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Feeling sure you will understand the spirit which prompts this communication the desire simply 
to get the co-operation of the entire profession of this city in the checking of the multiplication of a 
new foci of infection, and the early destruction of those already existing. 
I am, 
Yours very truly, 
J. H. WHITE, 
Surgeon, l’.H. and M.H.S. 
ORLEANS PARISH MEDICAL SOCIETY. 
Nkw Orleans. 
July 24 , 1905- 
Dear Doctor, 
We want to specially urge you to report all your cases of fever — malarial, typhoid lexer, or 
fever of any kind— during this summer, to the City Board of Health. 
It is absolutely essential to the checking of the spread of Yellow fever in our city, that all cases 
should be promptly and conscientiously reported. 
Our patients, the public, and the surrounding communities, will naturally look to our profession 
in this great emergency, and the responsibility rests in a great measure with us to check this 
condition, or at least to limit its too extensive spread. It is a well-known and scientifically proven 
dogma that the mosquito theory is to be accepted as a fact; then we must exert ourselves to the 
utmost to destroy the mosquito, the only host of transmission of Yellow fever. Let us, then, make 
a consistent campaign against it, educate our patients regarding this situation and the danger of it, 
and direct them to place patients immediately under netting, pending action of the Board of Health. 
Neither your patient nor the household will be subjected to the obnoxious house quarandneof several 
years ago. 
Above all things, report your cases promptly, to permit us to check any further foci of 
infection. 
Even if you are not positive that the mosquito is the only source of transmission of Yellow 
fever, give your city the benefit of the doubt in this important and vital matter. 
Respectfully, 
(Signed) EDMOND SOUCHON, M.D., 
President Louisiana State Board of Health. 
QUITMAN KOHNKE, M.D., 
Health Office of the City of New Orleans. 
J. H. WHITE, M.D., 
Surgeon U.S. Public Health and Marine Hos 
pital Service, in charge of Government Measures. 
Advisory Committee Orleans Parish Medical Society. 
John Callan, M.D., 
M. J. Magruder, M.D., 
John F. Oechsner, M.D., 
L. G. LeBeuf, M.D., Chairman. 
After the first official notification of the disease in Belize, the Colonial 
Sur<>eon also addressed a letter to the local Practitioners, in which he states : — 
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“ In view of the reported case of Yellow fever, 1 would deem it a favour if 
you would give me opportunities of seeing with you in your practice such cases 
as may occur, or even in which there may be cause to suspect Yellow fever. I 
make this request so that I may be able to report on the outbreak and advise 
the Governor, for not being in private practice I have to rely on the courtesy 
of practitioners to afford me opportunities of seeing cases.” 
