Yellow fever and its prevention : a manual for medical students and practitioners / by Sir Rubert W. Boyce.

  • Boyce, Sir Rubert William, 1863-1911.
Date:
1911
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    Yellow fever commences to be recorded about the middle of the nineteenth century, 401 cases being recorded in San Salvador in 1868. Small outbreaks and sporadic cases are of very frequent occurrence. References for Yellow Fever in Salvador C O RNILLI AC—Recherches ch ronologiq ues. Guzman—These, Paris, 1869. Panama, was no doubt until recent years an endemic centre of yellow fever. The construction of the Isthmian Canal, and the giving over to the Isthmian Canal Commission of the Isthmian Canal Zone, as well as the placing of other towns in the vicinity under modern sanitary supervision, has effected the complete disappearance of endemic yellow fever. As showing the immense strides in yellow fever preventive measures, it is worthy of note that the French in the first year of their attempt to construct a canal had a death-rate of 608 per thousand, the American Commission a death-rate of 15-8 per thousand employees. Since 1905 there have been no cases of yellow fever. References for Yellow Fever in Panama Public Health Reports, loc. cit. BOYCE (Sir R. W.)—Health Progress, loc. cit. Isthmian Canal Commission, 1908, Annual Report. Dept. of Sanitation. Isthmian Canal Commission, 1906, Bulletin No. 2. Laboratory of the Board of Health. Isthmian Canal Commission, Reports of Health Officer, 1905-1907 (Georgas, W. G.). Carter (R. H.)— Notes on the Sanitation of Yellow Fever and Malaria, from Isthmian Experience, Medical Record, vol. lxxvi., July 1909.
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