Following the Conquerors the Story of the Caribbean Sea With An Introduction
Following the Conquerors the Story of the Caribbean Sea With An Introduction
Carrie Gilbert Ainsworth
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The cities of Colon and of Panama remained under the authority of the Panama Re- public. The United States Government paid Panama $10, 000, 000 and is to pay $250, 000 yearly. Three problems faced the American : first, sani- tation, for while the French had built hospitals for the sick, no effort had been made to prevent sick- ness; second, the Culebra cut through the moun- A SECTION OF THI-: ANCON HOSPITAL, CANAL ZONE. 61 62 FOLLOWING THE CONQUERORS tain range ; third, how to control the Chagr...es River. An Isthmian Canal Commission of seven men was appointed to build the Canal. They took two WATERFRONT MARKET, PANAMA CITY. years to prepare quarters and in the first year, 1904, thirty-five men died of yellow fever. It was found that this disease was carried from one person to another by the bite of a certain mosquito, which had become infected after biting a yellow fever victim ; contact with a yellow fever patient does not carry the infection. The Americans cleaned up the cities in the zone, doing away with all cis- terns and rain barrels and screening all living rooms.
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