It is, in this respect, no longer like
New Orleans."
A striking illustration of the benefi
cial effects of the campaign of educa
tion carried on in this city and state
last summer with a view of demon
strating the means by which yellow
fever infection is transmitted and
the practicability controlling and
extirpating the di se6e, is supplied by
the fact that the announcement of the
appearance of a case of the fever at
Nvew Iberia has caused hardly a ripple
of excitement or uneasiness among
our people, and that there is no talk
of the "slapping on" of indiscriminate
and senseless quarantines either within
the state or across its borders. The
health officers of Texas, Mississippi
and Alabama express full confidence
in the ability and purpose of the Lou
isiana board of health to stamp out
the Iberia infection and prevent its
spread to other localities. Dr. Irfon,
president of the board, is on the
ground, in personal charge of the
work of fumigation and sanitation,
and even the people of New Iberia
have no fears of his failure to prevent
the fever from gaining a foothold in
that community. Many expression of
doubt and dissent with reference to the
diagnosis of the Iberia case are heard.
