Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . erlybaseless assertion, but one which is readily met bythe truth that the bite of a single infected mosquitohas more than once cost a life worth many thousandtimes five dollars. To fix precisely the cost ofbringing the Zone to its present, state of healthful-ness is impossible, because the activities of thesanitary department comprehended many functionsin addition to the actual work of sanitation. figures that the average expenses of sanita-tion during the whole construction period wereabout $365,000 a year and he points out that forthe
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . erlybaseless assertion, but one which is readily met bythe truth that the bite of a single infected mosquitohas more than once cost a life worth many thousandtimes five dollars. To fix precisely the cost ofbringing the Zone to its present, state of healthful-ness is impossible, because the activities of thesanitary department comprehended many functionsin addition to the actual work of sanitation. figures that the average expenses of sanita-tion during the whole construction period wereabout $365,000 a year and he points out that forthe same period Chicago spent $600,000 withoutany quarantine or mosquito work. The total ex-penditures for sanitation when the Canal is finishedwill have amounted to less than one per cent ofthe cost of that great public work and without thissanitation the Canal could never have been simple statement of fact seems sufficiently tocover the contribution of Col. Gorgas to the work, andto measure the credit he deserves for its THE LEPER SETTLEMENT ON PAN.\MA BAY CHAPTER XV THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA HE Republic of Panama hasan area of from 30,000 to 35,-000 square miles, roughly ap-proximating that of the state ofIndiana. No complete survey ofthe country has ever been madeand there is pending now a boun-dary dispute with Costa Rica inwhich the United States is arbi-trator. The only other boundary,not formed by the sea, is that atand Colombia join. But Colom-is no boundary at all, but thatPanama is one of her provinces in a state ofrebellion. So the real size and bounds of theRepublic must be set down as somewhatindeterminate. The circumstances under which Panamabecame an independent nation have been set
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