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4. Charity Organisation during the Epidemic. 



The Charity Organisation Society has been designated by the General Superin- 

 tendent of the Citizens' Volunteer Ward Organisation to receive and disburse such 

 money and supplies as shall be contributed for the relief of the sick and poor people 

 whose sufferings may be due to the present visitation of Yellow Fever. 



The Society is fully organized, with permanent headquarters, perfected machinery, 

 competent investigators, and an intimate knowledge of the poor of this City. 



We appeal to all good citizens for money for the " Emergency Fever Fund," 

 pledging ourselves that every dollar so contributed will be sacredly devoted to the 

 help of those to whom the Yellow Fever, and its accompanying hardships, have 

 brought suffering. 



We have no funds in hand except twenty-five dollars received from Mrs. Christian 

 Keener. Receipts will be published from time to time. 



Michael Heyman, 

 President of the Charity Organisation Society. 



I beg to endorse this appeal most heartily, and to ask our citizens to make the 

 above Society the channel of their contributions to the fund for general work of relief 

 which we may be called upon to undertake. 



While we do not seek to interfere with the charitable work of the churches and 

 benevolent organisations, but to co-operate with them, we wish to sound a note of 

 warning in time. Emergencies like the present are rich opportunities for the charity 

 "grafters." Theimisfortunes of the sick and poor are made the capital of the lazy 

 and worthless. 



The Charity Organisation is better equipped than any other I know in New 

 Orleans to deal with this important side of the volunteer work, and this office 

 heartily endorses the above appeal. 



Beverley Warner, 



General Superintendent. 



Ward Notices. 



The following- notices, from one of the Ward Offices and distri- 

 buted to Householders ixi the Ward serve as examples of the useful 

 work which they did. 



Request to the Householders of the Ward to observe 

 a General Fumigation Day. 



First Ward Citizens' Sanitary Association, 



1749, St. Charles Avenue, 



New Orleans, La., September 1, iocs. 

 To THE Citizens of the First Ward. 



Saturday, Sept. 2, and Sunday, Sept. 3, have been suggested and agreed upon as 

 GENERAL FUMIGATION DAYS, between the hours of 10 a.m. and 12 a.m., for the 

 purpose of destroying the mosquitoes, which are recognised as the medium of com- 

 munication of Yellow Fever, and we make the following suggestions as to the manner 

 of fumigating : — 



1 . Close all outside openings, such as doors and windows, and make the house 

 (or room) to be fumigated as tight as possible, by closing or stopping the 

 fireplace and other openings, with paper pasted over them. 



2. Pianos should be removed from the rooms to be fumigated. 



