Show ao zo FUL PICKARD 1 M fat 1 iiii aiji ilir ir ir allt ll LT TB yai f X ww w saxa fest saX 1 A caw AA y ancon C Z all tho the world gives to col IV C torgny chief sanitary oan car and his assistants full credit for tho the wonderful work they have accod plis lied in making tho the panama canal zono zone healthful and kos keeping pIng it so BO all tho the world that knows gives equal r groaner credit to those american ital lan ian and english doctors and soldiers who sacrIfIce ff their health and in doine cases their lives to prove that rellow foyer fairer and malaria tho the two tor ter fora fare of tropic america aro are transmitted by the bito of mosquitoes it Is in not my intention to tell over again tho me latter story tho the devotion of at those brave men actually made pai pos the building of tha panama canal anal for their work has baa been taken full advantage ol 01 by colonel gorgas or ins and lits hla forces und tho the zone la Is now ono of the most healthful places bt the world before the coming or the americans the isthmus was n veritable pest holo hole the french canal builders and thy workmen and the laborers on the panama railway died like ilko flies usually of malaria or yellow fever today a fatal case of 0 malarly is a rarity tho the more malignant forn being almost unknown and not WeIn glo case of yellow fever has haa originated in tho the cono cone in several years the myla mosquito tho the yellow fever bearer has haa not hot been exceedingly hard to exterminate because it broods breeds and lives only near human habitations whon when the americans had substituted a regular water system and underground sewers for the rain water barrels and the open ditches in colon panama and the other towns and had fumigated all the dwellings was practically extinct tha job of iwa 4 1 ia MI k nw 4 IUS K r tk 1 Q S 1 T ancon hill log ing by tho the way raised a great row among tho the ignorant th inhabitants habitants of panama they could not understand why they should be ba all moved out into the street and their houses filled with evil smelling fumes and they we re inclined to offer forcible re el ela tance stance until tho the zone lono police took the matter la in hand much moro more difficult has haa been the task ash of eradicating malaria for the mosquito which makes a specialty of carrying this disease la is widespread and of at several varieties it Is tile the female only that bites and she eho needs blood preferably red blood for the development of her eggs tho the eggs are deposited in a slow blow moving or stationary water and hatch out into little larvae or wrig alers at unco once in two minutes ho he larva must corao come to the surface 0 o c breathe and that to Is where the santary department gota gets it usually As ono wanders about tho the zone tie he lees at the tha headwaters of every stream ditch or other water course it frequent intervals along ua banks and at tho the edge of every pool a big tin can or a keg from this receptacle thoro there Is a constant drip drip drip of larva clde elde a n black oily looking compound of crude car carbolic bolle add acid caustic soda and resin this spreads out over tho water an iridescent dim and when little larva cornea comes up tor for air he meets facts a swift gift death to replenish these cans of larva larvicide cide a small army of jamal cans la Is kept traveling about ab out uie the zone ind others go around with tanks of the compound strapped on their dacks spraying ing jv evo ry pool they come to another measure of extermination has bas been tha draining and filling in of swampy ground and the and clearing of at water courses so eo that their flow will bo be too swift tor for mad mae me Anop heUne tho the borc of draining and filling has been extensive and tear lear the pacific end os of the canal has oce bulted in the reclamation of large larga rocta of land for building sites the third part of th antl campaign la in the he careful screening of buildings occupied by human beings ordinary mosquito netting would not do and only copper wire will stand the climate there consequently a line ine meshed copper la Is used if any escape the larva eldo and succeed in it gaining ent enfranca ranco to a habitation the mosquito killers are summoned and seldom fall t to 0 get them nine days must elapse after a mosquito lins linn bitten a mal arlous person before it becomes infectious and this given tho the mosquito brigade plenty of time to kill hill the insects while they aro are asleep on the walls tho the isolation tion of infected persons in tho the hospitals helps a rot lot for of course tho mosquito cannot carry malaria until it has bitten a mala rions person rats that carry tho the bubonic plague and files that transmit various other diseases have received adequate attention from the sanitary department anil and dumb brutes are not neglected As aa an instance of the latter fact every horse and mule antho zone must be placed at night in one of a series of at corrals established liy by the department and there it is fad and cared for the owner paying a reasonable fixed charge for the service these animals it left lea out often are ara attacked by a disease that is in in and may bo be transmitted to human beings besides that the native cannot he be persuaded to it liepp cop hla his stable in sanitary condition many othor other sanitary regulations aro are imposed on the people peoble of the isthmus all garbage must to be de posited in receptacles to be collected by the departments wagons and burned in its crematories crema tories chickens may not be kept within a certain distance of any dwelling ila haan in water may not be gathered and liepa in open receptacle acee that last rule la Is not easy to enforce for the tan lan prefers rain water tor for drinking pur purposes Doses lint nirl ha apo aio farL for thai hai general good and the tha united states has the treaty right to attend to the tha of 0 panama und and corom ah ab well as of the zone in addition to the aho two gret graat t hospitals at ancon and colon the depart ment of oc sanitation maintains a dispensary with physician and nurse at every town along the route of the canal and at porto bello where tha commission ha has a big stone atone quarry the larger ho hospital ital on ancon hill close to panama la in the spring of the year had about patients its ita wards and the residences of the physicians and nurses are scattered picturesquely though rather inconveniently on the east cast and north slopes of the beautiful hill and the tha grounds arg are filled with magnificent trees and lovely flowering fineg and bushes A little further around the tha hill Is the hov hospital pItal for tho the insane and it too J Is well filled for the jamaican and barbadian negroes go razy crazy at the slightest provocation in colon stretching along tho the sea share in the only pretty part of that sat flat city ld Is the other hospital smaller but no less efficient anil and well manned than that at ancon its grounds are swept continually by the refreshing winds from the atlantic and many ot at its wards are built out over the tha water both hospitals are served by corps of 0 physicians and surgeons burgeons mostly rather young but able ambitious and studious ono 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 it for the benefit ot of white convalescents these may remain on the pretty island for two weeks paying 2 a day for room board and medical attention taboga lies twelve miles duo south of 0 panama and Is as attractive a tropical tale isle as one will often seo sea its curving white beaches In little bays are ideal bathing places its lofty hills clad with dense vegetation ton ati at ford occupation for the climber and the small fishing vill village age of taboga Is ancient and not uninteresting gorgeous birds and flowers and luscious fruits are everywhere nothing more perfectly beautiful can bo be imagined than an evening on the he grassy slopes of the sanitarium grounds A myriad stars glitter overhead taw southern cross and swinging above the southern horizon in the forest night birds sing and a variety of tree locust sends forth a clear musical note that can be heard a mile in the tha little public square of the village the tha native women and children are laughing and singing as the men set forth on all night fishing trips and ot off to the north this side bide ot of the glow of panama narna wink the light buoys of the tha canals son sen channel it if in later years yeara taboga doen dean not be become bome ft a favorite winter resort for wealthy Ameri americana cani I 1 haal musj ray my gneo |