The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-10-06
Says Fever Cannot Be Reduced
Unless Some People Come
TO Their Senses,
A SEVERE ARRANGEMENT OF
THAT CLASS OF CITIZENS WHO
THINK THEY KNOW MORE
ABOUT YELLOW FEVER THAN
THE DOCTORS DO.

Editor Pensacola Journal:
/ wish to say to the people Of Pen
sacOla in regard to the fever si.ua-
ton chat the best that we can hope
for at the present time. ia my opinion,
is TO keea the number Of cases re
duced until we are relieved by frost
If IL was possible to get the hearty
cooperation Of our citizens We could
probably stamp out the fever in three
Of four weeks at the outside, but 1t
seems that il is an impossibility, and
that some of the people Of Pensacola
are Ike some Of the children In the
wilderness:
When Moses lifted up a serpent
which they could look upon and be
healed there were some Ot them that
were so stubborn that before they
would look upon te serpent and be
healed they would look down upon the
ground and Gle.
Would Be Free Of Fever.
Had the people Of Pensacola az
cepted the decree OF fate in the early
history Of the fever, AMI assisted the.
health authorities. as all good cisi-
zens should do. I do not hesitate to-
say that Pensacola would today boI
without a single case Of yellow fever,
but IL seems that some who should
know better, and others who have
never seen the inside Of a book on
medicine in their lives knew more
about It than those VINO had given
the matter a life study. and a deter
mined opposition has been made by|
these people which has resulted in
infesting this town with infected mos
quitoes.
Lives Depend on II.
I hereby call upon ali Of the citi-
zens OF Pensacola, whoever they may
be, co cease their opposition to the
health authorities and 20 lend them
every aid possible in the eXtermina
ton Of the mosquitoes. The lives NJ
our people depend upon it, and we have
laid people in che cemeteries who
would be alive and wei today, ard
happy among their friclds and rela-
tives, were it not for the determined
opposition that the health authorities
have met with from the beginning.
Logic Of Common Sense.
When you want to get watch fixed
you Go not take it TO a butcher. nor
a baker, noc a ditch digger, but you
take ii to a wacch MAKER, and you
would think a man crazy who wOull
do otherwise When YOU want t0|
learn something about astronomy yoc
would not go TO a man who never
al h.. rrr|
bodies than 60 tell the sun and TIE
moon and the stars from one another, /
and knows nothing of the rules that
govern these bodies. but you would
go TO some person who Is learned ia
these things and accept what they
tell you as facts. and If an astrOnon-I
or tells YOU that an eclipse viii occur Z
In a year. or in the next ten years on
a certain day al a certain hour, yOu
would believe him. You would he
called a fool if you did not
Now, why make the distinction in
the matter Of the science of medi-
cine? Why not accept the accom-
of physicians who have
made a LIES study Of yellow fever?
What to Do.
I am nor going to ,ttempt TO al,
wise YOU how TO treat yellow fever as
that is not my business. / am nc
going 10 tel You what YOU must de-,
and what YOU must not 90. but l an
going 20 insist that each citizen, when
q case Of fever appears In yOur home.
for the protection Of yourself, ard
your loved ones. and tie neighbOrs,
and the community at large, that you
10 not hesitate a moment to calf a
The mosquito theory, or as some
people are prone to call il, dogma"
Is not a theory any longer. nor is It a
dogma but an established fact. and
has been demonstrated in the ex.N-
snce Of tha fever in this city.
I am willing 10 admit, as one, that
everything has possibly not been dore,
Is ii had oEght 10 be done, that mis-
axes have been made. but this is not
he time to criticise Let us get rid
IF the fever and make our criticisms,
! freely confess that 1
lave lost q great deal Of faith in fuc,i-
cation by sulphur but If the authori-l
les wish &c fumigate with sulphur
hey shall have my hearty support
Externinate Mosquitoes.
Now. viii endeavor % give little
.dvice TO those about the city who
wish 70 kill the mosquitoes in their
ZONES. have been reliably informed
hat If one viii take amOnia, wh,cn
AN be purchased for a few cents a
gallon al the ice works, and sprinElel
1 freely about the nOoms, or place It'll
n vessels about the rooms. and viii
lose the room for an hour or so thel