The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-09-11
anti MOSQUITO FIGHT
What Government is DOirg
to Stamp Out Yellow
Fever.

Special to Daiiy Leader.
New Orleans, sept ll--The real yell
low fever situation IN New orleans and
surrounding country Is so gene,auy mis-
understood that Surgeon j. n. White.
Of the marine hospital service IN charge
here for the federal government. has
deemed it advisable to request the pub
licaton Of the following statement
showing, IN hriaf what has hoen done
and what il being done in the mat
ter Of checking the spread % th0 distase
and IN suppressing &c. The same meth
ods, adapted to local conditions, that
Were employed at Havana with perfect
success are being employed here. and Or.
White asserts without reservation that
the warfare on the stegomyia faciata, or
fever bearing mosquito. which is being
relsntlessly waged. canrot fail II car
ried to conclusion. ard that IS just what
the government Is firmiy. determined TO
DO Dr. white says that there is but one
way to prevent the spread Of yellow fever
and that is by the destruction of all
striped legged mosquitoes in every com
munity. This is easily done by the de-
struction, screening or oiling Of all pools.
cisterrs or recsptacles Of clear water in
each community whore these mosquitoes
iheed and by the fumigatlon Of all
houses in order TO XIII all live mosqui
toes. After this IS done no community
need have the least fear of the disease
spreading even should It get in. The
Idisease Is not carried. as was once sup
posed. by the air or in freights. clothing
cessfuly fight She disease shotgun quar-
anfmos are by no means as cfticacious
as screening cistems and draining stag
pant pools, and the killing Of live mos
quitoes by funigation. "Just as soon
as the people of the South begin to worl;
along these lines. wholesouled and heart.
! ily. just as they are doing in New Or
leans and some other places, yellow fever
epidemics VIII become memories in tho
United states, just as they have i'm lia-
vana," said Dr. White Continuing, he
said: with regard TO the success OF
the work attending the The present ighi
| in New Orleans on the part of the public
health and United States marine hos
pital service together with the city and
state boards OF health. the record speaks
| FOR itself on July % we began to assist
the local and state authorities as volun
tecrs and some days later assumed full
control. Up 20 the fifth of Angus; the
conditions were equal TO those IN 1879
and a little in the lead On Aug we
Z cd a total of 119 deaths to IFS i'm 1878.
Ion Aug rs. a week later. a big drop
was recorded. there being but l16 deaths
as against 239 in 1873. On Aug % we
had 219 deaths as against 53i in jS1S,
ana ON Aug. 80 there were 2T1 cases
against S67 in 1873 while on Sept.
only 293 deaths had occurred. On the
same date. IN 1878, there were 1882 deaths
or nearly five times the number this
/ year.
'"rhe effect Of the systematic work of
the government began to become appar-
ent about August u, and from that time
! to tho present there has been not only
! a very marked but a very preciptate
decrease in cases and deaths as compared
to 1878"
The federal government. through thu
wonderful success Of its work here ha'
already won tue confidence Of the people
Dr. White asserts that had the anti
mosquito campaign been started last
spring instead Of after the fever had OBJ