Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1913-05-16
SANITARY WORK
IN CANAL ZONE
Or. Roswell Park Finds COndi-
tiOnS Very Satisfactory.
tSTRRUS HEALTHFUL PLACE

No Mosquitoes to Be Seen, and Flies
Are Fcw-Lass Death From Yellow
Fever Was Seven Years Ago, and Ma
lara Has Also Been Stamped Out by
Banishing the Insect Pests.
LET the public not forget the heroes
here at home, the research workers IN
the little laboratories. the men who
built the foundation for the sanitary
work so splendidly put To use by Colo
mel Goethals and his official staff at
Panama is the suggestion offered by
DR. Roswell Park, the physician who
attended President Mckinley in his
last days at Buffalo aud who has just
returned from an unofficial visit to the
canal zone.
DR. Park is Mt present deyoting
large amount of his time to the forth
coming international congress on school
hygiene. which is TO be held at
Buffalo the last week in August and
accordingly on his recent visit to Pan
anna he was specially interested in
what is being done for the benefit of
the school children Or Park found
that the same care which surrounds
and protects the adults in Panama is
given to the children and that school
hygiene Mt the isthmus Is simply a part
of the concern of public welfare, the
kind Of public welfare which will be
brought so prominently 10 the atten-
ton of the world at the forthcoming
congress in Buffalo.
at is almost seven years ago TO the
day." said DR.. Park the other day in
New York, "since the last death in the
canal zone region by yellow fever. In
other words. il has been effectually
stamped out. The two principal dis
eases of that region have been in time
past malaria and yellow fever The
carriers Of both of these are species
of mosquito 1t was Ross, an English
officer, who first discovered the rela-
ton of the mosquito to malaria. and
it was Reid, United States army sur
Ceon, who made out the same relation
ship for yellow fever. the disease
which. in its investigation, he himself
contracted and died, martyr to sci
ence.
A Penny a Day.
"The actual expense Of conducting
the sanitary department of the canal
zone has been nowhere near that
which has been popularity supposed to
exist 1t has been quite generally
stated In the public press that these
expenses have amounted to the sum Of
$20,000,Ooo Actually they have not
exceeded 81 100000, and never in the
worlds history has money been APP
piled to better purposes. Even iii the
expenditure of this sum the cost of the
sanitary department, as Colonel Goe-
that's has imbrcssively stated, is to he
separated from what may be called
the cost of sanitation
Figured infinitely, this cost is prac-
ticaIly l cent a day per man. The
public should realize what this means.
In other words, it costs only l cent a
day for an individual in the isthmus
zone to preserve his health.
Every house in which government
employees are posmitted to live is sur
rounded by wire screen. and each
house is lifted from the ground In
this way insects are absolutely eXcmd-
ed Not a mosquito is to be seen and
scarcely a fly.
Even yet the public has very little
comprehension Of what It has meant
TO bring sanitation to this degree Of
uerfpcti0n i'm This urpyiOl1SIy badly in