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campaign was thus in the hands of the Ward Organisation which 

 received its expert advice from the Advisory Board. In the 

 emergency it supplemented and largely replaced the City Health 

 Board. 



It was an excellent organisation and brought about an immense 

 awakening of the people in the matter of sanitary reform. When 

 finally the Advisory Committee, as previously mentioned, saw that 

 the fever gained in spite of the energy of this civic organisation, 

 owing to lack of sufficient trained and official medical officers to 

 direct, and that it was necessary, therefore, to appeal to Washington 

 for the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, and when, in 

 consequence, the Service did take charge, the latter immediately 

 placed its own marine medical superintendents in charge of each of 

 the Ward offices, and simply co-ordinated, drilled and extended the 

 ward machinery ; in this way it ensured perfect co-operation. 



•Before entering upon this final stage of the campaign, I would like 

 to draw attention to some of the Proclamations and Notices which 

 were issued both during the period when the Ward Organisation was 

 in sole charge of the campaign, and subsequently when it was under 

 the supreme authority of the Marine Hospital Service. The first 

 two which I insert are official notices from the civic authority and are 

 signed by the Mayor. The first one is a most useful water screening 

 ordinance, and constituted a most powerful factor in bringing about 

 the suppression of the disease. It is one which should be extensively 

 copied. 



I. A Water Cistern Screening Ordinance. 



Mayoralty of New Orleans, 



City Hall, Aug. 2, 1905. 



No. 3196 New Council Series. 



AX ORDINANCE, prescribing the manner in which water liable to breed mosquitoes 

 shall be stored within the limits of the City of New Orleans, 



Section i. — Be it ordained by the Council of the City of New Orleans that no water 

 liable to breed mosquitoes shall be stored within the limits of the City, 

 except under the following conditions. 



Section 2. — Water kept in cisterns, tanks, barrels, buckets, or other containers for a 

 period longer than one week shall be protected from mosquitoes in the 

 following manner. Cisterns shall be covered with oil by the property 

 owner or agent thereof within forty-eight hours after the promulgation 

 of this ordinance and provided with a cover of wood or metal ; all 

 openings in the top or within six feet of the top larger than one- 

 sixteenth of an inch to be screened with netting of not less than eighteen 



