Rocky Ford enterprise., 1906-12-21
Preliminary Work Being Done.

rpUt-. tho one actually chosen. 4. much
superior io both tho Nicaragua anu
bar.rn routes
Preliminary Work Being Done.
The wisdom OF tho canal management
than In III. way In which the founds-
have. yielded to IN. natural i.apatiens.
of IiI.Infoffn-i outsiders AMI begun all
kinds Of eSppfin-nts In work PRIOR To a
thorough sanitation Of the i.shnas. and
II u. q prssIsm rSa sa aa ss,,ins a and h..s.ns @ "a
disas,roas The ysrioa. preliminary.
these = could % no, !. .ak.n " ~ a. no I" allow low
us To begin tho rial work Of eonstruc-
sn psr ,hsn 20 Ins sss ns. Q. .hs e. 'rsSs nsSs
the type ~ the canal decided. and the
only. delay has been the necessary delay
until tho 18th day OF June. tho date
when tho congress. definitely and wisely
settled that We should have an s;-feot
work began in hard earnest and ha.
been continued with Increasing visor
ever slnes: and y will sentinns so to
tracts arc let tho conditions will 10 such
as to Insure a constantly Increasing
amount OF performance.
Successful Sanitation.
Tn. nr,. ,a, S,ss, problem Iss,n, to- 70 be solved;
problem of sanitation. Thl, was from
the outset under the direction OF DR.
member OF the commission. II must be
remembered that his work was not mere
sani,a,S'n as ,, the term Is snde5s,eod n
Pynama and Colon. In addition to the
a III sss ~sas ~s5s tic s.s a.@
service does as regards the nation. that
s vnr.oss ss' sias.s and si,es and R iSaa coi .os
War,nss nans aid & IN New ,So York ,.,,fs whsn h: h:
a byword for deadly .nnhcaithtuincss
Now. after two years Of our occupation
the death rate compare favoraSiy with
reasonably healthy localities In the
Ini,sa sia,s. Espsei1l ,S s%5s r.s @ has - been s
which. have. been found to ,propasaic
settlements. tile little temporary towns
or cities composed OF the white and black
s which s5Sw up here .ns n..S. gs
OF the work dictate. the utmost care is
exercised to keep the conditions healthy.
bitches which in removing the water
have removed the breeding places OF the
cut away for n considerable space around
the hnbitations. thus destroying the
places in which the mosquitoes take shell
ter. These drainage ditches nnd clenrings
are in evidence In every settlement. and.
together with the invarlnble presence OF
OF mosquito doors to the houses. not to
speak OF the careful fumigation that has
gone on In IN all infected M houses; doubtless ss
a single mosquito. and this not OF the
days on the isthmus. Equal care is
taken by the Of 1hs health d tse
houses and proper hyEienic conditions of
every kind. Inspected between 20 and
white employees and those used by the
colored 1aborers. In almost every case
fosnd he ns item P2en BAD n fI. s
case. affecting settlement ena q S.n, mnmar mar
inherited from the French. company and
were being used temporarily while other
i'd tion and MIs risS, n near @ the defective water
closet new and excellent closet with
good sewer pipe In St
less this did not excuse the, fact that the
bad condition had been allowed to pre-
II only such as soldiers use when camped
in the field, should have been provided.
Order, to this M Dr. en the
cident. l was struck, however, by the
fact that in this instance. as In almost
which proved to have any justification
whatever. 1t appeared that steps @ had al, al
ssSSansa sssn Of .asR sna that IL
mainly due to the extreme difilcplty: and
often inpossibilIty. of providing In every
place for the constant increase in the
numbers Of employees Generally ALL the e prot Tot
possible that this should always be the
case; when II is not there ensues
period OF time during which the condt.
tions are unsatisfactory. until remedy
can be provided; but never found a
case where the remedy was not being
provided as speedily as possible.
improvements, In Cities.
The sanitation work in the cities OF
Panama and Colon has been Just as
important as in the zone itself. and in
many respects much more difficult. ,3th be,
the already existing population. which
naturally had scant sympathy vai WIN IN
which they were for a long time not
able to perceive. In Colon the popuIa-
tion consists largely of colored labor
ers who having come over from the
West indies to work on the canal,
aha ndon the work and either take to
the brush or lie idle in Colon itself;
thus peopling Colon with the least de
innOrteu 3,