HEALTH
D., H. E. Dearholt, M.
Health Ey H. E. DEAR HOLT, M. D. Director, Health Instruction Bureau, University of Wisconsin Eitetsion Division MEXICAN MENACE VERA CRUZ, now prominent in the news dispatches, has been a...
...In many instances inhabitants had to be forced, at the point of a bayonet, to submit to having their lives saved...
...Colonel Gorgas, the sanitarian of the Canal zone (who deserves as much credit as anyone for the successful construction of the Panama canal) says that "the next generation will look upon yellow fever parasites as we do on three-toed horses—as animals that existed in the past without any possibility of reappearing on the earth at any future time...
...Perhaps our territory will need to be "invaded...
...Any one or all of these could be eradicated were appropriate measures enforced with equal vigor and efficiency...
...In our northern territory flies represent a disease source, comparable to a great extent with the mosquitoes in the warm zone...
...Wiping yellow fever out of the United States and Cuba was a simple but gigantic task...
...People of the south had so long been dying of yellow fever that it had become a habit...
...Tampico is also a nursery for the plague...
...The disease had been constantly present in Cuba for two hundred years when we took charge...
...One in four was car-' tain to die of it By fighting mosquitoos and screcning against them yellow fever was eliminated...
...Our habits arc difficult to uproot...
...Health Ey H. E. DEAR HOLT, M. D. Director, Health Instruction Bureau, University of Wisconsin Eitetsion Division MEXICAN MENACE VERA CRUZ, now prominent in the news dispatches, has been a historical hot bed of yellow fever...
...At the end of fifteen months but sixty survived...
...It required overcoming amongst other factors a prejosico against window screens which prevailed throughout the south...
...From last available reports of the United States Public Health Service there were from February first to the twenty-fourth twenty-two cases and sixteen deaths in Tampico, and there was an epidemic at Vera Cruz...
...In 1509 Spanish colonists attempted to settle there...
...Two yellow fever experts have been ordered to Vera Cruz to act .with officers of the army and navy...
...We of the north have tuberculosis, scarlet fever, typhoid, whooping cough, measles, etc...
...Undoubtedly, one of the results of the American occupancy of Mexico will be the widening of territory which is free from the smouldering menace of yellow fever...
...Every foreign visitor knew that he would contract it...
...Six, hundred promptly died of the fever...
...Yellow fever was wiped out of Cuba and the southern part of the United States as a result of the Spanish-American war...
...More than that, the greatest difficulty was encountered in overcoming the indifference of the public...
Vol. 6 • May 1914 • No. 21
