Show S Is A Abandoned Fumigation Being I N October of last Jast year the New York I IN Board of Health ordered the discontinuance discontinuance dis dis- continuance of at fumigation after diphtheria diphtheria diphtheria theria measles and all aU other Infectious in infectious infectious in- in diseases except smallpox in inthe tho the boroughs of the Bronx BroIl Queens and Richmond The results were so 80 satisfactory satisfactory satisfactory satis satis- factory that this thia year the borough of Manhattan was added to those exempt while fumigation was maintained in Brooklyn Tho The New York Medical Journal sums Bums up the tho first results of at this experiment as follows In Manhattan there were reported in March 1914 1608 cases of ot measles with three fifty deaths and in March 1915 1916 in the absence of fumigation 1357 1357 1357 1 cases with fifteen deaths In Brooklyn with fumigation continued 1652 cases of measles were reported In March 1915 1916 against 1413 in March 1914 The significance of at these figures gures becomes becomes becomes be be- comes apparent when It Is learned that in the city as a whole including fumi furni- I gated and non-fumigated non districts the num number er of cases of measles from January Janu Janu- ary to April exceeded the corresponding correspond correspond- ing log number in 1914 was Wu about bout the tho same as a. in 1913 and was wal muc much than In the corresponding period of ot 1912 A comparison of ot tho the mortality rates in Brooklyn for ih the whole year 1915 with those thoo of at tor former or years will win enable one to determine whether any Rny rise or fall in the mortality In theother theother the theother other boroughs ii Is due to the discontinuance discontinuance discon discon- of fumigation or would have haTe occurred under any circumstances S SIn In the opinion of at the New York Board of at Health it ft is ia far tar more important import import- ant to and repaint a room than it Jt is to fumigate It after atter an infectious disease Dr A. A A. A H H. Doty for man many years Health Officer of the Port of at New York is convinced that fumigation fumigation tion is 18 ineffective and unnecessary as a. asit asit it does not destroy the germs erms the contagion contagion contagion con con- haying having in most cases disappeared disappeared pear d by br the tho time the patient re- re covers S |