SANITATION IN PANAMA

Concreted Ditch. Ancon.

SANITATION
IN PANAMA

BY
WILLIAM CRAWFORD GORGAS
CHIEF SANITARY OFFICER, PANAMA CANAL, SURGEON GENERAL, U. S. A.,
MAJOR GENERAL, U. S. A.

ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK AND LONDON
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1915

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]

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