Show Go Gorgas gas the Great Sanitarian G GORGAS whose funeral occurred recently recent recent- V ly y in London has bc been n affectionately called II physician to tho the world by reason of the immense benefits his labors lubor Conferred upon mankind It was during the he Spanish American war and the years car immediately following it that Gorgas performed the work that first brought him general attention revealing re re- rc- rc his remarkable talent as an executive sani sani- sani Ho He accompanied the tho army in the Santiago expedition and then was put in charge of or the tho yellow fever wards of the Las Animas hospital in Havana While serving as health officer of the city ho he seized upon the contemporary discovery discover err of tho the mosquito transmission of yellow fever and anel so adapted it to his campaign campaign cam cam- pai as to effectively clean up the Havana capital Thus he became the tho unquestioned choice of the government go in 1905 when it became necessary to make healthful tho the area surrounding what is now the Panama ennui canal For centuries Panama had been one of the worst pest post holes of the thc world The French canal builders build build- ers were twice trice defeated by seemingly ineradicable tropic disease and to General Gorgas was vas given the for removing from the Isthmus the twin scourges of malaria and yellow fever and making possible the engineering achievements of General Goethals What Gorgas had bad done as an army doctor in Havana and as a sanitary engineer in Panama it was his mission to repeat repent in many parts of the world In the tho extermination extermination nation of diseases that had lon long loner baffled scientific treat treat- ment he laid the whole world under a debt to him mat tuat I I was vas beyond possible payment He was on his way to West Africa at the invitation of the British government government govern govern- ment when overcome in London by the illness which proved pro fatal Obituaries of General Gorgas bring out the interesting interesting inter inter- esting fact that Col CoI Theodore Roosevelt said that tho the careful scientific methods so efficiently and tact tactfully ully put into force by the American Americ n expert had made Panama Panama Panama Pan Pan- ama It as as safe as a health resort and the further interesting interesting interesting in in- in- in fact that Gorgas himself afterward d made mado this prediction I dare t to predict that aft after afta a lapse of a n. period let us ns say equal to that which now separates the thc year 1909 from that of the Norman conquest of England 10 localities in the tropics will b be the centers renters of as powerful powerful powerful pow pow- erful and as cultured a white whito civilization as any that exist in the temperate zone By the application of his methods and scientific care and thoroughness General Gorgas has reduced the death rate of tropical l countries or in other words has been heen instrumental in sa saving ring more human lives than any oth other r man in the world He was the recipient of many honors conferred by medical associations museums of public safety and other organizations organisations in I America and England yet when tho grim reaper came caine cameto to him ho bo could not obey the Biblical injunction II Physician heal thyself |