62 YELLOW FEVER PROPHYLAXIS IN NEW ORLEANS 



have given the assurance that the State and City could be counted on to do their share. 

 The people are responding generously to the appeal. The emergency warrants you in 

 taking in the present instance the same steps to furnish the aid we ask as were taken by 

 your predecessors in similar emergencies, notably the drought and high water 

 emergencies and the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1897. Charles Janvier, Chairman, 

 Citizens' kellow Fever Committee." 



The Fiscal Agents of the State at the same time wired the Governor that they stood 

 ready to advance to the State at the rate of two per cent, per annum the money which 

 might be required, upon the assurance from him that the Legislature of the State 

 would include such advance in the Appropriation Bill at the next session of the 

 General Assembly. Promptly upon receipt of my wire, the Governor replied as 

 follows : — 



" The State should help New Orleans financially and every other way in this 

 emergency, and she will. Am getting into communication with legislators. Will 

 make the loan as soon as I have heard from a sufficient number. I think it will be all 

 right. Go ahead. N. C. Blanchard, Governor." 



In a few days the Governor, in response to his telegraphic inquiries, received 

 pledges from more than a majority of the members of the General Assembly that they 

 would at the next session vote for the appropriation of $100,000.00, for the purpose of 

 helping the people of New Orleans in their fight against the fever, and the Governor 

 informed me at once that the State was prepared to help to that extent and would 

 increase the amount if the necessity for so doing should arise. (It is interesting to 

 note at this point that the Governor finally heard from all the members of the General 

 Assembly and there was not one single dissenting voice.) In the meanwhile, the 

 Mayor of the City had called the City Council in conference and in due course the 

 Council passed by unanimous vote an ordinance, on Aug. 17th, 1905, authorizing the 

 Mayor to effect a loan with the City's Fiscal Agents and place at the disposal of the 

 Citizens' Yellow Fever Fund Committee the sum of $50,000.00. 



While the sum of $250,000.00, which the Committee in its appeal stated would be 

 necessary, had been thus secured, the Committee did not cease their efforts to still 

 further augment the fund, and at the present writing the Citizens' Yellow Fever Fund 

 amounts to over $137,000.00. 



The Governor has been obliged to divert $20,000.00 of the State fund to help other 

 sections of cne State, leaving $80,000.00 still at our command from the State. 



The amount of money, therefore, that we have raised up to the present time is over 

 $267,000.00, which should be sufficient to pay all the expenses of the campaign, and 

 leave a handsome balance in our hands. We desire when this fight is over to 

 construct, equip and maintain an Isolation Hospital of the very finest character, for 

 the care and treatment of contagious and infectious diseases, and to that great purpose 

 will be applied whatever sum may be left in our hands at the conclusion of the present 

 fight. 



I trust that the foregoing gives you all the information you desire in connection 

 with the financial side of our present struggle. 



Yours respectfully, 



Charles Janvier, 

 Chairman, Citizens' Yellow Fever Fund Committee. 



