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Appendix C 281
out to them or even the most ordinary sanitary laws been
enforced, there would have been but little danger of sickness breaking out among them."
"Without exception," Mr. Bonsai continues, "all the
other places of residence which have been assigned to the
concentrados, I found to be uniformly on swampy and low-
lying ground, where the most intelligent care and the best
of attention could not have prevented the outbreak of the
several epidemics by which they are ravaged" (page 120).
Such was the condition of the concentrados before the
opening of the rainy season, when intense heat and moisture and lack of sanitation make every town a nest of
typhus and malarial fever. And these country people, one
must remember, "are as unacclimated to fever as though
they were Germans and Swedes recently landed. For on
the highlands where they have lived a case of fever is quite
as rare an occurrence as it is in New York city "
(page 127).
Without medicines or medical attendance, it would be
interesting to know how many of the original 400,000
are alive to-day.
| Title | Marching with Gomez |
| Creator | Flint, Grover |
| Publisher | Lamson, Wolffe and company |
| Place of Publication | Boston, New York [etc.] |
| Date | 1898 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000330 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | Appendix C 281 out to them or even the most ordinary sanitary laws been enforced, there would have been but little danger of sickness breaking out among them." "Without exception," Mr. Bonsai continues, "all the other places of residence which have been assigned to the concentrados, I found to be uniformly on swampy and low- lying ground, where the most intelligent care and the best of attention could not have prevented the outbreak of the several epidemics by which they are ravaged" (page 120). Such was the condition of the concentrados before the opening of the rainy season, when intense heat and moisture and lack of sanitation make every town a nest of typhus and malarial fever. And these country people, one must remember, "are as unacclimated to fever as though they were Germans and Swedes recently landed. For on the highlands where they have lived a case of fever is quite as rare an occurrence as it is in New York city " (page 127). Without medicines or medical attendance, it would be interesting to know how many of the original 400,000 are alive to-day. |
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