Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Panama Canal and Commerce
This fact was demonstrated by the medical Of ficers of the United States army in connection with the sanitary work done in Cuba following the spanish-american War. The work done at Ha vana from 1898 to 1901 by Doctors Reed, Sagaer, Carroll, and Agramonte in demonstrating that the stegomyia was the transmitter of yellow fever, and by Colonel Gorgas who applied the theory to the sanitation of Havana, made it possible for the United States to convert the Canal Zone from a section where yellow fever had long been endemic and violent malarial fevers had been prevalent, into one of the most healthful regions of the world.
Fortunately for the United States and espe cially for the army of laborers and their families who have lived in the Canal Zone since 1904, the sanitary work at the Isthmus was placed in charge Of Colonel Gorgas, the man who, by driving yellow fever out Of Havana, had Shown his ability to cope with difficult problems of practical sanitation. How Colonel Gorgas, who is now Major General, and Surgeon General of the United States army, did his work at Havana and at Panama has been delightfully told by himself in his book on Sani tation in Panama.
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