The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-12
SECTION THREE
Brazil Which Produces Coffee and Yellow Fever
Brazil,
Santos Brazil. May

Santos. Brazil. May f..
II HE PRINCIPAL products of Santos
are coffee and yellow fever The
very air is frcighted with the smell
az one and the suspicion OF Lle other
yellow fever has always been great
L.udrauce 20 the commercial Interests
of Brazil. The lIst trouble from this
FCurCe occurred iU 1850 when there was
q fearful epidemic I'm Rio de Iauelfp
alone over 200 persons were taken 7lcN
daily, and the greatest CONSERVATION
prevailed. AS this time the natives
were susceptible 90 the fever as wen
as The foreigners. and many prominent
people died Deputies, represent
and dirl0mats were stricken In sucn
numbers that congress was thrown /
into a panic and adjourned toFtlNitu-
Iu later years the yellow terror I
reigued supreme at santos. W mole I
crews Ola steamers entering the ndlDOI 1
here were taken SICK only TO llt Ike I
flies. Many vessels remained iu pore
Tor months. until the owners could dis
patch new crews to man them. Three
crews We're sent out from England for
one ship, and IL was eighteen months
before the Inflated craft finally cleared
the harD0T I'm one year In Rio de Jd-
Ieiro there were 1852 deaths from this
source. The sanitary conditions are
health authorities report that during
the period from NOV. j, 1908 TO March
j. 1904. there were only f0rty-Oue cases, /
resulting I'm fifteen deaths.
Afraid to Use Water.
The water has been so foul I'm the
harbors of Santos and Rio de JancirO
that the decks OF the ships could not
be- washed while they were anchored, /
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board was drawn upon FOR that puT-
pose. While iu "a hot climate lt is Gus
tUmsTy for sailors TO dampen The decks
ia order 20 cool things Off IU was no.
Jiced that the men who did this were
always taken sick first.
The general acceptance Of the idea
that the mosquito is the distributing
agent of yellow fever, ana the eN-
haustve experiments that have been
made i'm studying the habits of this i'm
IseCJ. have brought to light many in
5arestiug facts Negroes and jungle
folk are immune. A white man may
penetrate the interior. where uO one
of his kind has preceded him. and
where. as far as is known. there has
been no fever, and yet me win take it,
Now the question arises If the mos
quito is the distributing agent. and is
only "a distributor extracting the
germs from the blood of one person and
injecting them into that of another,
how does IL happen that it carries these
germs ip a community where there has
been 100 one sick of the teTer3 a care
ful analysis Of the blood OF native inn
Euues has revealed the presence or
fever germs iu sufficient quantities to
iuucuiate others, but not numerous
enough TO make the natives themselves
sick. when they are yOung. all ma
tives doubtless have the fever i'm a form
So slight as not TO be noticeable. In
no other way could the presence OF the
germs ia their blood be accounted for.
The blood of the dark races has greater
power of resisting fever germs than
that of the white. The further the in
Nestigauon goes the better the case
that is being made against the mos
quito. and The more relentless the right
for its determination.
Great Trade in Coffee.
Brazil has been exporting coffee since
the year 1900 and during the past
thirty years has held first position as
the principal producer of the world. 1T
now supplies about JEo-thirds Of the
entire amount consumed everywhere.
Nearly every state iH Brazil IS engaged
I'm the industry. and the country de-
Tives the most of its revenue from the
sale of this great staple. Coffee grows
In most countries shade lis required To
protect the plants. but nothing of the
sort is needed iH the BraziIi1n coffee
belt A moist climate with little rain
makes the plants thrive.
Cofoe is first planted I'm seed beds.
1U about eighteen months the plants
are q foot high, after which they are
pat in the ground and carefully pTo-
tected from the weeds. The plants gem
orally begin to bear when they are
years old. and ought to yield at the rate
Of four pounds every year. A good tree
EtU bear for thirty years. and there
are some which yield until they are so
years OF age. Coffee is like cotton i'm
asmuCh as iL must be picked by hand
Negroes and Italians are employed for
this work a good picker gathering
about fifty pounds daily. The green
coffee beans are dried by laying them
out in the sun Oh large cement floors