Show MA Q zo 11 4 ARD 41 ancon C Z aletho world gives to col W V 0 gorgas chief sanitary om and his assistants full credit tor for the wonderful work they have accoe in making the panama canal zone healthful and keeping it so all tho the world that knows gives equal f r greater credit to those american italian and english doctors doctora and soldiers who sacrificed their health and in some cases their lives to prove that yellow fellow fever ferer and malaria the two ter rora of tropic america arn ara transmitted by tho the bite of mosquitoes it la Is not my intention to tell ever again the tha latter story the devotion of those brave brava men actually made ade poa pbs the building of the panama canal for their work has been taken full advant aps of by colonel por gas gaa and iila his forces and the zone cone la Is now one of the most healthful places ta in the world before the coming of the americana tho isthmus was waa a veritable pest peat hole the french canal banal builders bull dors and theft workmen and the laborers on the panama railway died like illes flies usually of malaria or yellow lever ever today a fatal case of malaria Is a rarity the tha more malignant form being almost uit unknown known and not a single case of yellow fever has originated in the tone one tn in several years tho the myla mosquito the yellow fever ever bearer has baa not been exceed angly hard to exterminate because it breeds and liven only near human habitations when tho the americans americana had substituted a regular water system and underground sewers tor for the rain water barrels and the open ditches lit in colon panama and the other towns and had fumigated all the dwellings myla was practically extinct thal job of fum fumigate igat fl 1 I e 4 4 UA 1 r M A 11 ancon hill ing by the way raised a great row among tho the ignorant inhabitants of panama they could not understand why they should be all moved out into the street ond their houses filled with evil smelling fumes and they were inclined to offer forcible resistance si al until the zone tone police took tho the matter in hand much more difficult has been the task of eradicating malaria tor for tho the mosquito makes a voe specialty dalty or of carrying this disease Is widespread and of several varieties tt la Is the female only that bites and she needs blood preferably red blood tor for tho the development of her eggs the eggs are arc deposited in a slow moving or stationary water wate r and hatch out into little larvae or wrig celers at least once in two minutes tho the larva must como come to the surface 0 0 breathe breatha and that Is where the santary department ga it usually As one ona wanders about the zono zone lio be leea bees at the headwaters of ever eve ey jr stream ditch or other water course it frequent intervals along its banks ind at the odge edge ol of every pool a big tin can or a reg keg I 1 prom rom this receptacle there to Is a constant drip drip drip of larvicide larva clde cide a mack black oily looking compound of crude carbolic acid caus caustic ac soda and bepin this spreads out over tho the water an Iri Irl dearent dement rim and when little Anchel lne larva cornea comes up for air lr ho be meets a swift twitt death to replenish these cans of larra clila a small army of camf 1 cans Is kept traveling about the zons and others go around with tanks tanka of the tha compound strapped on their backs spraying every pool they come to another measure of extermination has BBS been the draining and filling in ot of swampy ground and the straightening ning ind clearing of water courses so BO that their flow will be too swift for mad ime mar the work woric or drain hag and filling has been extensive bind and icar acar the pacific end of f tho the canal his has faulted eaul ted tn in chaj of largo large facts of 0 land bandur fur building altea the tha third art rt of t tho the antl anti t campaign is the careful screening ot of buildings occupied by human beings ordinary mosquito netting would not do and only copper wire will stand the tha climate there consequently it a fine meshed copper screening is in used it if any escape the larval larva clde cide and succeed in gaining entrance to a habitation the mosquito killers i ur aro a summoned and seldom rail fall to got get them nine lays days must elaise after a mosquito has bitten a person beloro it becomes infectious and this gives the mosquito brigade plenty of time to kilt kill the insects while they are asleep on the walls the isolation of infected persons persona la in tho the hospitals helps a lot for or ot of course coarse the mosquito cannot carry malaria until it has bitten a nial arlous person rats hats that carry the tha bubonic plague and flies that transmit various other diseases have received adequate at from the tha sanitary department and dumb brutes are not neglected As an instance of the latter tact every horse and mule tri to tho the zone must be placed at night in ono one of a series of 0 corrals established by the department and there it is fed and cared for the owner paying a reasonable fixed charge for the service these animals it if left out often are attacked by a disease that Is infectious and may be transmitted to human beings besides that tho the no na tive cannot be ba persuaded to keep hla his stable in sanitary condition many other sanitary regulations regula tlona are imposed on the people of the tha isthmus all garbage must be deposited in receptacles to be collected by the departments wagons and burned in its crematories crema tories chickens may not be ba kept within a certain distance of any dwelling pain alain water may not be gathered and kept in open receptacles that last rule la Is not easy to enforce tor for the panamanian prefers rain water for drinking purposes dut but all these are for the general good and the united states has the treaty right to attend to tho the r ani agitation tation of panama and colon na as well as of the zone in addition to the two great hospitals at ancon and colon tho the depart ment of sanitation maintains a dispensary with physician and nurse at every town tou along the of tho the canal and fit at porto bello where the tha commission has a big stone quarry tho the larger jarger hospital on ancon hll hill close to panama in the spring 0 of f tb tha year bad about patients its W wards ards and this the residences of the tha physicians and nurses are scattered picturesquely though rather inconveniently on the tha east and north slopes elopes of the beautiful hill and the tha grounds are filled with magnificent and lovely lowering flowering vines and bushes A little further around the tha hill Is the hospital for the insane 0 and jt too is well filled for the jamaican and barbadian go arazy at the slightest provocation in colon stretching along tho seashore in the only pretty part of that flat city is the other hospital smaller but no less efficient and well manned than that at ancon its grounds are swept continually by the refreshing winds from the tha atlantic and many of its wards are built out over the water both hospitals are served by corps corpa of physicians and surgeons mostly rather young but able ambitious and studious one mighty good thing the french company did was to establish a sanitarium on taboga island and the tha americans recognizing its value promptly reopened opened rp it for the tha benefit of white convalescents these may remain on the pretty island aland tor for two weeks paying 3 2 a day for room board and medical attention taboga tabo ga ites iles twelve miles due dua south of panama and Is as attractive a tropical isle iala as aa one will often see its curving white beaches in little bays aro are ideal bathing its lofty hills clad with dense vegetation afford occupation for the climber and the tha small fishing village of taboga la Is ancient and not uninteresting gorgeous birds and flowers and luscious fruits aro are everywhere nothing more perfectly beautiful can be ba imagined than an evening on the grasy grassy slopes of tho the sanitarium grounds gro unda A myriad stars stara glitter overhead the southern cron croaa and swinging awl nging above the Rout southern bern horizon in the forest night birds sing and a variety of treo tree locust eynds forth a clear musical note that can bo be heard beard a mile in the little public square of the village the tha native women and chil childrous droU are laughing and singing as the mon men set forth on all night fishing trips talpa and oft off to the north this side alda of 0 the glow of panama wink the me 3 jigli buoys of tho the canals sea aea channel chan nol it in later dearal years ilga oga does doea not become a favorite vcr fa for i wealthy americans americana I 1 abill abail miss my kotesa |