Show I ION YELLOW FEVER ON THE ISTHMUS Five Cases of the Scourge Reported I at Colon i SITUATION IS ALARMING ARRIVAL OF MINISTER BARRETT IN NEW YORK NeW Near York May anI and preservation of belh health is the o one great gret I problem which confronts the American i authorities in the Panama canal none 1 according to a statement given out by John Barret Barrett the American to Panama who ho arrive arrived here toy today on the steamer Advance from Coln He conser considers as alarming the report of five cases of yellow fever feer at Co Colon Existing conditions on the isthmus present man many s si said Mr Barret Barrett The uThe sanitation problem Is new and present presents many difficulties The climate is against us and is ever pros ent ent Under the efficient cre care of oC Dr Georgas the eminent yellow fever ex as aspert pr pert everything possible is bing being done to offset the increase of mortality An alarming condition if is the report of five cases of yellow fever in Colon I It is alarming because up to the time these were r reported n no yellow fever Jd had ap appeared and it wa was that the situation was as in hand Considering the enormous number of canal employee on the isthmus a very ery smal small percentage of ines illness previs prevails but you know how thes these things are I If 01 one half were wen sick with malaria nothing would b be thought of i it but a ease case or two of yellow fever appears and aU all the want to quit and get ayay away I bleve believe these sanitary and helth health will i be met successfully but they far over overshadow overshadow shadow al all others I 1 am Joing going to Boota Bogota and hop hope to accomplish something to establish most Ot cordial relations between Colombia and our country Panama If Is nw now rip ripe for fora a ful full reestablishment of cordial rela relations lons with Colombia and al feeling of enmity caused hy by the revolution has bas disappeared M My personal relations have been most cordial at Panama and there Is no truth In the the report of fric fricton friction ton tion On my departure I received a cordial leter letter from the foreign min minIster mm Ister At Bogota I hold pleasant rela dent denti wih with General Reye the Jef pre 1 i Herman Dietrich Unie United States co coo mit general at Guayaqui Guayaquil an and about I twenty th the Advance cana canal also arrived on |