# Sanitation in Panama

Author: Gorgas, William Crawford, 1854-1920

Genre: Category: History - Modern (1750+)

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70624

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Sanitation+in+Panama+Gorgas&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Yellow fever for two hundred years before the Spanish-American War caused great loss of life and much destruction of wealth. Every few years portions of the United States would become infected with this disease. In the earlier part of this period the disease was more or less local. As the Mississippi valley became more thickly populated, the extent of the disease and the injury caused became very much augmented. The epidemic of 1878 was probably the deadliest and most extensive epidemic of yellow fever which ever affected the United States. In this epidemic over thirteen thousand people in the Mississippi valley alone lost their lives, and the loss of wealth is estimated at considerably m...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sanitation-in-panama-70624/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sanitation-in-panama-70624/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sanitation-in-panama-70624/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sanitation-in-panama-70624/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sanitation-in-panama-70624/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sanitation-in-panama-70624/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sanitation-in-panama-70624/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sanitation-in-panama-70624/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sanitation-in-panama-70624/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sanitation-in-panama-70624/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sanitation-in-panama-70624/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sanitation-in-panama-70624/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sanitation-in-panama-70624/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sanitation-in-panama-70624/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sanitation-in-panama-70624/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sanitation-in-panama-70624/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sanitation-in-panama-70624/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sanitation-in-panama-70624/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sanitation-in-panama-70624/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sanitation-in-panama-70624/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sanitation-in-panama-70624/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sanitation-in-panama-70624/chapters/21/index.md)