Panama and the canal . Copyright by Underwood ib Street in Colon Betoee Paving. 146 HOSPITALS At Colon and at Panama City the French Canal Com-pany had built expensive hospitals. Both were large andfinely situated, especially the one at Ancon, the suburb of. Bolivar Street, Colon—After Americans had Cleaned and Paved It. the City of Panama. Colonel Gorgas enlarged and im-proved these hospitals and put them in charge of a corps ofexpert doctors and trained nurses. We can see for our-selves that they are as well equipped to care for the sickas are any in our own country. Smaller h
Panama and the canal . Copyright by Underwood ib Street in Colon Betoee Paving. 146 HOSPITALS At Colon and at Panama City the French Canal Com-pany had built expensive hospitals. Both were large andfinely situated, especially the one at Ancon, the suburb of. Bolivar Street, Colon—After Americans had Cleaned and Paved It. the City of Panama. Colonel Gorgas enlarged and im-proved these hospitals and put them in charge of a corps ofexpert doctors and trained nurses. We can see for our-selves that they are as well equipped to care for the sickas are any in our own country. Smaller hospitals and campsfor the sick were built also at convenient points along thecanal line. Another thing that had to be done at the very outset was A THOROUGH SCRUBBING 147 to clear awav the filth in the cities and towns,—the untouchedaccumulation of years. In the early reports of ColonelGorgas we can read of tens of thousands of loads of rubbishand filth carted away eacii month. But to give to the cities of Colon and Panama a thoroughscrubbing and afterwards to keep them clean, recpired thatthe streets be paved, that there be good sewage systems
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