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Show - . . . . - --.---- . - -! ii i f--B--ij-i.r injnj-u-xriJVrixrLrijnj-ijTJXnjjTj-1 Panama is Mosquito Proof A! --- ? Canal Zone Is Now Healthier Than , New York City, Declares Health Officer Pierce. Now York. Stating his bollof that the Panama canal would bo completed in 1013, a year and a half ahead ot tho schedule tlmo. Dr. C C. Plerco, a honlth olllcor In the Canal cone, arrived ar-rived horo tho othor day. "The greatest advance during tho six and a half years I've boon thoro," ho said, "was In the oxtormlnntlon of mosqultoos, Wo have tilled Innumerable Innumer-able swumps, drnlnod off standing wntor wn-tor mid even tilled tho guttora from Uouatops. "Panama Is a honlthlor place than Now York city today, bocauso authority author-ity to carry through reforms Is vested lu tho Isthmian Cannl commission nnd must bo obeyed. If you attempted to umko thla city mosqulto-proof and ordered or-dered a New Yorker to tako down his guttora, you would flrst havo to get an order from a court and ho In turn would obtain an Injunction. In the Cannl tone what tho authorities say coos without question." Tho doctors could not undestand why the wound should pain, and made a further examination of tho leg, with tho result of locating tho nail. When tho nail was extracted It was bent nnd In a blackened condition. The physicians who performed tho operation opera-tion say thnt now, ns tho nnll hns boon removed, thero is llttlo possibility possibil-ity of any rurthor trouble trom tho wound. |