22 YELLOW FEVER PROPHYLAXIS IN NEW ORLEANS 



for the good of the City and the preservation of every individual of its population, and 



should be respected and followed to the letter. 



I repeat, upon the information of those qualified from actual investigation and 



scientific knovvrledge to speak upon this subject, that the situation in our City is not 



alarming, and that if it is treated by our people earnestly and intelligently, that this 



situation will soon be eliminated and demonstration will be made to the world that 



for the future the infection of Yellow Fever can have no permanent lodgement within 



the borders of the City of New Orleans. 



Martin Behrman, Mayor. 



We concur in the above. 



Quitman Kohnke, 



City Health Officer. 



Edmond Souchgn.M.D., 



President, L.S.B.H. 



J. H. White, 



Surgeon, P.H. and Marine Hospital Service. 



Advisory Committee, 



Representing Orleans Medical Parish Society. 



2. Appeal for Early Notification. 



On July 24th a most important notice is also issued to the 

 members of the Medical Profession from the Orleans Parish 

 Medical Society, and signed by the Advisory Committee, Dr. White, 

 the Medical Officer, and the President of the Louisiana State Board 

 of Health urging upon each medical man the absolute necessity 

 of early notification and of reporting all cases of fever. It is un- 

 questionably an exceptionally wise circular and touches a very weak 

 spot. I reproduce it : — 



Orleans Parish Medical Society, . 

 New Orleans, La., 



July 24, 1905. 

 Dear Doctor, 



We want to specially urge you to report all your cases of fever — malarial, 

 typhoid fever or fever of any kind — during this summer, to the City Board of Health. 

 It is absolutely essential to the checking of the spread of Yellow Fever in our City that 

 all cases of fever should be promptly and conscientiously reported. Our patients, the 

 public and the surrounding communities, will naturally look to our profession in this 

 great emergency, and the responsibility rests in a great measure with us to check this 

 condition, or at least to limit its too extensive spread. It is a well-known and 

 scientifically proven dogma that the mosquito theory is to be accepted as a fact ; then 

 we must exert ourselves to the utmost to destroy the mosquito, the only host of 

 transmission of Yellow Fever. Let us, then, make a con.sistent campaign against it, 

 educate our patients regarding this situation and the danger of it, and direct them to 

 place patients immediately under netting pending action of. the Board of Health. 

 Neither your patient nor the household will be subjected to the obnoxious house 

 quarantine of several years ago. 



Above all things, REPORT YOUR CASES PROMPTLY, to permit us to check 

 any further foci of infection. 



