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3. Place an iron vessel, flat skillet preferred, in pan or tub with about one 

 inch of water in it ; place roll of sulphur or flower of sulphur (two pounds 

 to each ordinary sized room to be fumigated) in the skillet ; pour over it a 

 small quantity of alcohol, about two tablespoonsful to the pound, and set 

 fire to same. 



4. Keep the house, or rooms, closed for two hours after lighting the sulphur. 

 Those who prefer to do so may use Pyrethrum powder (insect powder) instead of 



sulphur. Where this is used the rooms should be swept after the fumigation and the 

 mosquitoes so gathered up should be burned, as Pyrethrum powder merely stuns the 

 mosquito. The amount of Pyrethrum to be used is one pound to each ordinary sized 

 room. 



We quote the following from Rev. Beverley Warner, Superintendent : — 

 " In conformity with the urgent request of the Marine Hospital Surgeon in com- 

 mand, and on behalf of the ^'olunteer Ward Organisations, your representatives, I 

 earnestly recommend a general fumigation of the houses, stores, office buildings, 

 factories and every harboring place of the mosquito, on Saturday, September 2, and 

 on Sunday, September 3, in the case of those who find that a more convenient day. 



" Respectfully, 



" Beverley Warner, 



" General Superintendent." 

 Residents of the First Ward can procure sulphur for fumigation free by applying 

 at any of the places named on the back hereof. The citizens of the First Ward have, 

 up to now, manifested their intelligence by solidly supporting the authorities, both our 

 own local health ofiicers and those of Marine Hospital Service since they have taken 

 charge, by implicitly following their directions and suggestions in the fight that has 

 been, and is being made, against Yellow Fever and its disseminator, the mosquito. 

 The good resulting therefrom is shown in the diminution of the number of new cases 

 since the fumigation of last week and the week before, although they were not as 

 general as they should have been. The good results from the sanitary work done in 

 the First Ward by its people, and their general compliance with the recommendations 

 of the Health Authorities is demonstrated by the comparatively small number of 

 cases of the fever which have appeared in our ward. 



We strongly urge you to fumigate on Saturday, or Sunday, in compliance with 

 the above request, and thus assist in stamping out the fever and ridding our City of 

 the mosquito which transmits it. 



Respectfully, 



C. Taylor Guache, 



President of the First Ward Citizens' 

 Sanitary Association. 

 W. J. Brady, 



Secretary. 



Sulphur Depots. 



Boebinger's Grocery St. James and Tchoupitoulas. 



Neupert's Grocery Tchoupitoulas and Orange. 



Manning's Grocery Tchoupitoulas and Theresa. 



Twohig's Grocery Market and Chippewa. 



Huber's Grocery St. James and St. Thomas. 



McLaughlin's Grocery Felicity and St. James. 



Corbett's Grocery Orange and Constance. 



Holmes' Grocery Terpsichore and Constance. 



Holmes' Grocery Camp and Melpomene. 



Abradie's Grocery Prytania and Euterpe. 



