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of water- and fly-borne diseases, of the cost and 

 trouble to the individual householder in obtaining 

 and maintaining a private water supply, and 

 refuse disposal plant, and also in protection from 

 fire with aU the gain the last item carries with it 

 in the way of reduced insurance rates, business 

 development, etc. 



The cost of maritime quarantine, if necessary in 

 a given community, should also not be charged 

 entirely to anti-yellow fever work. Maritime 

 quarantine will benefit the community in many 

 ways, by excluding undesirables and carriers of 

 various infectious diseases. Only a portion of this 

 expenditure, say one fourth, can be justly charged 

 to anti-yeUow fever measures. 



Assuming that an anti-yeUow fever campaign 

 were to be inaugurated in a city similar to Panama, 

 a city of 40,000 inhabitants, covering an area of 

 approximately one square mile; with a well- 

 marked rainy season of eight months' duration 

 and Aedes calopus breeding all the time; with 

 yellow fever foci within six days' travel, and being 

 in constant communication with the city ; with no 

 communal water and sewer system, and with yel- 

 low fever cases present, the following preliminary 

 organization would be desirable for an anti-yellow 

 fever campaign: 



