YELLOW FEVER IN MEXICO 113

index with the onset of the rain is due not to the formation of
additional breeding -places, but to the fact that the eggs which
during the dry season were deposited in the containers just above
the water - line are washed down into the tank by the
rain . If
active work is carried on at this time throughout the area , there
should not be any actual increase in the number of mosquitoes or
in the number of breeding - places . It should also be noted that in
the rainy season the containers will be invaded by the Culex
mosquito in greater numbers than in the dry season . This is
natural, as the numerous pools formed by the rains liberate
thousands of Culices . White and Hanson found in one com
all

munity in Peru that the mosquitoes the fresh water con

in
tainers were Culex Their work had eliminated the Aedes
.

by
its

calopus and place had been taken the Culex

,

.
METHODS OF CAMPAIGNING AGAINST YELLOW FEVER

general campaign yellow fever control begun

of

Before

in
is
a

-
an

be

any locality epidemiological survey should

of
made the
,

infected and the infectible areas for without such studies the field
,
all

director for practical purposes working the dark similar

in

A
is

survey should operations may

be

as
of

made before the close

it
,
an

happen that city thought

to

have been endemic center was

a

its

reality only pseudo endemic and was receiving

in

infection
-
an

adjoining area which may not have been included

in

from
,

the campaign
.

Control methods have undergone radical change since the

a
At

days that time the campaign

of

the first efforts Cuba

in

measures included fumigation isolation yellow fever patients

of
,

,
-
by

all

general mosquitoes screening and oiling

of

and reduction
fresh water receptacles use that both human and insect
in

is
;

,
-

prophylaxis was practised For many years this program

in all ,
.

meet special local conditions was followed

in
to

modified
,

control campaigns Within the past few years however

,
,
.

accordance with Carter's recommendation fumigation and the

,
by

patients have been superseded strictly anti larval

of

isolation
-

measures
.