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Teddy Roosevelt: “Now, after two years of our occupation the conditions as regards sickness and the death rate compare favorably with…”

On the recordDecember 16, 1906
Now, after two years of our occupation the conditions as regards sickness and the death rate compare favorably with reasonably healthy localities in the United States.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Message to Congress After Returning from the Canal Zone in Panama

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