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community, the Stegomyia will be so few in number that there will 
be very little chance of their biting the patient. In former times 
the inhabitants of epidemic areas went in dread of an outbreak 
It meant, in the Southern States of the United States, a ‘shot-gun’ 
quarantine: as a result the residents and their city were shunned 
by all and a general stagnation of trade ensued. Such methods 
however, are of the past. New Orleans has demonstrated what a 
scientific combat with Stegomyia can do, and she has been added to 
the list of successes which have always occurred where the Havana 
anti-yellow fever measures have been instituted. Havana and Riode 
Janeiro, both endemic centres, are free of the disease, and Panama 
as s own how an immense engineering scheme can be executed 
vut out repeating the old tale of wholesale loss of life from yellow 
fever. 
espite the success of these measures in the places I have 
lentioned, other countries and towns have not followed suit, and in 
lem yellow fever continues to be a scourge, and they constitute a 
anger-zone to all places within the limits of the Stegomyia. 
\ ellow fever is a disease which allows of little delay. It runs its 
P SG * n a ^ evv da y s » and you must be prepared to offer battle 
unately many cases are ol a mild type, and unless something 
eptiona ly wrong is done the case will recover. Such cases are 
g or your reputation, and as yellow fever exacts a heavy toll, 
•ij j probably be your misfortune to lose many cases, you 
j , . Cm ' one wko treats many cases of the disease can 
for v„r in r a . CCrtam percenta & e °f his patients. There is no panacea 
his management of thfc “ ^ T' 3 ™' bU ‘ ® g0od P h >' slcian cm bj 
Elimimt' CaSC ’ markedI y reduce the mortality. 
congestion ^ n* u Supportin f* measures, with the reduction of the 
depends on n u™ - =“ say that treaty, 
therapy in th ?“ 8 '' abstlnen « from all food, rest in bed, and hydro- 
isa^ PowliT ° f f ailne to act as mild dmret.es. Water 
treat many ^ ” tb ‘ S disease ’ and should you ever have to 
alkaline waters and good numhTg . ^ 0ther 0,3,1 
extremely mild^forms ^ ebow fever are “et with. In adults, the 
y m.ld forms resemble i„ fluenza or a dlsturb ance of the 
