| Show measure necessary to cope with big death roll san francisco july cgeorge J mattock of louisville ky superintendent of a dock at christobal Chrls tobal was among the passengers on the steamship advance which arrived here from panama today mr matlock said things are very bad at the isthmus the diseases prevalent are measles black measles smallpox yellow fever charges fever and malaria and there was one case of bubonic plague the dead train runs from colon to monkey hill a mile and a halt south of colon always once and sometimes as many as fourteen times a day and it sometimes has as many as fourteen coffins abroad in fact there Is so much yellow fever about that they keep ten graves always ready for cases of emergency the working clerical force on the isthmus is about 90 per cent short one district superintendent I 1 know has work for seventeen clerks and has BO tar only five tho government seems lo 10 be delaying paying oft the men forty one of my mates were waiting tor their money in order to catch athla steamer but only six got it in time to sail sirs A A robinson of new york who had been a hospital nurse on the isthmus about a year was very glad to get back again the supply of nurses she said Is beginning to fall oft and by autumn the hospitals at panama will be very shorthanded short handed none of those who are leaving now will return to panama and many others will leave as soon as possible the pay considering the conditions that prevail is not sufficient sickness there Is increasing and conditions generally are becoming worse |
