Show YELLOW FEVER MENACE Reports of the of five fhe t a Ise of yellow fever teer at Colon serve sene serveto to tn direct attention to the real problem thet confronts the in the of the ean il The The teSt tout ril L rot not the It fout of tg r a waterway ater but the sucte In pre erv ervIn In ing the health of Ute the men employed In hi Int hithe t the work ork The y the tse French omny were en by br a fri frightful Joao of oC lift life much mh of it due to the rex TaY TaYi i or of lever fever at that time but understood Sanitary con ditl ne that tat axe are naturally of he worst I aret the canal nal ot in cain cawing the death of eC of ier Hr L sons gut in the light i t of r recent nt discoveries by American Arka doctors we are not in ini i bIed Iti Iba share the alarm manifested ted 1 Minister John Barrett wor v r tM the ap apI I e or of a few cases s of yellow f fer er cc at Colon It is In probably true that L 1 he existence of the Will di disquiet the laborers em I on the canal but their physical will be better bette I row than It would have been in DeLes ihy Y This Ia In particularly Utie l y true In n reference t I p yellOw fever It long and patient study and mo more t than ban one heroic of ute life f for r t the American Alner an doe I ot to conquer yellow fever feer In Ha hut it was as conquered and the man directed the fIght against t I Ia the IRe man who is now DOW In charge or of the sanitation or If the canal zone Dr Georges s t I the greatest lest yellow fever feer ex cx JI now livIng i ll former fonner t concerning Ou in tM the t fot 0 of yellow fever were upset I hy bY Ute The American d doctors In hi tuba They 1 that tM the disease is not ot uy Ity persons or by means of rood or hut by a mo tM the ft female le of f It a certain species Incidental to the proof several fral doctors and trained gave ave ui MI their lives by permitting the mosquito CIlito to 19 them after visiting at a fever feHr patient But they sol the secret MOret or of the spread of C yel yellow yellow low fever As a result of this lids discovery ue are possible Xo Now of yellow fever patients t pest houses in remote places there 1 io lie exposed to the attacks of the and thi spread the di disease te tet t I he doctors isolate the patient by means f wire screens that keep ott the mos 1 tUMS Prompt reports 0 of cases and front froM mosquito bites noW ow make ke it pos bie Ie to control Ute the fever TIle The health authorities on fl the canal nal zone are aft busily bushy engaged in tile the work or oC improving conditions Filth nf I Course COUt is in a factor in Ute the spread or of ory y fever because it makes the tle teat more liable to infection But pro protection the mosquito is the hier aim To this end efforts are wa way to drain the awal swamps and andt t hue the breeding pI ea while hile arra ts are being made to keep t he men under screens reen a as m much h an 8 poe particularly at nl night ht AU All sleeping places are to be by wire ire net nett netI t I jn ing and the men aTe are being cautioned to keep keel constantly OIl mt the alert to avoid the mosquitoes I Naturally aU all these plans cannot be out i t the he fever may spread to some extent but there Is every reason to believe the American doctors will succeed In limit limiting inS ing It closely and aDd there is good ground round for a belief belie that before Jon long the they will m have it aD absolutely u under r control The They have hae tM the Cuban experience to draw and have the assurance of oC the Ie est cooperation front from all quarters 1 because or of the general recognition of th the gravity of their problem The great tat triumph will 11 be the mastery master or of conditions that in the past 11 have a ve appalled the world |