Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-08-25

Lone Star state has so far failed to
back up with the rifles and bayonets
and cannons of it's militia. Border
towns in Alabama and Arkansas have
also met the refugees from Louisiana
with shotguns and turned them back
or imprisoned them In quarantine
camps. Even as far north as Tennes-
see and southern Illinois the quaran-
tine Is maintained to certain extent,
but in these latter districts it is a |
modified quarantine and without the
menacing adjunct of shotguns or bayo.
nets Memphis, it may be recalled, has |
as much reason as any city in the
world to impose a rigorous quarantine
in times of danger from yellow fever,
as, with perhaps the exceptions of New
Orleans and Philadelphia no other city
in the world has been scourged SO
dreadfully or so nearly depopulated
from yellow fever as has Memphis. In
the yellow jack" epidemics of gen
Grafton ago, when the people of New
Orleans were dying like flies, the pop
ulation of Memphis was being deci-
mated almost equally as fast. But that
was before science had come to the
rescue by stepping to the front and
showing that this greatest of yellow
| perils might be controlled and elimi-
mated by simply controlling or eXter-
minating certain fly-the female of a
certain mosquito family which science
discovered was the only possible prop
agator of the deadly, but as yet uni
Identified, germ of yellow fever.
Draining of swamps contiguous to
this city and the raising of the grade
of it's streets to a height that would
permit drainage by underground sew
ers, to replace the present surface sew
ers, are advocated by many as desira-
BILE steps in the crusade against the
infectious Mrs. Mosquito. Indeed, there
are many improvements of this sort
planned and portions of them are in
course of construction. The pro-
gramme is for complete sanitary
system of water works and sewers, the
cost to be $16,000,000 But it will take
three years or more before this great
and much-needed improvement can be
finished.
may OI1 All SWaInpS.
Whether any plan may be found for
rendering the great swamps to the
southeast and south of this city unde-
sirable places as breeding grounds for
the countless myriads of mosquitoes
that swarm into our streets and homes
and business houses when the wind is
blowing inland must be considered one
n tho
a leans and the state of Louisiana will
: nave to deal with in the near future
Outsiders may consider that we are
never immune so long as we are ex.
posed to these two things-the capri.
, ciousness of the winds of heaven anG
!. the fecundity of the mosquito tribe
that domiciles in the irreclaimablt
swamps of our coast. But our case
nevertheless, is not hopeless. Thi:
great state will find way to meet al
dlf1iculties. 1t is rich enough and en-
terprising enough to oil all the swamp,
OF our coast every year and it may dc
that very thing if this years test O.
the mosquito theory" proves its en-
tire correctness.
In response to the appeal of the cit,
or New Orleans, the federal govern
ment promptly look charge of the figh
against the yellow fever, and Surgeon
General Walter Weyman, head of tn,
United States marine hospital service
and his splendid corps of trained help
ers, are Waging battle royal day an,
night to stamp out the scourge. TIL
city authorities are lending the hearti
est cooperation and the defense fund O
\ Sl5O,OOO asked by the government t.
0 eNterminate the disease has beel
! raised
Though generally people are willin,
to submit to the regulations of tn
health authorities, there are some VIII
refuse to believe in the mosquit
theory and VINO oppose the oiling O
their cisterns and the cleansing O
their premises. The Era club members
who are women, have Volunteered t
proselyte among this class of the com
munity.
There is a mosquito ordinance tha
requires landlords to screen cistern!
Fine or Imprisonment is the penalt
for refusal to obey the ordinance Yer
few houses in the city are without ci.
terms, and 10000 to $4,000 of them wi
be screened. The city is now spendin
$l6,OOO,0O0 upon water and sewerae
system which. when completed. wi
require the abandonment of all els
u terms. 1t will. however, be two {
le three years before this system is
au operation and III the interval the oi
30 ing and screening process will be e.
IN sential if the breeding places of IL
OIL fever-bearing mosquito are to |
le- wiped out.
'n Famous Investigation in Havana.
The famous investigation made
su Havana in 1900 and 1901 by the Amer
w can military commission, composed
" Maj. w. Reed, NJ. D., and Drs. ], Ca
es roll, A. Argamonte and Jesse w. Ii
III zear, established the mosquito theol