. Canadian journal of public health . ive shrugshis shoulders and says he prefers it tothe danger of pneumonia. Now that thefevers have been conquered in Panamathe resident of that place has a sardoniclaugh on the northerners who have madeno headway against pneumonia at the skilful direction of ColonelGorgas, , sanitary conditions in theCanal Zone and vicinity have been madealmost perfect. The food supply is abun-dant and pure, and the canal builders ofevery class are well housed in buildingsfrom which the few remaining mosqui-toes are carefully excluded. By cuttingthe jungle ba
. Canadian journal of public health . ive shrugshis shoulders and says he prefers it tothe danger of pneumonia. Now that thefevers have been conquered in Panamathe resident of that place has a sardoniclaugh on the northerners who have madeno headway against pneumonia at the skilful direction of ColonelGorgas, , sanitary conditions in theCanal Zone and vicinity have been madealmost perfect. The food supply is abun-dant and pure, and the canal builders ofevery class are well housed in buildingsfrom which the few remaining mosqui-toes are carefully excluded. By cuttingthe jungle back several hundred yardsfrom all buildings and prosecuting a vig-orous campaign with petroleum abouttheir breeding places, the authoritieshave made mosquitoes a kind of curios-ity in the zone. Proof is now conclusivethat the months of 1903 to 1906, whichwere devoted almost exclusively to san-itary endeavor, were not wasted, and thedirt has been made to fly all the fastersince then by reason of the human se-curity this labor The Milk Commission. On the tenth of June, 1908, it was re-solved at a meeting of the executivecouncil of the Canadian Medical Associa-tion at Ottawa that a Commission beappointed whose duty it would be to actwhen possible in conjunction with thevarious health boards of Canada in en-quiring into the condition of milk sup-plies, and in endeavoring to secure suchlegislation as should warrant the Can-adian Medical Association in taking stepsto obtain for Canadians an uncontamln-ated product. The Commission was appointed underthe chairmanship of Dr. Charles J. C. , of Toronto, and has endeavor-ed, so far, to ascertain the extent to whicrilife is menaced by market milk ; consid-ering in this the relation of milk to in-fant mortality, the role played by milkin the spread of communicable disease—particularly tuberculosis—the meaningof certified milk and the effect of pas-teurization on milk and the bacteria inmilk. As stated in the Commissi
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