Show SANITATION OF CANAL ZONE Necessity of Work as Part of the Task We Have Undertaken But what about the two great Isthmian Isth-mian diseases malaria and yellow fever Practically every other disease can ho obliterated by tho supply of puro water mad tho simple obedience I to hygienic rules but these arc of a different nature and demand more radical attacks says Dr Albert R Hall In Reader Magazine They aro both parasitic In nature both before they Invade man must pass through nn Intermediate host and that host Is the mosquito stcgomyia for yellow fever and anopheles for malaria Ono should no longer l doubt the essentially important role of tho mosquito Today To-day all scientists agree that to exterminate exter-minate the mosquito Is to destroy these diseases that no other means excepting this Insect has been demonstrated demon-strated as a carrier of either Cling to old beliefs as we may we can render tho country free from epidemics only by killing tho host And It can be dono bore In Panama It has been dono In Ismalla on tho Suez canal It has been donoto bo sure In more favorable circumstances and a smaller urenIn Havana We must do It It will be an eternal disgrace to our government gov-ernment If wo shirk our responsibility for It Is as much a part of our canal project as Is digging tho ditch Wo aro not a commercial concern cutting a highway between two oceans merely for profit If we are bettor lot out the task by contract at once But wo aro a nation tho people of that nation pay tho taxes that supply tho money for canal construction and wo should demand that this sanitary scheme ho an Integral part But It means work To take a strip of land ten miles wide and fifty long and to free It from mosquitoes means brains as well as kerosene and money to back tho brains It means destruction of nasty houses In Panama and Colon and the filling In of slimy pools which today render futile so much of tho effort of disinfection It means action as wo acted in Cuba as Mexico acted at Ma zatlan as Japan nets today There must bo no shortsighted policy or broken promises about It Tho em ployes must be projected at any cost |