The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-18
THREE MESSAGES ARE RECEIVED
 FROM TIE PRESIDENT BY CONGRESS-

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 ! find them really bad. In this case, af- | white employees, l found them very bad l indeed. but the buildings were all in- herited from the French Company and were being used temporarily while otn- CT buildings were in the course of con- l structton: and right near the defective water closet new and excellent closet oof constrUction and nearly finished. 4 Nevertheless. this did not excuse the fact that the bad condition had been | allowed to prevail Temporary accom- as Soldiers use when campsa in the ! Held. should have been provided. Or- ders. toe this effect were issued. I ap-
 pend the report of Doctor Gorgas on | the incident. I was struck however 1 by the fact that in this instance. as ill I almost every other where complaint
 .s,dna. was made which proved to have any
 steps had already been taken to reme- dy the evil complained of, and that the
 dHs,Sunis H,esn was mainly due to the extreme
 providing in every place for the con-
 stant increase in the numbers of em- ployes; Generally the provision ls
 that this should always be the SS1sass: case: when 1t is not there ensues a period
 of time during which the conditions
 be provided; but f never never found a case % ! where the remedy was not being pro :.
 aosStais ss tsHiseaiS aaS a rskss SSsSss Ses.m,p
 l l inspected the large. hospitals at Am
 examples of what tropical hospitsis I should be. also inspected the receiv- ing hospital in various settlements. I f went through a number of the wards
 in which the coiored men are treated, men are treated--Amerfcans and span l fards Both white men and black men
 are treated exactly alike. and thelr
 could be obtained in iS our arstAclass hos- hos. | pitfalls at home. All the patients that
 I saw. with one sor two exceptions.
 the esS canal naive works and er raiiwsysy UysS most M | of them being eolored men of the ord
 mary laborer stamp. Not only are the
 apply for care bt so faE whssssr as tey l cable a watch is kept to see that if | they need 1t they are sent to the hos-
 Do rom o sssS esSse soSres so so
 any complaint come to me as to the management of the hospital service,
 Has, SHltheuEha sha,s occasionally very ignoran!
 frightened by the ordinary hospital Health showing Good,
 Just at present the health showing | on the Isthmus is remarkably goody | So much better than In most sections | uf the United States that I do not be-
 lleve that 1t can possibly continue at i quite it's present average. Thus ear ly in the present year a band of sey. | to the Isthmus as lahoyers, and addi- ! ti0ns to their number have been made | from time to tirne;. yet since their. az | spaniards thus brought over to work ! on the canal has died of disease, end
 he of typhoid fever. Two others were
 one by a dynamite explosion. There | has been for the last six months a ! twelt nigh steady decline h the death
 this being largely due to the decrease | in deaths from pneumonia, which has been the most fatal disease on the
 deaths of every kind among the em- | then on the rolfa 5, 800 whites. seven.
 Stss of shs@ st PsnT o deg of o I and as 1t happensd neither man was an American. Of the 5000 white
 AmerieaTns A,n T inseluding sl some i,ieO ts w9s | has occurred In the past three months. \ whereas in an average city in the Uni- | ted States the number of deaths for a | would have been aboutlthirty from dis
 ease. This very remarkabie showing 1 but 1t certainly goes to prove that if | good care Is taken the Isthmus is not particularly unhealthy place. Tn oc-
 sIghtyssix ISt g G died T from disease; as I pneu. se moriia being the most destructive dis ease. and malarial fever coming second.
 supervision over the coiored iaboferE is of course greater than is the case among the whites, and they are also seyes eiS meh accounts se for the fae | that their death rate is so much high- CT then that of the whiteH. inAspite of shs fact sfac ha they hsys sssn used ve S among the coloRed employees 1t will be seen that the death. rate Is not high. BfHufmwttOm of Mosquitoes. Tn Panama and Colon the death rate has also been greatly reduced. this be- ing directly due to the vigorous work of the special brigade of ernEioyes who the. stegoniyIa mosquito is to be found. and destroying its larvae .s,,s and 6TS, breed, --in short in peTforming all kinds of hygienlc labor little over < yea ago all kinds of mosquitoes. including about the Culebra cut. Tn this cut dur ing last October every room of every house was carefully examined. and on. the two fatal species, were found un- falterinG energy in inspection and dis injecting and in the work of draining for the ehage l append Doctor Cor. gas report on the health conditions; also a letter from Surgeon General
 
 General reported to me that the hy- gienic conditions on the Isthmus werc about as good ss. foE instance those
 Corozai, some four miles from La Boca. was formerly one of the most
 unsanitary places on thee Isthmus, probably the most unsanitary. There was marsh with a pond in te mid dle. Doctor GOrgas had both the marsh and pond drained and the brush clear ed of. so that now, when I went over the ground, it appeared like a smooth meadow intersected by drainage ditch es. The breeding places and sheiterinE spots of the dangerous mosquitoes had been completely destroyed. The result ls that CoroSal for the last ak months
 llike La Boca. which formerly also had a very unsanitary recoFdl. shows one of the best sick rates in the Hone, aSitsed nSaxiRE 'fs to thS thS 6ospRs Sas % cOrcsa
 there Is big hotel nlled with em- ployes Of the Isthminn Canal Commis- sion. some of them with their wives tractive spot was stigmatizsd as ''hOg wallow" by one of the least scrupu- lous and most foolish of the profess stonal scandal-mongers who from time to time. have written about the Com
 In Panama and COlon.
 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. difhculti 1 because 1t was necessary to deal with | the already existing population, which l naturally had scant sympathy Wlth revolutionary changes, the value or which they were for a long time not l tion consists largely of eolored labor | CTS who, having come over from the | West Indies to work on the canal, | abandon the work and either take C. | k- l4a tV.