Sanitation in Panama by William Crawford Gorgas

Author:William Crawford Gorgas
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Appleton

Finally, in June, 1905, the Governor and Chief Engineer, members of the Executive Committee of the Commission, united in a recommendation to the Secretary of War that the Chief Sanitary Officer and Dr. Carter and those who believed with them in the mosquito theory, should be relieved, and men with more practical views be appointed in their stead. They stated that the sanitary authorities had visionary ideas with regard to the cause of yellow fever, and no practical methods even for carrying these ideas into execution.

Fortunately for the cause of sanitation, the then President of the United States had been in office when the work at Havana had been done by us. He told the Commission that the mosquito theory had been established beyond peradventure; that its application had been entirely successful at Havana, where yellow fever had been more firmly established and established for a longer time than at Panama. He declined to sanction the change recommended, and directed that every possible support and assistance be extended to the sanitary officials. It was really fortunate for the sanitary work that matters were brought to a head in this way.

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