. Rural sanitation in the tropics : being notes and observations in the Malay Archipelago, Panama and other lands. of wooden spars if it wasto stand. At Colon I noted damage to the door ofone store and one dwelling-house. I was told thatthe negro and Spanish employees often damage itin the most malicious way; but if so, it is promptlyrepaired. I wish to state very emphatically, and asthe result of careful examination of houses during mystay on the zone, that the screening is maintained ingood order, and in my opinion no one should haveany difticulty in repeating what has been done inPanama wit
. Rural sanitation in the tropics : being notes and observations in the Malay Archipelago, Panama and other lands. of wooden spars if it wasto stand. At Colon I noted damage to the door ofone store and one dwelling-house. I was told thatthe negro and Spanish employees often damage itin the most malicious way; but if so, it is promptlyrepaired. I wish to state very emphatically, and asthe result of careful examination of houses during mystay on the zone, that the screening is maintained ingood order, and in my opinion no one should haveany difticulty in repeating what has been done inPanama with any class of labour, if he takes aninterest in it. It is, however, of the greatest import-ance to get a material which, being free from iron,will not rust. It is sometimes stated, as another objection toscreened houses and hospitals, that they are mosquito-traps : that mosquitoes get in and cannot get outagain. It is certainly true that some mosquitoes findtheir way into screened houses ; but the number thatdoes is very small indeed compared with those thatfind their way into unscreened buildings. The fact.
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