Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . -arms mightbe made up of a garbage can ram-pant and a gigantic mosquito mor-dant—for verily by the collectionand careful covering of filth andthe slaughter of the pestilential mos-quito all the work done on the Zonehas been made possible. As for themotto how would this do—A cleancountry and a salubrious strait? It is the universal opinion of thosefamiliar with the Canal work that ifwe had approached the task with thelack of sanitary knowledge fromwhich the French suffered we shouldhave failed as they did. No evilknown to man inspires such dread as
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . -arms mightbe made up of a garbage can ram-pant and a gigantic mosquito mor-dant—for verily by the collectionand careful covering of filth andthe slaughter of the pestilential mos-quito all the work done on the Zonehas been made possible. As for themotto how would this do—A cleancountry and a salubrious strait? It is the universal opinion of thosefamiliar with the Canal work that ifwe had approached the task with thelack of sanitary knowledge fromwhich the French suffered we shouldhave failed as they did. No evilknown to man inspires such dread asyellow fever. Leprosy, in the indi-vidual, does indeed, although well-informed people know that it is notreadily communicated and never be-comes epidemic. Cholera did strikethe heart of man with cold dread, butmore than one generation has passedsince cholera was an evil to be reck-oned with in civilized fever is now to be classedwith it as an epidemic disease, thespread of which can be absolutelyand unerringly Pholo by Undencood & Underwood COL. W. C. GORGAS The man who changed the Isthmus from a pest-hole to a spot as fit for human habitation as any place on the globe 253 254 PANAMA AND THE CANAL
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