Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1905-08-13

TWO days have been in the French
quarter, where the yellow fever is rag
ing the tiercest
have been with the doctors in their
mousse to house tours of inspection
and with the nurses in the yellow
fever hospital
wanted TO find out just what Kind
OF fight is being put up by the author
tiles against the threatened epidemic.
and was able to invade the danger
zones because am immune
found that the routine for hunt
ing out yellow fever cases has been
reduced to an exact science The
city of $50 900 Inhabitants is divided
into small districts of four squares
each. An inspector, appointed by the
city board of health, makes a house
to house inspection every tWenty-four
hours.
All supicious cases are Immediately
reported, and in fact all cases of i'll
! ness. that they may be investigated,
if for no other reason. All physicians
in the city. of which the city is ex-
ceptionally we'll supplied, also agreed
to report Immediately each and every
case to the city board
The inspectors are made up of med
ical students and those who have had
the greatest amount of experience
with yellow fever during the former
epidemics. the last of which began
here in 1897
As soon as q case is reported under
suspicion, if the patient lives in his
Cwn home and that home is in a good
sanitary condition, his bed is immedi
ately ineloseh with the finest OF mos
quito netting.
AS most beds here are already thus
guarded fer the ordinary convenience
Of sleopers this is not an Innovation
Any traveller familiar with New Or
posts and the mosquito bars which
are carefully drawn every nieht.
Within recent years a eraat many Of
The better class Of residences arc
screened against the MOSQUITO with
copper wire.
AS there are practically no house
flies here, the screens arc put ZIP eS-
pccially to guard AGAINST mosquitoes
Many porches are screened in 10 Al
low the citizens and their families
free air to breathe during The even
ing.
Every reputable physician in New
Orleans, with a very few exceptions,
has accepted The mosquito theory,
that is that yellow fever is transml-
ted only by the mosquito and by but
one species at that-the steGomyia
fasciata, as the scientists say. This
is the mosquito with the striped body
like a tiger, and only the females are
said to bite.
: A mosquito of this species lives
two months, and as q rule, only bites
il the day time. He is a house pro
duct and breeds in the open cisterns,
which here are built above the
ground. and in northern cities would
be called tanks, which they are, be-
ing made of cypress wood or Of gal
vanized iron.
A teacup full of Oil on the top OF
one of these ciSterns prevents any
mosquitoes from Matching. All els
terms here now are being either thus
| { lied or screened with fine wire, at {
have organized citizens associations
and every gutter is being oiled tbs
same way as the cisterns. After
every rain this oiling of cutters Is
repeated.
If a patient is found in an unsan
itary home. he is taken Immediately
under mosquito-netted cot, to tht
yellow fever hospital which is in thu
French quarter, where the yellow
fever has been almost wholly confined
Up to date
> This hospital is provided witt
: double screen doors and window open
ings, and each cot inside is addition
: ally netted with the fine string gauze
Pyrethrum powder is burned inside
: the hospital twice a day, and it kill
: all stray mosquitoes that might &c
: through the double-screened openings
: This powder is pleasant to the huma
+ smell. and is of the same material GU
: of which Chinese joss sticks ar
: made.
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