Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-19
TAFT TALKSON CANAL

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victim of yellow fever was taken from
house to fumigate that house and the
two houses next, because the habit of the
mosquito indicated that IL did not depart
far from the place of its birth. 1t seems
that the mosquito that acquires and com
male and this only during her period of
CESSATION. She dies at the end OF ninety
days, and it is not known that the de-
These limitations are what prevent the
spread Of the disease.
When Judge Magoon arrived upon the
isthmus he found DR.. Gorgas battling man
ruby against the yellow fever, but the
eases seemed to be increasing. Judge
cation which had been confined to two or
three houses might well be extended IA,
az the houses in Panama. and at consider
amount OF material, every house in Pan
anna was fumigated once every two weeks
10 secure Increased vigilance and popular
assistance he employed all the, respectable
Panamanisn physicians of Panama as in
spectors OF the districts of that city at
a annuaI s az OF $500 year. He also
any case of yellow fever not reported Nv
methods of this kind the native apathy.
sanitation In Spanish countries, was neu-
tralized.
suROcatinE the Insects.
Ine plan of fumigation is as follows:
strips of paper are placed across the win
ooWs, which ordinarily have no glass or
the FUMES OF the sulphur or pyrethrurn
every nook and granny of the house is
N VS. These gases are fatal or paralyz-
ing 10 the mosquito. After SUFFICIENT time
mas passed the house is opened and theh q
corps of health employees are set TO UoHa
eeleanlng the house and sweeping out the
oead mosquitoes, which are found in great
numbers upon the floors The mosnliitoes
are burned to avoid further mischief. BY
G Inese methods, for which DIR. Gorgas and
Goyernor Magoon are both to be credited
with great praise yellow fever has been
reduced to point where during the last
month only three cases were reported, not
one OF these among canal employees and
an originating many miles from the canal
line. The efforts to subdue the fever In
stead stead OF being relaxed are being continued.
Square miles of woven wire netting with
lhterstices so small as TO prevent the en-
trance OF mosquitoes are spread about the
plazzas OF the house of every American
or foreigner who comes to live under the
auspices of the canal commission in the
isthmus. The windows inside are also
s screened and then mosquito bars on the
whenever a case of yellow fever Is dis
covered, the patient is at once either re-
moved to the hospital and put under a
main at home, the woven wire screen is
put over him and an orderly placed In
cnarge-O or him at his own residence. In
this way he Is prevented from furnishing
supply of the poison to the healthy mos
Quitoes who, In turn, by singing would
bring II back to man. In. other words, the
plan is TO KIN all the MOSQUITOES, well or
i'll, keep them as much as possible from
singing man, and isolate every man with
from mosquitoes OF course there are in
this district especially IN the old town of
Panama and at some villages along the
canal old houses which must be busned
completely to the ground because of the
infection which IL Is impossible TO destroy
in them. The old buildings in Panama are
quito.
Accommodation for Employees.
The canal commission has its Offices in
one of these great stucco structures, with
thick walls, bad ventilation, and damp
fumigated and cleaned in every way, but
once In while new case OF fever in one
OF the American employees is to be charged
the general ofiices are soon TO be moved
10 new buildings at Culebra and EmperRdor
on the line q the canal Little by. little.
and facing encouragement after discOur-
cement the 1900 employees OF the sanitary
department are winning in this night
cess OF The canal work depends. As MT.
isthmus with him this month 81 take on
department has done In this canal zone. .
In the month of August, out OF force
% lSoQo men, the Percentage OF illness was
cases OF yellow fever were sixty-one and
nineteen deaths. in July these were thirty
six cases and thirteen deaths, In September
there were nine cases. and in October but
three. The percentage OF deaths among all
Is about IS and among Americans about %.
The work OF furnishing water, Of in
stalling sewers and OF building houses is
not now in the sanitation department but
Is under the engineering and construction
department, but as soon as the work Is
completed IL viii be turned over to the
sanitation department for maintenance.
Good food Is now furnished by q commits
sary az reasonable rates. The carrying OF
refrigerator cars from Colon across the
lsthmus has Just been begun. There Is an
Ice plant at Ia BOca, another one at Colon,
ana others along the way are to be con-
sIucted, 50 that ice-that most healthful
form OF liquid in the tropiGs--will be at
hand for an.
A hotel has been erected az CoroEaI
where the American employees Of tbs com,