Panama and the canal . Street in Colon—Paved and Cleaned. ISO MALARIA, PLAGUE, AND FEVER the negro children enjoying the cool water from thi-ee diseases that are most deadly to those who. 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
Panama and the canal . Street in Colon—Paved and Cleaned. ISO MALARIA, PLAGUE, AND FEVER the negro children enjoying the cool water from thi-ee diseases that are most deadly to those who. 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
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