Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . Gorgasestimates the average death rate at about 240 per1000 annually. The American general death ratebegan with a maximum of per 1000 sinkingto , at or about which point it has remainedfor several years. Among employees alone our. death rate was per 1000. The French with pavementworks andin cisterns an average force of 10,200 men em-ployed, lost in nine years 22,189 with an average force of 33,000lost less than 4000 in about an equalperiod. When Col. Gorgas came to the Isthmus the two towns Panama and Colon were well fitted
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . Gorgasestimates the average death rate at about 240 per1000 annually. The American general death ratebegan with a maximum of per 1000 sinkingto , at or about which point it has remainedfor several years. Among employees alone our. death rate was per 1000. The French with pavementworks andin cisterns an average force of 10,200 men em-ployed, lost in nine years 22,189 with an average force of 33,000lost less than 4000 in about an equalperiod. When Col. Gorgas came to the Isthmus the two towns Panama and Colon were well fitted to be breeding places for pestilence. Neither had sewers nor any drainage system. The streets of Panama were paved after a fashion with cobblestones and lined with gutters through which the liquid refuse of the town trickled slowly or stood still to fester and grow putrescent under the glowing rays of the tropic sun. Colon had no whatsoever. Neither town had water- the people gathered and stored rainwater and pottery jars which afforded fine. THE WAR ON MOSQUITOES. the grass that affords cover
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