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On the same date the following announcement is also made : — 



EITHER MOSQUITOES OR MEN MUST RULE. 



THE QUESTION PLAINLY PUT BEFORE THE PEOPLE HERE. 



IN THE FIRST OF GENERAL EDUCATIONAL MASS MEETINGS. 



LEADERS IN SCIENCE PRESENTING TRUTH OF MOSQUITO THEORY. 



AND URGING THE PEOPLE TO STAMP OUT THE PEST AND 



REDEEM THE CITY FOR EVER. 



The first gun of the educational warfare against the stegomyia was fired last night, 

 when the inaugural mass meeting of the respective wards was called to order in 

 the First Ward by the Hon. C. Taylor Gauche. It is proposed to hold public meetings 

 in every ward of the City, and through speakers, well versed in the elucidation of the 

 questions of vital importance to the health and prosperity of New Orleans, to 

 thoroughly and accurately inform the people and to teach them with regard to the now 

 accepted fact that the stegomyia mosquito is the conveyor of Yellow Fever, and that 

 the extinction of the pestiferous insect now will mean absolute freedom from Yellow 

 Fever for all time to come. 



The following day practical suggestions were also published : — 

 Valuable Suggestions (from a Local Medical Man). 



Don't put any more gangs to work than you have trustworthy foremen for ; the 

 oiling and screening must be as thorough, complete and effective as the preparations 

 for an aseptic operation. 



Get the ladies of your ward to make you numbers of carpenters' aprons. You will 

 need them when you get to screening. 



Get the ladies to provide bits of pasteboard or woollen stuff about one inch square 

 to run your screening tacks through. They hold the cheesecloth much better. 



Don't economize on tacks. The mosquito can creep through very small holes. 



Screening gangs need plenty of hammers and shears. Better lay in a full supply. 



Keep accurate account of premises to which you are denied entrance, of empty 

 houses into which you cannot get, and of those where the tenant makes himself 

 responsible for the oiling and screening. These will provide the breaches through 

 which the enemy will find entrance, if they are not stopped. 



Inspect and re-inspect all work done, by the most intelligent and conscientious 

 inspectors you can find. 



All inlet pipes of 10 feet long or over should be screened and lower ends of all outlet 

 pipes covered with cheesecloth securely tacked or tied. 



The end of outlet pipes may be immersed in a pail of water, which can be kept oiled 

 by the householder. 



All householders should be asked to sweep standing water out of the gutters. 

 Where they cannot attend to it, screening gangs should look to it. 



On the date appointed for the cleaning of the City the announce- 

 ment in the Press is : — 



Greatest cleaning the City has ever enjoined. Thousands of men and carts to be 

 engaged in to-day's battle against dirt. And City Administration will seek to make 

 permanent the improvement which the forces expect to secure. 



The result of the cleaning was, indeed, manifest, the accumula- 

 tions of years was got rid of and the City made far more wholesome. 

 Some 800 extra labourers were employed and 250 carts. It was 

 pointed out that this cleaning whilst it did not necessarily affect the 



