Connecticut western news., 1914-06-04
SAVING DISEASE
 PERILED REFUGEES
Wonderful Work of Quarantine Station In tha Mississippi.
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 Map an Aid to Doctors.
 One result of the taking and occu- patton of the port of Vera Cruz. Mex leo, by the American forces has been to draw attention to the fact that the United States has the most complete and largest quarantine station of any country in the world. It is located in the Mississippi river and is known as the New Orleans quarantine station. although 1t is in fact ninety-one miles below New Orleans. It is described by Wingrove Bathon in the Washing. ton Star. Surgeon c. NJ. Corput, United States public health service. who is in charge, to be worth about $o00,000.
 Over the desk of Surgeon Corput in the administration building of the sta- ton there Is huge map of the world. showing every port, and into the spaces indicated by the names of these ports on this great map are stuck pins with colored heads, each indicating one of the terrible diseases which modern science has learned to prevent and in many cases to conquer. another for ;leprosy, another for plague, another for smallpox. another for typhus fever and still another for yellow fever. The latter. Yellow Jack" as it was formerly styled in whispers in and around New Orleans. no longer carries with it to the men of the public health service the fear its name once aroused. for, as Surgeon Corput put it. Yellow fever in the temperate zones does not frighten us much"
 Why Yellow Fever Kills So Many.
 'If can get hold of yellow fever the first day." he said, 'I can save all but about per cent of the cases. Neglect has always been the cause of most of the deaths in yellow fever cases"
 At Aguascalientes, Mexico. several years ago there were at one time 30,- 900 cases of smallpox out of a popu- lation of about G0,000 Deaths were at the rate of GOO or TOO a day.
 In recent months there have been no great outbreaks of this or any other quarantinable. disease in these Mexl- can cities, so far as reported, but in these cities there are always sporadic cases. In Vera Cruz when the core spondent left that port numbers of pa tients were being taken to the hos pitals each day suffering with small. pox. The Mexican peon thinks no more of having smallpox than the American at home does of being laid up with heavy cold.
 The idea of the quarantine station, of course. is to met" passengers con- ing up from South and Central Ameri- ca or Cuba with any of these quaran- Unable diseases, to isolate them. to cure them and. above all. to prevent them from communicating their dis ease to other passengers on the ships or from taking it into the United States.
 Except for the want of something to do to occupy the time the Mississippi river quarantine station is a pleasant enough place, at least during the day. At night life is more exciting, for then begins struggle for existence, which resolves itself into battle royal be- tween mosquitoes (which some people say are of the size of canary birdsl and human beings, which often literal ly leaves the humans gasping for breath after their exertions.
 Mosquito Proof Tents.
 This mosquito pest has made neces- sary the building at the quarantine sta ton during the rush of refugees of what are called burglar proof tents" These tents are completely screened with wire from their wooden floors to their canvas tops. Entrance is through screen door. The tents are laid out in company streets" as at military encampment, and water has been piped to the end of each short street. Each tent is equipped with four cots, wash bowls and pitchers and stools. A family consisting of a mother, father and two or three children is given a tent to itself. If there are four young men, not otherwise attached, they are given a tent to themselves, or if there are four unattached women or girls they are given tent to themselves. There is a male and female section.
 The New Orleans quarantine station was established at It's present site by the state of Louisiana in 1888 and was then known as ths Mississippi river quarantine station. In 1910 title passed to the United States.
 Prizes For Humane Traps.