Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-08-19
DR. LETTER
Giives Advice as Chief Health Officer of
M1ubee County
Macon, 6Miss., Aug, 18Th, 1905.
70 the Cfsens of this, Norubee County:

CNQcOn, STSS, Aug. 10Th, JSU5.
70 the Cisens of this, SGrubee County;
Your Board Of Supervisors have empowered me to do
what deemed best to prevent Yellow Fever from coming here
and to manage it lift should come in spite of efforts to prevent it,
AS chief health officer of the county am a State officer, and
amenabIc to the State Board ofHealth; for the exercise of the au-
thority bestowed in me by our Board Supervisors am response
bic to that Board.
What l shall do shall be III support of the ordinances Of the
State Board of Health primarily, and to the three of our incorpo-
rated towns s%econdarily.
There are now nine cases of the fever at NJ Mississippi City; none
elsewhere in the State, have faith in the efficacy of the quaran-
tines OF the State and of the corporations, and do not think a
quarantine of the County shorld be instituted save where the dan.
ger is urgent. But wish now to prepare you to guard against
it in~telhgcntly.
DO not entertain Strangers, even if they have health certif-
Gates, especially fear those who come through the country" OBJ
serve The quarantine laws of the incorporated towns. Here the
are views that are held by all yellow fever experts and by the medi
cal prof sion. Willow Fever can only be produced by the bite Of a
certain female Of species of mosquito, which female has previous
y pittea d person who has the fever. After biting she must live
: II days before ST can produce the fever by biting. Then the per-
sou thus bitten gocs six days before he has the initiatory chill
The bite must occur after the chill and before the the end of the
scventy-second hour hereafter. Neither the clothing nor the de
jections Of the patiC1r can produce the disease. Now, if q person
comes to yoa ON an Infected locality, with a symptom Of the
fever, put htn IA eencd room, with a bed with a mosquito
bar over it, ap there SIX, or better ten, days. If the fever
does not d & is time release him. Ifhe has the fever keep
mosquitoes until after seventy two hours. After that the
fever can no lccd from lm by mosquito or otherwise.
How To .o0M FoRA PATIENT. Stop all cracks
with paper, A LIZ paste. Put in mosquito wire
doors and wa II cannot be had then use cheese
cloth or mos rise flen put a wash pot iii the room
and in it M oH nstone, a tea cup full OF kero-
sene. Set o. the solid doors. IT. 3 or 4
hours open the So doors and let in the fresh ait, and let out
the sulphur fumes. BRING patient into this room. Admit no mos
qutoes.
By.authority of the Board Of supervisors l hereby command
all civil officers of the County to promptly aid in this work each
i'll his own locality, reporting to the local physician f1 direction.
call upon all the physicians of this County to hIp in this
good work, and know they vii, do of their own accord. They will
be expected to report to me any case deemed worthy of report,
but they must take actions at once, in isohting The Dcrson, screen
ing room, fumigating, etc, With the help Of the cvll officers they
will have all this done, and the County will pay all expenses thus
incurred,
ia physician or a civil Office reports a case whose history
and symptoms are indicative of yellow fever, l will hasten to visit
him but will not notice rumors or unauthorized reports.
H. a. MINOR, NJ. D.,
Chiet Health and Quarantine officer Noxubee County.