Panama and the canal . Colonel W. C. Gorgas, Medical Corps, , Chiel Sanitary Ofeicer,Panama Canal Zone. built, and a plentiful supply of good water. These threethings rer[uired many months of labor by several thousandmen. But we can see now that the work has been well 148 ABUNDANT WATER done. Everywhere are well-paved, dry streets and plentyof drains and sewers. Out in the hills behind Colon andPanama City excellent reservoirs were built. If we chose. SiEEET IN Colon—^Before Paving. to do so, we could go to see for ourselves that the wateris abundant, pure, and good. It is piped into the
Panama and the canal . Colonel W. C. Gorgas, Medical Corps, , Chiel Sanitary Ofeicer,Panama Canal Zone. built, and a plentiful supply of good water. These threethings rer[uired many months of labor by several thousandmen. But we can see now that the work has been well 148 ABUNDANT WATER done. Everywhere are well-paved, dry streets and plentyof drains and sewers. Out in the hills behind Colon andPanama City excellent reservoirs were built. If we chose. SiEEET IN Colon—^Before Paving. to do so, we could go to see for ourselves that the wateris abundant, pure, and good. It is piped into the citiesand towns in such large quantities as to give to each inhabi-tant at least fifty gallons each day. Certainly that quantityshould be sufficient to keep one person clean. The result is that Panama City is now the best paved,best sewered, and best watered city in all Central Americaor the northern half of South America. GETTING CLEAN AND KEEPING CLEAN 149 But this work met much opposition among the Panaman-ians. Too many were satisfied with tlie old h e ) A Clean 1 ? i Zone did not want tobe clean. They saw-no reason for dis-turbing their houseseither inside or opposed theuse of clean waterColonel Gorgas,therefore, selected anumber of men,mostly intelligentnatives, and sentthem about daybv dav amono; thepoorer classes toteach the value ofkeeping their houses,their streets, andthemselves clean. Slowly these health inspec
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