Arizona republican., 1908-07-15

million square yards of swamps year,
 cut thirty million square yards of
 grass; dig quarter million linear feet
 of ditches, and clean two million feet
 of old ditches. They empty nearly a
 million garbage cans a year, and over three hundred thousand night soil
 cans. They fumigate about eleven
 million cubic feet of space in dwelling | places !n a years time
 | As if this were not enough. they
 gather nearly eleven thousand loads of
 sweepings and twenty five thousand ! loads of garbage in the city of Panama,
 sprinkle nearly three million gallons
 of water on its streets, and distribute
 three and a half million gallons of wa
 ter to the poor of the city. And then
 they have almost as much more to do
 at Cristobol and Colon, on the other
 side of the Isthmus. Besides all this ! they have to inspect 113,000 persons a I year in connection with the quarantine, I Vaccinate some tweny thousand peo- | pie arriving on the Isthmus, and some l fifteen thousand leaving, and issue
 some thirty-four thousand circulars of | instructions with reference to malarfal I fever.
 l With all of this preventive work
 they combine the treatment of the sick
 on the Canal zone. The hospitals 1 have little to do now in comparison with times past, yet the treatment they | gave during last year was equivalent I to treating 43S,000 people for one day,
 at total cost of $735,000.
 | hn i,
 most Of the big outlay for sanitation
 It was this little pest that outgeneral- | ed the French and drove them in l gloriously from the task they had un-
 dertaken. Like the midnight murder
 CT who steals upon his victim, admin isters the fatal blow. and then disap- I pears in the darkness as if the earth Fhad swallowed him up, the mosquito managed to cover his tracks so we'll l that he was never seriously suspect ed of being the criminal responsible | for a million murders until he met his match in the American doctor. This latter gentlemen laid the crime to the
 mosquitos door and proved his case in ] Cuba. When Panama was reached new hearing was granted. Colonel i Gorgas was the prosecuting attorney Early in 1905 the trial began. The mosquito brought about so many cases of yellow fel'er that he was almost able to prove an alibi. He did so in the minds of thousands. In fact he made out such a defense for himself that hundreds tore the screens from their windows, refused to sleep under mosquito bar. and professed entire in difference to the mosquito. It ! even went so far that the canal commis- sion itself was almost ready to line up on the side of the mosquito.
 At this iuncture Governor MagoOn arrived on the scene. He said he was afraid of the mosquito and that if
 Gorgas were given an opportunity to make his work absolutely thorough he would prove his case. And what is
 further, he said he proposed to afford that opportunity. Three months of cXterminating warfare left so few vel low fever mosquitoes on the Isthmus that Colonel GOrgas offered fifty dol lars in gold to any one not connected with the sanitary department who would report a case of yellow fever. Thus was the mosquito sentenced to banishment form the Isthmus. and the sanitation brigade is carrying the sentence into execution. Only a com paratvely few bushwackers remain and