Show 5 S I wi I GORG GORGAS S pL PLANS NS PEST W WAR R. R Bab From Guayaquil With S hom For Cleaning Port Colonel William O. O Gor Gor- gas gus head of or tire tilt sanItary work in the Panama canal zone presented recommendations rec rec- for the sanitation of t Guayaquil Ecuador 11 for tor mary many years as the tIre pesthole of ot the Pacific to Secretary Knox Colonel Gorgas Gorges It said S S I 1 found conditions at Guayaquil elm aim liar flar t to those which we met at Havana Davana 1 when we wont vent there some years agoto ago ngo to rid It of fever te and Infection There seems to tu be no reason Iason why Guayaquil cannot be made as ItS safe a n harbor from froma a health point of ot view as any other I The people there realize the Importance 1 of cleaning up If they want to enjoy I the benefits to be derived from the commerce of ot the canal The city has a n partial water supply and the thing It needs Is a pipe pipelIne pipeline line giving a fresh pure water supply I found In the hospitals seventy cases of plague and this would disappear 1 with the yellow Fellow fever if better sanitation sanita- sanita tion were secured S Gua Guayaquil added Colonel Gorgas 9 Is ls In a strategic position being the only port In Ecuador to get a large trade from the surrounding upland country which Is thickly populated I 1 and rich in resources that will make I commerce S |