The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-06-13
PRINCIPlESOf SOCIAL ECONOMY
VIII Be Taught at the Panama EXPO.
sitiOn.

VIII Be Taught at the Panama Expo
sition.
The practical application of tn
principles of social economy whicl
have been put to such significant US
age in the building of the Panam,
Canal, will be made special exhibi
of the Panama-Pacific Internationa
exposition which is to be held at Sa1
Francisco in 1915.
/ When the United States undertook
to build the canal 1t was recognized
that the canal zone must be made hab
liable before the real work of con
struction could be begun The first
step was to rid the two termina
cities, Colon and Panama, of the vel.
| low fever which had meant death tt
80 per cent of those attacked by the
| scOurge. The work that has been
done in the canal zone exemplifies the
principles of hygiene, the branch oil
social economy which has now become
such an important part in the curri-
culum of all schools and colleges
| throughout the country. The follow
| Ing figures show very clearly and def
| initely the results of the efforts of the
expert medical staff that worked un-
der the direction of Colonel George
Goethals, chief engineer OF the canal
From July l, 1904, to June l, 1905,
II cases of yellow fever originated on
the Isthmus; June 1905, 81 cases; in
July AZ; in August q; in September
g. in October 8; in November and
In December only /. During 1906
there was only one case OF the fever
on the Isthmus at Colon, and since
that time there has not been a single
case.
The campaign against malaria was
conducted on equally successful lines.
The work resulted in reducing the
number of malaria cases treated in
hospitals from 6.83 per cent Of the
working force in per month in 1906
to 1.53 per cent ow the working force
per month in 1911 and the death from
malaria among employees from 1893 In
1906 to AZ in 1911. The Isthmus now
Is practically free from the disease.
The maintenance of health among the
employees at work on the canal has
been secured through the measures
taken to provide the employees with
comfortable quarters and wholesome
food and recreation.
To carry out the preventive meas
ures against the terrible scourges
which retarded the great work, force
of about 1400 is employed. More than
700 are employed in the two terminal
hospitals at Colon and Ancon, where
10000 were treated and cured during
1911. The total appropriations for the
department of sanitation for the eight
years OF its existence has been $12.-
100000. OF this amount $38O0OO has
been spent on the sanitation OF about
hundred square miles OF territory
with population of 100000; that is to
say, about one cent day per per-
son.
1t Is the application of these prac-
tically recently formulated principles
that has enabled the work to proceed
at such rapid pace and with such re-
markable success.
Consequently, the social economy
department at the Panama-Pacific ex-
position, will be one of the most In
teresting of all, for will 1t not display
to the world, among other things, the
means by which the canal has been
constructed? Without health and
proper social equipment the great
work could never have been complet-
ed. Special efforts are being made by
the exposition authorities to give to
the world the most comprehensive ex-
hibit of matters pertaining to the new
study that has been presented.
AS matter of fact, no exposition
has had such an opportunity for so
comprehensive display as has the
Panama-Pacific International exposi-
ton. of which the object is the cele-
bration of the completion of the canal
"a work which could have been eff
fected only under the conditions
which the department of sanitation
created.
The presentation of exhibits relative
to the study of social economy, will
be made In one of the fourteen main
exhibit palaces now being erected by
the exposition company at Harbor
View where, on the shores OF the bay
OF San Francisco, the worlds fair will
be held in 1915.
The department Of social economy
has been divided into fifteen groups,
including fifty-two classes. One
group is devoted to agencies for the
study, investigation and betterment of
social and economic conditions This
group will deal with public bureaus,
OFFICES, commissions, etc., with full
anu uCldAlCu cAdulploS OIL Jl6 WOrK or
societies, museums, commercial or
ganizations, social reform associa-
lions, churches, educational con-
crosses and literature, surveys and
special community investigations.
/ Other groups will present the re-
suits OF work in economic resources
and organizations, demography, eu-
genics, hygiene, alcohol, drugs and to-
bacco, labor, cooperative institutions, |
banks and provident institutions,
charities and correction, preparation,
enactment and enforcement of legis-
lation, nomination and election sys-
TENS, public utilities and their regu-
latlon, municipal advancement, recea-
ton and town and city planning.
The hygiene group will be given the
greatest amount of space in the ex-
hlbit. 1t will deal with vital statis-
tics; growth and nutrition food; hy-
g1ene of infancy and childhood; COM
diseases; state and NUM-
,ipal hygiene, public health work and
health laboratories, care Of the sick,