Show health in panama the transformation of the panama canal zone from the hole ot ol the tropics to a genuine health resort has been one of the tha most moat remarkable achievements of modern times the government in building the great can ann al hag haf broken mana man records but the most remarkable one was in the prevention of disease dise ase when the government goern ment decided to build the canal vise men shook their heads the canal would be a wonderful thing but would it be worth the inevitable sacrifice of thousands of american workmen who roust must succumb to the ravages of th the tropical diseases that infested the canal zone zoned thousands had died there and the natural inference was ehst countless thousands would be added to the death roll probably before the work was well begun began but the dire dira predictions came to naught the government first established in the zone a sanitation bureau and all that medical skill could do da was done to make the zone habitable the bureau exceeded its own expectations swamps were drained sewer systems installed and the zone that only a few years ago was reeking with pestilence became not only habitable but healthy the population on the canal zone at present is 19 during the month of november there were but three deaths one from malaria one from canler camer and the third en an infant this is aquil to an annual death rate of per thousand this record is 13 most remarkable kable when ben most of our advanced cities competing for honors as be alth resorts consider them ther neles elea especially flored if their death rite ante falls below 15 per thousand thou |