All the patients that I saw, with one or two exceptions, were laborers or other employees on the canal works and railways.
Many of the buildings they put up were excellent and are still in use.
The Isthmus had been a by-word for deadly unhealthfulness.
I am gravely concerned at the extremely unsatisfactory condition of the public land laws and at the prevalence of fraud under their present ...
Some work injustice by granting valuable rights in perpetuity without return.
I inspected the Ancon Hospital, going through various wards both for white patients and for colored patients.
The first great problem to be solved, upon the solution of which the success of the rest of the work depended, was the problem of sanitation...
The desert land act results so frequently in fraud and so comparatively seldom in making homes on the land that it demands radical amendment...
The boundaries of the national forest reserves unavoidably include certain valuable timber lands not owned by the government.
Equal care is taken by the inspectors of the health department to secure cleanliness in the houses and proper hygienic conditions of every k...
To have yielded to the natural impatience of ill-informed outsiders and begun all kinds of experiments in work prior to a thorough sanitatio...
The present coal law limiting the individual entry to 160 acres puts a premium on fraud.
Everywhere are to be seen the drainage ditches which in removing the water have removed the breeding places of the mosquitoes.
I also examined certain of the schools and saw the school children, both white and colored, speaking with certain of the teachers.
Temporary accommodation, even if only such as soldiers use when camped in the field, should have been provided.
Many of the existing laws affecting rights of way and privileges on public lands and reservations are illogical and unfair.
Actual--not constructive--living at home on the land for three years should be required before commutation.
It must be remembered that his work was not mere sanitation as the term is understood in our ordinary municipal work.
