The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-03
SAVING DISEASE
 PERILED REFUGEES
Wonderful Work of Quarantine Station In tllG Mississippi.
IS LARGEsT IN THE WORLD.

CT pans by Which It conbats Worst Fszrsa PIasuss and Fsvers Furnish Striking illustration of the Achieve rnsnts of Modern seisnee--uniauo Map an Aid to Doetors-
 One result of the taking and Occus patton of the port of Vera CruHs Mex fco, 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 county in the world It 15 1ocased 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 Wfngrove Bathon in the Washing ton Star
 Here theFe 1s a plant estimated by Surgeon c M. Corput, United States public health service, who IS in charge, to be worth about $200,O0O.
 Over the desk of Surgeon Corput in the administration building of the sta- tion there is a 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 1earzled to prevent and in many eases to conquer. There fs pin of one color for cholera another for leprosy, another for plague. another for sna1lpoxs another for typsaus fever and still another for yellow fever. The hitter, Yellow Jack.n as 1t was formerly styled in whispers in and around New O1.leang,. no logger carries with it to the men of the public health service the fear ftH name once aroused, for, as Surgeon Corput put it, Yellow fever m the temperate zones does not frtghten us much-~
 Why YeIIovv Fovor R<ilIa Sc Many.
 eff can get hold of yellow fever the first day he said. s'I can save all but about ? per cent of the cases. Neglect has always been the cause of most of the deaths in VelIow fever eases.
 At Aguascalientes, Mexico. several years ago there were at one time 30,- GOO cases of smallpox out of a popu- Iati0n Of about 6O.OOO. Deaths vera at the rate of 600 or TOO day.
 Tn recent months there have been no great outbreaks of this or any other u11aranffnable disease h these 1Texi- 70 n -AtAt11s S- Alll dI ArAy<A-7l<5<As JUL 4-+ these cities there are always sporadic cases In Vera Cruz when the core spondent left that port numbers of pa- tfents were being taken to the hos pitfalls each day suffering with small pox The Mexican peon thinks no more of having smallpox thfn the American mt home does of being laid up with heavy cold.
 The idea of the quarantine Btatfon, of course, is to qnet'' passengers com ing un from South and Central Anaeri- ca or Cuba with any Of thesa quaran- Unable diseases. to Isolate them, to cure them and, above alB to prevent them from communicating their dis ease to other passengers on the ships or from taking it into the United States
 Except Cor the want of something Id do to occna the time the Mis- sissippl river quarantine station is a pleasant enough place, at least during &le day. At night life is more exciting, for then begins 8 struggle for existence. which resolves itself into a battle royal be tween mosquitoes (which some people say are of the size of canary birds) and human beings, which often literal ly leaves the humans gaBpfna for breath after their exert1ons.
 McBauito PPceF Tents.
 This mosquito pest has made neces' s1ry the building at the quarantine sta ion during the rush of refugees oi what are called .sburglar proof tents.' These tents are completely screened with wire from their wooden floors te thelx canvas tops. Entrance is through a screen door The tents are laid out in scompahy streets as at a military encampments and water has beer piped tp the end of eaeh short street Each tent is equipped with four cots wash bowls and pitchers and stools. 4 family consisting of a mother, fathel and two or three children is given { tent te itself If there are fouz. younE men, hot otherwise attached, they ars givenla tent to themselves, or if there are 4our unattached women or girls they are given tent to theraselves There ts & male and female section
 The New Orleans quarantine statlor was eztnblfsned at it's present site by the state of Louisiana in 1888 and wal then known as the Mississippi riveI quarantine station In 1910 title passed to the United States.