Panama and the canal . yia maycarry the poison inits stinger for severalmonths. Anophelesis the name of thevariety that carriesthe malarial it carries itfor only a few days,it can fly faster and farther than the Stegomyia, and often bites by day as well as by night. To conquer malaria and yellow fever the mosquitoes had to be destroyed throughout the Canal Zone and in Colon 0tKKlKtlll^ma^...mm. m^ jl»!!*n^,3| ?- ^m •e-X . :.:i. ?Ws I^K-U mtm vM. ^ - >? , t-^SiitSii ???? -V .fff,^ Vg^R*^^ P ^^^f W^^t i > ^ - i r ^^~ Begging for a Bath. MORE BRIGADES 153 and Panama City. T
Panama and the canal . yia maycarry the poison inits stinger for severalmonths. Anophelesis the name of thevariety that carriesthe malarial it carries itfor only a few days,it can fly faster and farther than the Stegomyia, and often bites by day as well as by night. To conquer malaria and yellow fever the mosquitoes had to be destroyed throughout the Canal Zone and in Colon 0tKKlKtlll^ma^...mm. m^ jl»!!*n^,3| ?- ^m •e-X . :.:i. ?Ws I^K-U mtm vM. ^ - >? , t-^SiitSii ???? -V .fff,^ Vg^R*^^ P ^^^f W^^t i > ^ - i r ^^~ Begging for a Bath. MORE BRIGADES 153 and Panama City. This seemed like an impossiljle task,but Colonel Gorgas and his men went bravely at it. AnAnopheles Brigade and a Stcgomyia Brigade wereformed. The people laugh in Panama today and say thatall of Colonel Gorgass men could be seen at times running MosquitoBrigades after onepoor lit-. tle mos-quito. At any rateit was no joke forthe were attackedeverywhere. Kero-sene and mosquitooil were pouredover stagnant pools,rain barrels werescreened, miles ofditches were dug andswamps drained,great areas of junglewere cut down and burned, and all sorts of methods were used to destroy thebreeding places. Then the homes were frequently fumi-gated and most carefully screened, and cases of fever wereseparated from those who were well. Indeed, it would beimpossible to tell here all the various methods that were The Bath. IS4 HEALTH REPORTS taken to free the Zone of these deadly little pests. Andnot only was it necessary to kill those already there, butothers had to be prevented from coming in. Constant watch-fulness by several thousand men was must remember, too, that all this work had to be done at the same timethat thousands of igno-rant laborers were flock-ing to Panama to workon the canal. It wasdifficult to get thesemen to take even thesimplest way
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