The border vidette., 1920-10-02
YELLOW FEVER SCARE.
MT. Hunt of Culiacan Says Should Be
 Taken With Grain of Salt

week several days, will be of interest to many readers Of THE BORDER VIDETTE in the States and Mexico:
 The statement having appear ed this morning in local paper that Yellow Fever has appeared in Culiacau, the writer wishes to say:
 That he left Culiacan Sept. 18th, that being his place of residence, anu has been there all the time since January, eX cept for short trips out over Sipaloa; that since early in Au gust articles have been appear ing in both the Culiacan and Mazatlan papers concerning an isting in both cities, sometimes as news articles, sometimes as contributions by local doctors; that the Presidente Municipal sometime in August asked the different doctors of the city, all of them if ] remember correctly, and certainly several of them, to investigate the matter and report. and especially to report any suspicious cases occurring in their own practices; that some of the doctors reported that Yellow Fever did exist, and they were treating patients at such and such houses; that others re ported that no Yellow Fever existed, in thelr opinion, but @ very serious form of Malaria EemOrrhagica," and cases of the same were under their care; the written report of Dr. W. D. Lang Ford, British Hindu sub ject, educated in Calcutta and Chicago in his profession, a pro- minent mem Der of the English Speaking colony, and the writ CTS family physician for about @ dozen years, rendered his report to the Presidente, to the general effect that he also was caring for number of the suspicious cases, but that his diagnosis was positive and clear beyond a doubt in bis own mind, as nal aria hemorrhagice;" that the one and only symptom which resem- bled the well known symptoms of Yellow Fever is the vomit, dark, coming from the blood discharge from the mucous mem- brane surfaces of the stomach, but that even that vomit had some characteristics differentiat ing it from the Yellow, Fever vonit, and that in every other symptom there was entire lack of correspondence with the Yel low Fever symptoms; that he had personally treated Yellow Fever in other places and was positive about his diagnosis in this epidemic; that among the quite numerous cases occurring were mum bers of young child ren, under 12 years of age, and he called attention to the fact that Yellow Fever practically does not occur among children under 12, even in the most sev- ere epidemicS, for reasons the but something about a lack of fbrin in the blood of a child up to that age, and the fever bug or germ requires that fibrin for it's existence or development; some other doctors, the only name occurring being that of Dr.. -, who is one of the leading local physicians agreed with Dr. Lang Ford in his diagnosis, and it was noted that those who made Yellow Fever diagnosis in both Culia can and Mazatlan were the l younger members of the prOfes sion, who have never treated | Yellow Fever, and are the same ones who made the Yellow Fever diagnosis of this same epidemic, during it's course, all the way from Guaymas to Topic, last
 winter, especially severe about TOrin, Sonora, Fl Dorado and Mazatlan, Sinaloa, and Santiago Ixcuintla, Nayarit.
 In both Culiacan and Maza- tlan for more than month there has been quite a controversy over this subject in the local dailies, some doctors taking one side and some the other; the writer has been clipping those articles from the local papers and sending them to his partners and friends and business aSsO-