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Show H Let Us Awake! H The great trouble that threatened ow H army h Cuba ever ten yean ago was H the yellow fever. It was mere disastrous H to our soldiers than the battle field and 1 caused greater consternation than did H M Qut the army medical corps sent a H young doctor down there to work on tlus problem. Two houses were built, 1 wkh double screen doors and protected H by wire netting. H In one house bed-clothing from fever H patients of Havana was put Ventila H lion was purposely made bad, but mo- H quitos were carefully excluded. Soldiers H volunteered to live in this room and they H thought sure that there existed an ideal H condition to take the disease, but not H one caught it. H The second house was called the mos H quito house. Everything in it was care- H fully disinfected. Two rooms were H screened separately On one side fifteen H mosqukos that had bitten yellow fever H patients were liberated. They bit one H of the volunteer, he was soon dewa H witli the fever, but luckily did not d'e. m On the other side of the screen two H soldiers remained all the time, but did H not contract the disease, being under the H same conditions, with the exception B of the absence of mosquito. s H We are satisfied that the fly can carry H typhoid as we are that the mosquitos car- H ties the gtfrms of yellow feyer when they H have bitten a patient sick with the dis- H ease. And the very important thing for H us to do is to guard against the flies by H excluding them from the house and also H to destroy any brccdinw places that we H might have about the place. The Board H of health in their visits have found a most H deplorable condition with privies, corrals H and barns. H On some premises the manure is over H two feet thick and the privies have not H been cleaned, judging by their looks, for H months and months. H Tlic typhoid season is on; are we go- H ing .to be too negligent this year in these H matters and have another epidemic? Let H us take prklc in our places and keep H them cleaned up. H Just as sure as that manure is left in Hj the barnyard, fust that sure will thousands H of flies find a breeding place there, and H as soon as they migrate they will hunt H eut the filth and refuse to eat, and it will H not be long before they will find a place H where disinfection WM not, carried out H properly and then they will become laden H with the germs of typhoid and carry it to Hj us and to our children, through alighting H on the food and other ways. H Let us awake and prevent this H horrible sickness and death. BOARD OF HEALTH. |