Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-08-01
HE VISITS YELLOW
JACK IN His LAIR
Special Commissioner Of This Paper Goes Straight
Into the Danger Zones to See How the
Disease is Being Fought
IMMUNE CORRESPONDENT FINDS BRAVE YOUNG GIRLS
ACTING AS NURSES AND FLINCHING AT NOTHING

oiler or scheened with fine wire, at
cost of 81 each. The various wards
have organized citizens associations,
and every gutter is being oiled the
same way as the cisterns. After
every rain this oiling OF cutters is
repeated.
If patient is found in an unsani
tary home, he is tagen Immediately,
under a mosquito-netted cot, to the
yellow fever hospital, which is in the
French quarter, where the yellow
fever has been almost wholly confined
up to date.
This hispital is provided with double
screen doors and window openings,
and each cot inside is additionally
netted with the fine string gauze. Py-
rethrum powder is burned inside OF
the hospital twice a day, and it kills
all stray mosquitoes that might get
through the double-screened openings.
This powder is pleasant to the human
smell, and is of the same material out
of which Chinese joss sticks are
made.
The nurses nearly all come from the
Charity hospital, one of the Oldest
medical institutions in the United
States. These young girls are anx-
ious to take part in the work, and do
not hesitate or finch.
All nurses immune are given first
preference. An immune" nurse or
individual, is one who has had the
| yellow fever, and therefore, cannot
| take it again. The nurses get uni
| formly S. a day. The citizens have
raised fund and there is plenty of
| money available.
A yellow fever patient becomes a
dirty yellow as soon as the fever
strikes him. One takes it suddenly,
with violent headache, hysteria, and
pains in the back. The distinction
between this sort of fever and 9TH
ers, is that the pulse goes down as
the temperature goes up, and the
pulse generally goes so low in marked
, cases that there the greatest dan
! ger lies. Champagne is generally
given to keep the pulse up.
A yellow fever patient generally
dies within f1om five to seven days.
If they do not die in that length OF
time, they have very great chances
for recovery. 1t takes five days for
the fever to incubate in fresh sub
ject, and all quarantines are fixed for
at least this length of time, and gen
orally for six or seven days.
| 1t is now generally considered an
exploded theory that yellow fever is
Nth disease. During former cpl
denies it was looked upon as en-
| tirely a filth disease. Havana was
ridded of yellow fever on the mos
quito theory.
Nurses and doctors here mingle
freely with well people.
There is not the least excitement
among the citizens and all signs of
the usual panic are absent because
of the newly accepted theory which
has been adopted by the United
! States public health and marine hos
pital service, which has opened an
office here under the charge of DR..
j. II. White.
The city board of health is the head
of all the anti-mosquito and inspection
work.
The fever was imported here from
Belize, British Honduras, where
through the failure of health officials
TO promptly report the appearance of
the disease, 225 passengers were al
lowed to land in New Orleans before
strict quarantine regulations were en-
forced.