Show EXPERIMENTS SHOW MOSQUITOES TO BLAME i FOR THE SPREAD OF YELLOW FEVER h Jan Tan 16 10 The American com corn g under tha thu tk superintendence of Dr Reed which has been making ex cx experiments at as to the props prop of yellow fever germs germa by the mosquIto has bas obtained extremely sat At ry results Dr Reed Read R d says Itty the ex experiments Dt show allow beyond a doubt that th there Is Iii no cents conta contagion glen gion I f f from front an infected person pentOn or from Infected clothing but that the mosquitoes toes to alone are responsible for tor the spread of the tho disease In the course of or the commissions Investigation six mune mime person were Infected direct t by bythe byte the te bIte of at a mosquito which had pre previously vl bitten bit ten yellow fever patients and d five Ie of these theoe developed infection I The Ibe last experiment t made proved Dr Reed contends the j i theory of propagation o by mosquitoes A Ai i special building lI ng was constructed of die dis disinfected i infected material and anel one of or the rooms divided Into two sections by a wire screen In one section were I placed pla disinfected bedding and cloth clothing 1 jug ing and in the he other bedding and i ij j from the yellow fever hospital ho Which h had not been disinfected Two o on n nes occupied the two sections In the former form r were put several in footed ted mosquitoes The patient remain remained ed eti in this room only long enough to be bitten and in tour days a pronounced case of yellow fever developed The I patient is not convalescent The other subject slept in the in j i footed b bed d for many nights and has not the th fever leer j j Both patients have been sleeping for lor 1 twenty nights in garments worn by yellow fever victims and in bedding from the yellow fever hOB hospital Dr Reed says that th they y are growing fat and that in no instance in the course I of or the commissions s investigations has bas hasa a case e of yellow enow fever developed from exposure Ure from infected or ir clothing |