Panama and the canal . AluuNi Hope Reservoir.— The Water is Abundant, Pure, and Good. come to Panama from other parts of the world, are plague,malaria, and yellow fever. The first is usually brought inby rats with fleas or other parasites in ships from infectedports. The diseased rats on these ships carryit to other rats about the wharves, and thus thegerms are carried into the houses and plaguebreaks out among the people. If plague were to go, the ratsmust go first. All incoming ships are thoroughly inspected Three Deadly Diseases THE RAT BRICxADE 151 and the rats arc killed. Tons of rat pois
Panama and the canal . AluuNi Hope Reservoir.— The Water is Abundant, Pure, and Good. come to Panama from other parts of the world, are plague,malaria, and yellow fever. The first is usually brought inby rats with fleas or other parasites in ships from infectedports. The diseased rats on these ships carryit to other rats about the wharves, and thus thegerms are carried into the houses and plaguebreaks out among the people. If plague were to go, the ratsmust go first. All incoming ships are thoroughly inspected Three Deadly Diseases THE RAT BRICxADE 151 and the rats arc killed. Tons of rat poison were placed eachweek where the animals could easily reach it. A consider-able number of men were ormnized into a Rat only business was to destroy as many as possible. Sothorough has been their work that the rats are practicallyexterminated and the Canal Zone is now free from the dan-ger of plague. The same thorough measures were taken to prevent. Opening of Waterworks Svstlsi, July 4, 1905.—In Front of Cathedral. malaria and yellow fever. Both are diseases common ina tropical climate like Panamas. The danger lies in thefact that mosquitoes that sting patients who are sick with 152 DANGEROUS MOSQUITOES either disease carr}- off the poison to those who are well. From one patient many may thus be made sick. Not all die who have themalaria but fewrecover from thedreaded yellowfever. The mosquito thatcarries the fever iscalled the Stego-myia. Having bit-ten a person whohas the fever, theStegomyia maycarry the poison inits stinger for severalmonths. Anophelesis the name of thevariety that carriesthe malarial it carries itfor only a few days,it can fly faster and farther than the Stegomyia, and often bites by day as well as by night. To conquer malaria and yellow fever the mosquitoes had to be destroyed throughout the Canal Zone and in Colon 0tKKlKtlll^ma^...mm. m^ jl»!!*n^,3| <..^ /^ ? ^^E ^..-^^k ^^mH
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