The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1922-11-16

FROM JednereLIe we proceeded, there
fore, to New iberia, and after we had
satisfied ourselves as to the prevalence
Of the insects, DIR. Carstens formulated
a warning and advisory note to the peo-
pie in the shape of handbills, which
were to be distributed the same after
noon, and presumably have been. Up to
date no cases have been reported from
that town. The main prophylactic
measure, emphasized in these hand
bills, was the destruction of Aedes
aegypti on the premises; secondly,
the protection of patients, should any
cases occur, against them, and third,
general cleaning up Of houses and
premises.
The next town visited by us was
Franklin, where we found conditions
almost identical with those in Jeaner-
cite. Accompanied by DR.. Beverly
Smith, we made tour Of the. town,
visited five recently reported cases, all
presenting more or less typical infec-
tions. These five cases represented
practically three widely separated foci.
New cases were being reported daily.
The prevalence of the mosquito was de-
terInined by us under the same cOndi-
tions as it had been in Jeanerette. DIR.
Smith readily agreed with us on the
measures of eradication
We returned to New Orleans on the
evening Of September 18th.
On September 14th we proceeded to
Shreveport. Unfortunately, the City
Health Officer, DR.. Chandler, had left
the city for prolonged absence. Find
ing ourselves, therefore, without off,
cial authority for clinical inyestiga-
tons, we called on DR.. w. F. Morrill,,
the superintendent of the Shreveport
Charity Hospital, and in that institu-
ton we found all the corrob0rative
evidence necessary. This evidence is
applicable to the whole city Of Shreve-
port. DIR. Morrill, Informed us Of having
had thirty-five cases, nurses and in
ternes included, on the sick list Of the
hospital. Aedes aegypti were found by
not only swarIning in the laboratories,
but Were brought to us for identified
tion by the inferno students who had
captured them in the various wards
Furthermore, the larvae and pupae
We're offered to us as coroborative ex-
hibits. We deemed the conditions as
found by us in an institution of that
kind indicative enough for the entire
city, where the disease was already
epidemic, but nevertheless we proceed
ed to inspect two separated negro quar-
ters Of the city, in company with DR..
Morrill,, in the afternoon. Numerous
cases had occurred in these localities
and we had no difficulty in finding
breeding places with larvae and adult
mosquitoes Of the Aedes species
In Lake Charles: We called on the
City Health Officer, DR.. Martin, and
accompanied by him. made several in
yeStigatiOns Of new cases among the
white as well as colored people. In
one Of these premises the mosquitoes
ca. aegypti) We're being bred in the
water pitcher in the front bedroom.
We investigated particularly thickly
crowded negro quarter with all the at
tending filth and abject misery. But
there was no difficulty in recognizing
the prevalent disease from the crude
recitation of the history Of the case by
the patient or the attendants.
From Lake Charles we made another
visit to Jeanerette to investigate case
Of black volnit reported to have occur
req in the practice Of DIR. Morvant, the
Coroner. DR.. Tarieton, however, In
formed us by telephone that the case
had been a hemorrhage from the ton
sils; the immediate cause of the hem
orrhage was not specified. The case
was claimed to have already recovered.
Deeming our investigations as Ell
tirely adequate and convincing as far
as the clinical aspects of the disease
| and, above all, the means Of disscmina-
ton were concerned. we returned to
New Orleans.
The conclusions which we have
reached in connection with Dengue fe.
We: are:
/. That 1t is, like yellow fever, a
| mosquito-borne disease.
2. That Aedes aegypti, L.. formerl.
known as Stegomyia fasciata, Stego-
myia calopus, house mosquito, day mos
quito, little gray mosquito and yellow
| fever mosquito, is the sole agent in the
transmission Of the disease.
3. That the only means Of eradica.
| tion of either yellow fever or Dengue
fever is to he accomplished BY the de
struction of that insect and its breeding
| places.
4. That the same measures adopted
in 1905 against yellow fever are also
indicated in Dengue.
| In conclusion we beg to state that
there exists at the present moment a
great deal Of confusion in regard Il
the identity Of the species OF Culex er
roneously supposed to carry Dengue
According to the very highest authority
of the present day OH mosquitoes, DIR
Harrison G. Dyar, of the Bureau o1
Entomology in Washington, Culex fati
gans, Wied. does not occur on the Wes
tern Hemisphere, and it is the specie.
which Graham in 1903 is supposed II
have convicted Of carrying Dengue ii
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