Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-06-04

ana the writer would be sorry II in
tending emigrauts believed that In 60
ing TO Panama they were doing so
with no risk whatever. On the other
hand that risk Is by no means so
great as popular fancy has pictured
IT, certainly 1t Is much less now than
ever 1t was before.
We find, then. that there are law
and order In the Zone. and that the
laborers have satisfactory house ac-
commodations, though in one or Two
camps the quality OF the latter might
certainly be improved. We find also
that sanitary regulations are strictly
carried out, that care Is taken to pre-
vent needless suffering, that peace
and good will usually characterize the
relations between men and foremen,
and that the medical service Is SIM
ply beyond praise.
conclude this article with a quota
tion from a recent health report
Colonel Gorgos writes tnat in
June, with about $500 nonimmunes
on the isthmus, we had 62 cases OF
yellow fever. In October, with fuis
900 nonimmunes on the isthmus, we
had three cases of yellow fever; thal
is with a steady increase of popula'
ton liable to have yellow fever, we
have had steadily decreasing nun'-
ber of cases Of yellow fever. With a
nonimmune population three-tenths
greater than in June, we have na4
one-twentieth the number OF cases or
yellow fever we had in June.
"The showing with regard to the
risk rate of employees is very good
Among about $4,000 men we had u
daily average of about 459 in hospital.
| This would give us a constant sick
rate of 81 per thousand. We could
not hope TO show lower rate than
| this If our canal was being dug be
tween Washington and Baltimore.
The French, in October, 1884, with
their 1928 employees. mad l61 deaths
| making Il rate for the year of 100 pei
| thousand We, with a force of aboG'
$4,000, have had 81 deaths. which
would give us for the year deatn
rate of 80 per thousand.
81 have no doubt that when the san
itary Improvements at present going
on, sucn as street paving in Panam
and Colon, waterworks in Panama
Colon and along the line, and corr
Portable screened buildings for thC
employees at all points, shall nave
been completed. the health conditions
will be still further improved, but
am inclined TO think that the sanii9l5
question of Panama has been settled
as we have shown that force Of II
borers as large as we are likely y
have, and as unfavorably situated 81
they ever will be. can work on tnt
isthmus without suffering from yellow
fever. and that the general health O
as If they were digging canal in ,
healthy part of Maryland"
have quoted freely above from I
little pamphlet published. | believe
in jamaica.
But because of this cheerful news
tnat yeilOW ieVer Is idlriy uuuer COZ
troll and the death rate not abnormal
the states need not gain the impre
sion thaS this is picnic down here
There Is a deafness to the atmospher,
here that saps the energy and De
presses soon the average northernei
That II the canal is completed, a
they confidently predict. 1t will be Il
enormous expense of wealth, of healti
and of human lives. This is t.
opinion of those pioneers who ha
weathered through the stress of IT,
preliminary years that nave passe
and who are now planning in earnes
for the years of grinding hard worl
to come. Not all that come, remain
and some few have not even return
aa T. UINYADn