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
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This would give us a hospital populationof 5,000 to look after. It can be readily seenthat the cost of such an undertaking will belarge, and its successful organization will re- 54 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REVIEWS. quire a high degree of executive ability. Wehope to get for this work Medical Director JohnW. Ross, United States Navy. Dr. Ross wasthe head of Las Animas Hospital, the yellow-fever hospital of the sanitary department atHavana, during our military occupation of Cuba.The towns of Panama and Colon will have tohave organized health departments, such as ourcities in the United States have, but the functions of which will have to be a little more extensive than those of similar health departmentsin the United States. The health departmentat Panama will have to inaugurate mosquitobrigades, which will look after the destructionof the mosquitoes, as they relate to yellow feverand malarial fever, to the isolation and care ofinfectious diseases, to street cleaning, to the dis-
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From stereograph, copyright 1904, by Underwood & Underwood, New York. A PIER IN IBB BARBOR OF PANAMA. (Showing the vultures, orj top of shed, which are the scavengers of the Isthmus.) posal of garbage, etc. Our treaty with Panamaprovides that we shall put both a water and asewer system into Panama and Colon. This willbe done at an early date, and when this hasbeen done, of course, the expense and labor tothe sanitary department, both in the towns andalong the route of the canal, will be much re-duced and simplified. One scheme of water-supply that strikes me very favorably, and thatseveral of the engineers on the commission ex-press themselves as favoring, is that of usingthe head waters of the Chagres River. Thescheme of the canal contemplates a large damin this locality, for the purpose of both storingwater and controlling the floods of the ChagresRiver. This dam being much higher than thedivide, pipes could be laid along the railroad toPanama on the one side andColon on the oth

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