Sanitation in Panama

by William Crawford Gorgas

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	Yellow Fever and the Discoveries of Its Transmission	[1]
II.	The Experiments of the Reed Board	[18]
III.	The Discoveries of the Reed Board	[32]
IV.	The Sanitary Board of Havana	[40]
V.	Sanitary Work at Havana	[50]
VI.	The Results Accomplished in Havana	[63]
VII.	Correspondence with Dr. Reed	[77]
VIII.	History of Yellow Fever	[110]
IX.	Geographical Limits of Yellow Fever	[124]
X.	Appointed Chief Sanitary Officer for the Isthmus	[138]
XI.	Preliminary Organization and Work at Panama	[148]
XII.	Yellow-fever Work at the Isthmus	[159]
XIII.	Nombre de Dios	[175]
XIV.	The Work of the Sanitary Inspectors	[182]
XV.	The Work at the Hospitals	[206]
XVI.	Malaria Work and the Hospital System	[219]
XVII.	Medical and Surgical Service of Ancon Hospital	[241]
XVIII.	The Sanitarium at Taboga	[248]
XIX.	The Leper Colony	[256]
XX.	Quarantine System	[260]
XXI.	Measures Against Bubonic Plague	[275]
XXII.	The Work of the Sanitary Department of Panama	[279]
	Index	[293]