. Illustrated history of the Panama Railroad; together with a traveler's guide and business man's hand-book for the Panama Railroad and its connections with Europe, the United States, the north and south Atlantic and Pacific coasts, China, Australia, and Japan, by sail and steam . $7326632 From 1853 to 1854, 31 miles open, $131,143 1854 to 1855, opening of the entire road, $645,497 1855 to 1858 showed an increase of $416,006 84; andFrom 1858 to 1859, an increase above that of $419,477 93.(For a particular statement of items of expenditure and income, seeAppendix B, page 61, et
. Illustrated history of the Panama Railroad; together with a traveler's guide and business man's hand-book for the Panama Railroad and its connections with Europe, the United States, the north and south Atlantic and Pacific coasts, China, Australia, and Japan, by sail and steam . $7326632 From 1853 to 1854, 31 miles open, $131,143 1854 to 1855, opening of the entire road, $645,497 1855 to 1858 showed an increase of $416,006 84; andFrom 1858 to 1859, an increase above that of $419,477 93.(For a particular statement of items of expenditure and income, seeAppendix B, page 61, et HEALTH OF THE may interest the general reader to know that more than196,000 passengers have been transported over the roadduring the five years ending in December, 1859, and it isnot known that a single case of sickness has occurred dur-ing or in consequence of the transit since the entire open-ing of the road in 1855. The diseases contracted by per-sons in transit previous to that time were of a purely ma- immm*.... PANAMA KAILROAD. 49 larious character, and identical with the intermittent (feverand ague) and bilious fevers of the Western States, alwaysfound resulting from great exposure and fatigue, so oftenunavoidable while the transit was performed upon mulesand in open boats, occupying from two to five days, thetraveler frequently obliged to live upon the vilest food, andsleep upon the wet ground or in the but little less comfort-less huts of the natives; the comfortable railway carriage,and the passage from ocean to ocean reduced to three hours,having fully demonstrated a perfect immunity to the trav-eler from all those varieties of sickness long popularly rec-ognized under the head of Panama Fever. The sanitarycondition not only of Aspinwall, but of the country alongthe entire line of the road, has also been improved by thefilling in and draining of the swamp and low land to sucha degree that the congestive forms of fever among the la-borers and resident
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