ready obedience to the instructions which may from time to time be given by the 

 Health Authorities, and to render every aid within their power to those Authorities in 

 the earnest efforts which they are now making, and in which they will persist for the 

 absolute stamping out of this infection. Those instructions are not difficult of 

 performance ; they are easily to be understood, and can be followed with but little 

 expense. Since the consensus of sanitary and medical opinion of to-day is that the 

 infection of Yellow Fever is transmitted, or can be transmitted, only by means of the 

 sting of the insect known as the " cistern mosquito," the following advice recently 

 given by Dr. Kohnke, the City's Health Officer ; by Dr. Souchon, President of the 

 State Board of Health ; Dr. 'White, Surgeon of the U.S. Marine Hospital Service, and 

 an Advisory Committee of the Orleans Parish Medical Society, should be willingly 

 and implicitly obeyed by every householder in this City. 



First. — To keep empty all unused receptacles of water in every house, and 

 allow no stagnant water on any premises. 



Second. — To screen aU cisterns after placing a small quantity of insurance oil 

 (a teacupful in each cistern) on the surface of the water. 



Third. — To place a small quantity of insurance oil in cesspools or privy vaults. 



Fourth. — Sleep under mosquito nets. 



Fifth. Wherever practicable, screen doors and windows with wire screens of 



close mesh. 

 The foregoing advice may from time to time be given by the Health Authorities 

 with more particularity. Whatever emanates from them must be accepted as given 



