. Rural sanitation in the tropics : being notes and observations in the Malay Archipelago, Panama and other lands. same. During my stay of nearly three weeks, Isaw one mosquito in my room, and five outside. Oneevening after rain I sat outside in the garden, butno mosquito attacked me during the five minutes Iwas there. I certainly was not bitten by a mosquitowhen in Panama, except when in the bush beyondthe sanitary areas. I was told the tile drains were not running verysatisfactorily at Culebra, for the same reasons as inGatun, and that some were being replaced by thechicken wire drains, and
. Rural sanitation in the tropics : being notes and observations in the Malay Archipelago, Panama and other lands. same. During my stay of nearly three weeks, Isaw one mosquito in my room, and five outside. Oneevening after rain I sat outside in the garden, butno mosquito attacked me during the five minutes Iwas there. I certainly was not bitten by a mosquitowhen in Panama, except when in the bush beyondthe sanitary areas. I was told the tile drains were not running verysatisfactorily at Culebra, for the same reasons as inGatun, and that some were being replaced by thechicken wire drains, and others were being relaid. Pedro Mi^-uel.—Pedro Miguel lies at the southend of the Cut, and on the opposite bank fromCulebra. I visited it on the 26th May, and was metby Mr Mitchell, the sanitary inspector. Crossingthe locks we reached a lake, formed by the partialblockage of the Rio Grande. On the sides of thelake are four large oil-tanks belonging to the SanitaryDepartment. From these the oil-boat is suppliedwhich sprays the grassy edges of the lake. Thetanks are connected with the trans-isthmian oil main. PEDRO MIGUEL 159 by a pipe ; and they deliver oil into the boat also bya pipe seen in the photo, thus diminishing- the handling:of oil. The lake is half a mile from the houses, yet itis considered necessary to oil it. Returning to thelocks, Mr Mitchell told me fifteen men were employedfor two days in oilingf them, and that water suitablefor Stegomyia was constantly being- found. Everypiece of machinery and every portion of the construc-tion had to be scrutinised; the most unexpectedplaces often contained water, as an example of whichI might mention the tops of the tall concrete pillarson which the iron lamp standards were to be Commission quarters are on the slope of thehill, and command a fine view. The land below willultimately be covered by the Miraflores Lake, sopermanent drainage has been carried down only tothe 55-foot contour-level, the future lake-l
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