( 6o ) 
Not much can be learnt by comparing these figures with the outbreaks 
at Belize, there does not appear to be any relationship ; thus, whilst Belize 
was free since the epidemic of 1891 until the outbreak of this year, the Yellow 
fever persisted in Vera Cruz. 
Thanks to the application of scientific methods since 1902, the number 
of cases at Vera Cruz are beginning to show a decline. At great cost, 
wharves were constructed at Vera Cruz, so that vessels might come alongside 
and discharge, but Cuba and the United States declared “infected” the 
vessels which went alongside, so that the money is to a considerable extent 
wasted, so long as Yellow fever persists. Since 1903, Belize has not had 
much direct communication with this port, owing to quarantine, but, as will 
be seen directly, there is much indirect intercourse. 
The following figures prepared from data furnished by the weekly health 
returns of the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service show approximately 
the number of cases of Yellow fever in Mexico from January to December, 1905. 
Cases. 
Deaths. 
City of Mexico 
Oaxaca : — 
I 
1 
Tehuantepec ) 
Tuxtepec 
Juchitan ) 

44 
23 
Vera Cruz : — 
Coatzacoalcos ' 
Texistepec 
Tierra Blanca 
Vera Cruz 
Soconusco 
V ... ... ... 
Cn 
00 
9 1 
Tezonapa 
Cordoba 
Omealca 
Yucatan : — 
Merida 

6 
2 
It is a great satisfaction to know that under the guidance of Dr. Liceaga, 
President of the Supreme Board of Health, Mexico is making a determined 
effort to rid the country of Yellow fever. Vera Cruz started the campaign; 
the State of Tamaulipas followed. Yucatan, on our frontier, has also under- 
taken a vigorous attack against the disease, appreciating the advantage to 
be gained both for its internal and foreign trade, by freeing itself from 
Yellow fever. It is believed that the States of Campeche, Tobasco, Chiapas, 
Oaxaca, Nuevo Leon and San Luis Potosi, in which although fever is not 
endemic, yet nevertheless spreads whenever it takes an epidemic form, will 
join in the campaign. 
Of great importance to the future security of Central America is the 
fact that the severe epidemic of plague which broke out at Mazatlan was 
stopped in six months owing to vigorous application by the Board ot the 
most recent methods of prevention in this disease. 
In the campaign the authorities and citizens loyally combined under the 
direction of the medical officers. 
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