The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-28
THE MOSQUITO THEORY.
An Interesting Interview Held With Dr.
 J. M. Lindsley. Aduartiser Bureau,


 J. M. Lindsley.
 \ Advertiser Bureau,
 ! Mobile, July 27.
 pr. I. M. Lindsey arrived here this
 Afternoon from Nashville. Tenn.' enIoule
 to New Orleans to study the conditions
 there. He stopped off in Moplie ior .ae .
 same purpose, and also to shake hanos
 with friends. pr. Lindsley came to Mo
 bile two years ago advocating pr. Hay
 ard, Surgeon General, U. $. A., m ms
 res ,lutton introduced at the Pan Amer
 ican Congress in Havana. that all quai
 antine regulations should be baseo up
 on the theory that the mosquito was
 the only known means by which yellow
 fever could be transmitted. For the mast five years, he declared, this was i, inc only regulation used in preFentlor J of the introduction of yellow 1eVer lnte Afuba under the quarantine omcer. LIT fSarlos J Finlay, the originator or the I ,hosuuito theory, since 1881, and demon ! strated so thoroughly and scientifically
 by Dr. Reed, head of the army com mis ion. In 1890, he said, under thorough cleaning of Havana, yello"
 fever prevailed to considerable eA- tent there being 1,25O cases and 3eo deaths After the demonstration of pr Reed, proving the mosquito could trans init yellow fever they changed their method of fighting 1t, adopting the mosquito bar to prevent the inoculation of mosquitoes and in eight months nae era Heated the fever from Havana
 There is no city on the Gulf coast ex- posed to the fever like Havana, as it . has direct communication with the in' fected Mexican ports. Each season Havana has taken from vessels pa | tients with yellow fever, carried then N through the city under bars to Losan' N mus Hospital, and not single case mas Vieveloped from the patients. It Is no, tlecessary to have a separate hospital Yior treatment of these cases, but tmosquito proof room will preveh' spread of the disease.
 Dr. Lindsley first started the study ' of fever by assisting his father, J. Ser rieu Linisley, who was health of1cel 4 of Nashville in 1S7S-7s, when Nashville l threw open her doors and invited thu \ people to come there Not single cas' 4 originated in that city, and he said l E the same methods used there were car k ried out instead of the unjust, unset entific procedure, as now carried ou in this State, Alabama would have les II chance of an epidemic of fever
 To illustrate, parties coming from ar infected city, say New Orleans. to Mont | gomery, would have a certificate iron New Orleans. That certificate would be countersigned by a representative of Alabama at the inc, a record woult be taken, name and occupation, desti nation Montgomery. On arrival ther' | he wo id report at once to the Mont gomery authorities, stating where h. E would stop in that city. He would b. required to report each day for six day. K to the local health officer If no feve developed the observation wo lid be dis continued If fever developed In tn meantime all precautions would b. taken, s if he had a case of yellow fever part of the city hospital woult be made mosquito proof. and he would be treated there without endangernt the life of any one who came in contac l with him. Yellow fever, Dr. Lindslel said. could only be introduced by al infected mosquito, or person having | yellow fever into community whici has yellow feve-, mosquitoes that trans ] init the disease. At a meeting of the A. P. H. Gu! Tonight, F. J. Lyons in the chair, afte Itroutint business, d motion Was mad Hoy A. Wade that the services of tn kimembers, in event The worst sh3ulC /fcome here, be tendereI the Can't Ge
 {Away Club of Mo bile. The club ha
 }everteen men bers, all well knowI