Temporary accommodation, even if only such as soldiers use when camped in the field, should have been provided.

Some work injustice by granting valuable rights in perpetuity without return.

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.

I visited many of the different villages, inspecting thoroughly many different buildings.

All the patients that I saw, with one or two exceptions, were laborers or other employees on the canal works and railways.

The timber and stone act has demonstrated conclusively that its effect is to turn over the public timber lands to great corporations.

Equal care is taken by the inspectors of the health department to secure cleanliness in the houses and proper hygienic conditions of every kind.

Everywhere are to be seen the drainage ditches which in removing the water have removed the breeding places of the mosquitoes.

I found the conditions perfect.

The desert land act results so frequently in fraud and so comparatively seldom in making homes on the land that it demands radical amendment.

Many of the existing laws affecting rights of way and privileges on public lands and reservations are illogical and unfair.

I also saw and had long talks with two deputations--one of machinists and one representing the railway men of the dirt trains.

Many of the buildings they put up were excellent and are still in use.

There is but one way by which the fraudulent acquisition of these lands can be definitely stopped.

I inspected the Ancon Hospital, going through various wards both for white patients and for colored patients.

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.

Actual--not constructive--living at home on the land for three years should be required before commutation.

I also examined certain of the schools and saw the school children, both white and colored, speaking with certain of the teachers.

The Isthmus had been a by-word for deadly unhealthfulness.

To have yielded to the natural impatience of ill-informed outsiders and begun all kinds of experiments in work prior to a thorough sanitation of the Isthmus, would have been disastrous.

The situation on the open government range is strikingly different.

Especial care has been devoted to minimizing the risk due to the presence of those species of mosquitoes which have been found to propagate malarial and yellow fevers.

It has done enormous harm, it is no longer needed, and it should be repealed.

I also inspected the receiving hospitals in various settlements.

I am gravely concerned at the extremely unsatisfactory condition of the public land laws and at the prevalence of fraud under their present provisions.