YELLOW FEVER PROPHYLAXIS IN NEW ORLEANS 57 



On August 17th the Press make the announcement that Sunday, 

 August 20th, is to be made a general fumigation day and publish the 

 following statement : — 



It is incumbent on every good citizen to use the means God has f laced in his or her 

 hands to prevent Yellow Fever from becoming efidemic and to lessen the future chance 

 of further infection. 



It is an absolutel\' established fact that the disease is communicated from person to 

 person by the mosquito alone. 



The screening and oiling that has been done will destroy the chance of new broods 

 of mosquitoes hatching. The mosquitoes that were hatched before the screening and 

 oiling were done, are still about the City in vast numbers, and are, in the present 

 crisis, liable to become as dangerous as so many rattlesnakes. 



To get rid of these mosquitoes requires fumigation by sulphur fumes. This 

 fumigation, to be effective, must be done by a preconcerted, organized movement by 

 all the citizens and householders of this City, on a given day and at a given time. 



If every room and inclosed space within the limits of New Orleans is fumigated on 

 the same day and at the same hour with sulphur fumes, and for two full hours, the 

 mosquitoes will be destroyed, and the medium of Yellow Fever infection removed, so 

 that within a week from the date of this general fumigation of the whole City the table 

 of new cases published daily will fall to a small percentage of what it is at present. 



Therefore we appeal to every householder, every boarding or lodging house keeper, 

 every hotel keeper, every merchant and manufacturer, every person occupying any 

 inclosed premises of any nature, whether it be a stable or a room in an office building, 

 to see that 



NEXT SUNDAY, AUGUST 20TH, AT 10 O'CLOCK A.M., 



any and every room or enclosed space under their control is fumigated for at least two 

 hours with sulphur fumes, in accordance with the directions of the Marine Hospital 

 Service, which \\'ill be published. Beverley Warnek, 



General Superintendent. 



On August 25th, after a month's work, the Press make the 

 following encouraging announcement : — 



Last night closed the first month's struggle of the City of New Orleans against 

 Yellow Fever. Probably no city in America has ever made such a valiant fight 

 against disease as has been made by the citizens of this City and State, who have 

 contributed their money and their labor to stamp out the mosquito pest and stop the 

 spread of fever. 



An army of men has been enlisted in this sanitary war. A fund of a quarter of a 

 million of dollars has been raised and is being expended, with probably as much again 

 having been contributed to the fight in one way or another. 



During the first month business was practically suspended for one day, and 

 everyone devoted their energies to cleansing and scrubbing the City. 



Thousands of men have worked in the streets, and hundreds of carts have been 

 employed carting away the scrubbings. 



To-day the whole City will fumigate. Sulphur has been secured by the carload, 

 probably about twenty cars, and it has been distributed among the wards for free 

 distribution among those unable to buy, and at 10 o'clock this morning every house is 

 expected to be fumigated with sulphur, thereby killing mosquitoes that may be hiding 

 in dark corners and crevices. Everyone is again urged to fumigate. By everyone 

 smoking them out at the same time it does not leave places of refuge in which the 

 stegomyia can seek and find a safe haven. If everyone follows instructions to-day 

 there will be a widespread slaughter of the Stegomyia fasciata, and to that end the 

 spread of fever largely checked. 



