PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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C.O. 885
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88
City of Panama.
Ditches cleaned
Anopheles brigade→
Ditches dug
Weeds and grass cut and removed
Cesspools cleaned
Loads of refuse removed from the City
Premises cleaned by contract
Disinfection brigade—
Rooms fumigated and disinfected
Material used-
Crude oil
Kerosene oil
Pools oiled
linear feet 1,647,760
1J
3,800
square feet 1,475,426
Ditches maintained Crab holes worked
293
6,600
1,399
barrels
1,600
gallons
246
Larvaicide
Sanitation of Mount Hope-
Water receptacles treated
...
Mosquito-breeding places found Ditches constructed
Fumigation
Mount Hope Cemetery maintained. Sanitation of Toro Point-
Pools oiled
Water receptacles treated
Ditches constructed
5,945
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Inspection of houses and yards-
Houses and yards inspected
766
Mosquito-breeding places found
Ditches maintained
Vegetation removed
Persons notified to keep premises in good condition
869
Warning notices complied with
642
New buildings-
Letters to Alcade requesting enforcement of sanitary rules
and regulations
407
Plans submitted to Health Officer and approved
408
89
square yards
127,354 188,609
linear feet
228,777
39,200
2,275
lincar fect
cubic feet
4,684 156,400
square yards
35,300 1,690
226
linear feet
3,685
5,900
square yards
1,325
Colon, Cristobal, Mount Hope.
Waters and sewers-
Connections made during the year
Total number of connections made to date
Outstanding permits
Houses in which extensions were made
Houses
597
32
32
Plans approved
82
Permits to repair issued
317
Permits to occupy issued
58
Temporary permits to occupy issued
11
Houses in which defective plumbing fixtures were found and
reported to the Superintendent of Public Works
1,548
Sanitation of Colon-
Loads of yard garbage removed
Average number of cans of garbage removed daily
2,434 3,108
Vegetation removed
acres
660
Streets cleaned
Private properties cleaned
Pools oiled
square yards
Mosquito-breeding places found
Water receptacles treated
2,612 4,165 103,230 2,917 645,555
Ditches constructed
linear feet
21,343
Ditches constructed
cubic yards
6,516
Ditches maintained
80
12
As regards the effect of the measures in these cities, there is no doubt, in my opinion, that endemic yellow fever has been stamped out and that the stegomyia mosquito has been so effectively controlled as to minimise the risk that an epidemic would occur if undiscovered cases of the diseases were imported. At the same time it must be remembered that it is still possible to collect stegomyia larvæ even in the dry season, and for this reason it is the case that the continuance of the satisfactory condition above recorded is dependent entirely on a continuance of the present very efficient arrangements for regular inspection and destruction of breeding-places. Every year, however, the task is becoming easier by reason of the extension of the areas in which the sanitary conditions are such as almost entirely to eliminate the possibility of the existence of breeding-places suitable for the stegomyia mosquito.
The prevalence of other kinds of mosquitoes than stegomyia is not a matter with which the present report is concerned.
Finally, it may be noted that the demolition of many dilapidated houses and huts in which the poorer inhabitants used to live has brought about, especially in Colon, a great decrease in the number of dwellings suitable for those classes. The deficiency is being corrected to some extent by erecting approved tenement houses of which each room is rented separately; but as the rent charged for a single room in these houses is not less than eight dollars gold per month (about 24 rupees), the measure does not prevent the almost complete exclusion of poor people from the cities. The arrival of such people is also prevented by the immigration laws, which not only prohibit the admission into the country of persons of Chinese, Turkish, and Syrian descent, but require that everyone admitted must have in his possession at least 15 dollars and must be prepared to pay in addition 3 dollars 20 cents for quarantine charges. It is obvious, of course, that measures which result in exclud- ing all except well-to-do people from the population of a town have a great effect in improving its health statistics and in enabling it to be kept in a sanitary condition. In this connection it is not out of place to remark that the measure above mentioned is one among many which make it difficult to cite the cities now under consideration as examples of what can and should be done in other tropical towns.
Shipping Trade.-At present the Canal zone is brought into communication with other ports by the following shipping:-
linear feet
228,266
Notices to abate nuisances served
Nuisances abated
7,847 6,546
1. AT COLON.
Buildings inspected
42,898
Steamship Lines.
Frequency.
Port of call in yellow fever zone.
Rats killed
157
Alleys cleaned
Streets sprinkled
acres
12,999 276
United Fruit Company
4
per week
Crab holes worked
38,200
Colon and Cristobal garbage disposed of at the Ninth Street
dump.
Sanitation of Cristobal-
Pools oiled
Water receptacles treated ...
Mosquito-breeding places found
Ditches maintained
Crab holes worked
square yards
36,653
76,000
477
linear feet
1,310
1,800
Royal Mail Steam Packet
Company.
1 every fortnight
Bocas del Toro in Panama
Limon in Costa Rica.
Puerto Barrios in Guatemala, Santa Marta in Colombia.
Kingston in Jamaica.
New Orleans,
(New York).
La Guayra in Venezuela. Trinidad.
Barbados.
Kingston.
(New York).
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