Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1913-09-12


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campaign is the careful screening Of
buildings occupied by human beings.
Ordinary mosquito netting would not
do and only "copper" wire will stand
the climate there Consequently a
fine meshed copper screening is used
If any Anophelines escape the larva-
eide and succeed in gaining entrance
to a habitation, the mosquito-killers
are summoned and seldom fail to get
them. Nine days must elapse after
mosquito has bitten a malarious per-
son before it becomes infectious and
this gives the mosquito brigade plenty
of time to- kill the insects while they
are asleep on the walls The isola-
ton of infected persons in the hes
pitfalls helps a lot, for of course the
mosquito cannot carry malaria until
it has bitten a malarious person.
Rats, that carry the bubonic plague.
and flies, that transmit various other
diseases. have received adequate at
tention from the sanitary depart
ment, ands dumb brutes are not neg
Iected. AS an instance of the latter
fact, every horse and mule in the
zone must DE placed at night in one
7 Of a seriesto of corrals established by
the department and there it IS fed
and cared Apr the owner paying .
( reasonable fixed charge for the serv-
! ice. These ahimals if left out. often
are attacked by a disease that is in
I fectious and may be transmitted to
human beings{ Besides that. the ma
4 tive cannot be, persuaded to keep his
stable in sanitary condition.
Many other sanitary regulations
are imposed on the people of the
isthmgs. All garbage must be de-
posted in receptacles to be collected
by the Departments wagons and
! burned in its crematories. Chickens
may not be kept within a certain dis
lance of any dwelling. Rain water
| may not be gathered and kept in
open receptacles. That last, rule is
not easy to enforce, for the Panaman-
/ ian prefers rain water for drinking
purposes. But all these are for the
! general good. and the United States
has the treaty right to attend to the
sanitation of Panama and Colon as
well as Of the zone
In addition to the two great hos
pitfalls at Ancon and Colon, the depart
ment of sanitation maintains a dis
pensary with physician and nurse at
every town along the route of the
canal and at Porto Bello. where the
commission has q big stone quarry.
The larger hospital. on Ancon hill,
close to Panama, in the spring Of the
year had about 900 patients. It's
wards and the residences of the
physicians and nurses are scattered
picturesquely though rather incon-
veniently on the east. and north
slopes Of the beautiful hill, and the
grounds are filed with magnificent
trees and lovely towering vines and
bushes. A little further around the
hill is the hospital for the insane,
and it, too, is well filed. for the ia
maican and Barbadian negroes go
ray at the slightest provocaticn.
In Colon. stretching along the sea
shore in ths only pretty part Of that
fat city, is the other hospital. smaller
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