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Title: Panama and the canal in picture and prose ..
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Abbot, Willis John, 1863-1934. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York (etc.) Pub. in English and Spanish by Syndicate publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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n was snubbingCol. Gorgas because ofhis insatiable demandsfor wire screening. InApril there were sevencases among the em-ployees in the Commis-sions headquarters inPanama. Three died andamong the 300 othermen employed therepanic spread rapidly.Nobody cared about jobsany longer. From allparts of the Zone white-faced men flocked to thesteamship offices to se-cure passage home. Sto-ries about the ravagesof the disease among theFrench became current,and the men at workshuddered as theypassed the little Frenchcemeteries so plentifullyscattered along the Zone.The sanitary forces wheeled out into the open andwent into the fight. Every house in Panama andColon was fumigated, against the bitter protests ofmany of the householders who would rather faceyellow fever then the cleansing process, and who didnot believe much in these scientific ideas of thegringoes anyway. An army of inspectors madehouse to house canvasses of the towns and removed,sometimes by force, all suspected victims to the iso-
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COPiKiCHT, 1913, BV r. E. HKICIII THE WASHING PLACE AT TABOGA Taboga, site of the Commission sanitarium, Ls the most picturesque point readily accessible from Panama City.The laundry place is the gathering point for the women of the village. THE SUCCESSFUL WAR WITH YELLOW FEVER 153 lation hospitals. The mahgnant mosquitoes, cour-iers of the infection, were pursued patiently by regi-ments of men who slew all that were detected anddeluged the breeding places with larvacide. Thewar of science upon sickness soon began to tell.June showed the high-water mark of pestilence withsixty-two cases, and six deaths. From that pointit declined until in December the last case was reaching New York he met the then Secretary ofWar, afterwards President, William Howard Taft,to whom he expressed dissatisfaction with the situ-ation and asked to be relieved at the earliest possiblemoment. Secretary Taft declined to consider hisfurther association with the canal, for a moment, de-manded that his resignatio

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