Identifier: reviewofreviewsw30newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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■i by Underwood & Undern I New York. AN UNFINISHED CUT >\ no: Panama CANAL. SOLVING THE HEALTH PROBLEM AT PANAMA. 53
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A STREET IN THE OLD QUARTER OF THE TOWN OF PANAMA. this way the individual will be brought under ob-servation in the first day of his disease, placedunder the best possible conditions for recovery,and, most important from a sanitary point ofview, put in a screened ward, where mosquitoescannot bite him, become infected themselves,and, by biting other people, spread the diseaseto them. If the poor and ignorant have a horror of thehospitals, they will conceal their yellow-fevercases, and keep them at home, and no system ofinspection or severity in punishment for theseinfractions can enable the sanitary authoritiesto discover all the cases. I speak from ex-perience on this point. In the midst of the se-vere epidemic of yellow fever of 1900, in Havana,we found our scheme of having yellow-fevercases reported to the sanitary authorities failingbecause the people generally believed that theycould not get the caie or treatment at the hos-pitals that they could at home, and they wouldtake the r

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