YELLOW FEVER PROPHYLAXIS IN NEW ORLEANS 27 



8. Appeal to Householders to delay " Moving Day " on account 

 of Danger of Spreading Infection. 



In view of the near approach of " Moving Day" (October ist) the undersigned 

 deem it their duty to direct your attention to the danger likely to attend a general 

 moving of tenants from house to house. 



Persons moving from infected localities may later develop the fever in uninfected 

 neighborhoods, thereby developing new foci. Others now residing in uninfected 

 houses may contract the disease by removing into houses where mild cases of fever 

 may have occurred and recovered without Medical Attention, and consequently 

 escaping fumigation. Xon-immunes coming into such houses will almost inevitably 

 contract Yellow Fever, thereby adding to our present troubles. 



We do therefore urge the importance of taking such steps as may be necessary to 

 delay the general movement for at least thirty days. 



Advisory Co\ntiTTEE, O.P.M.S. 



g. Danger of Removal of Temporary Cistern Screens. 



New Orleans Parish Medical Society, 



New Orleans, La. 

 Seft. 13, 1905. 



There being a pretty general understanding in the community that the cheese 

 cloth screens over cisterns have to be removed by Oct. i, and the regular i8-mesh to 

 the inch wire screen substituted by that date, we believe that a number of persons are 

 now having this change done to the great danger of a general liberation of all 

 mosquitoes imprisoned or bred from the pupae in the cisterns. We can not afford, in 

 the final fight of checking Yellow Fever in our midst, to neglect so important a matter 

 as this, so we strongly urge that the change from cheese cloth to wire, if not legally 

 postponed until Dec. i, shall be by having the wire screens placed over the cheese 

 cloth without removing the latter. 



Advisory Committee of Orleans Parish Medical Society. 



II. — The Citizens' Organisation, 



It was mentioned in an earlier part of this history of the organisa- 

 tions that a Citizens' meeting was held on July 21st, in the Town Hall, 

 for the purpose of raising funds, that Mr. Janvier was appointed 

 Chairman of the the Yellow Fever Fund Committee, and that on 

 July 24th the first step in Ward organisation was made by Ward 14. 

 A further step was taken on July 26th when the Advisory Committee, 

 together with the Health Authorities, decided to place the organisation 

 of the 16 Wards of the City under the charge of one man. They 

 selected Dr. Warner, who, by his devotion, energy and personality 

 soon won the confidence of all classes of citizens, and made them 

 work as one man. 



