Ogden Sun | 1905-08-08 | Page 1 | Yankees Deserve Credit

YANKEES DESERVE CREDIT for the discovery of how yellow fever Is transmitted new york aug 7 according to brigadier general ansons arsons chief of ordnance of louisiana it will DC five days before new orleans will face a crisis in the yellow fever situa alon general arrived here from the south last night new orleans is suffering more from commercial anxiety said he but residents af the pity feel that the health and ahe various committees aided by the federal authorities will cope with the fever in the meantime business in that section of the state Us still at a standstill unfair discrimination Is being made against louisiana by other states and her commercial interests are suffering in consequence tha city Is opposed to the parishes and the parishes are arrayed against one another with the shotgun quarantine the mosquito which carried the disease breeds in clean stagnant water new york is sate I 1 am sure by this time new orleans is protected the exodus from new orleans Is a little more than is amual at this the year white commercial interests are paralyzed now I 1 think that the situation will clear within two we will stamp out the disease sir patrick manson K C M G medical adviser of the british colonial office who is here on his way to san francisco declares that mosquitoes are among the greatest curses of mankind we are yet in the infancy he said of the discoveries of the transmission of such diseases by insects but in the matter of yellow fever infection all credit should be given to the yankees who went ahead of our eminent pen and demonstrated that tho myla was the vehicle that caused all the trouble it there Is not there should be a law in every stats making it a criminal offense to a high degree to fall to report the prevalence oa caad of yellow fever tho slightest attempt atcon at con ceal ment by a physician should be followed by summary punishment