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Show YELLOW FEVER 8CARE. Few Cases on Isthmus May Cause Exodus of Canal Builders. Unofficial advices received in Washington Wash-ington from representatives of tho govornment in tho Panama canal zone, dated at tho end of tho first week in January, aro to tho effect that whlla tho current reports of tho provalonca pt yellow fovcr on tho Isthmus aro exaggorated, tho pest docs oxlst thoro and Bomo aprohonslon Is oxprosscd that if It continues to spread thoro will bo a wholosalo oxodus of tho canal builders. Tho casos so far dovolopcd aro said to havo probably boon provontabla had propor precautions boon adopted, jDut tho largo Influx of pcoplo of tho north, unacquainted with tropical ell (malic clangors, and tho best means to avoid thorn, undoubtedly has afforded groat opportunity for tho spread or. yellow fovor. The Amorlcan woman particularly aro Bald to bo careless, nnd thoy don tho lightest whlto muslin mus-lin shirtwaists In tho evening and aro almost surely bitten by tho pols pnous fevor-benrlng mosquito. |