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deceased and knew that a fellow-countryman of 

 his was a bartender at the old theater. A day's 

 search located this person. He was in bed, sick 

 with a pronounced case of yellow fever. He stated 

 that he and his fellow-countryman had slept in the 

 barroom of the theater. It was then too late an 

 hour to fumigate the theater. It was closed and 

 no performance permitted. The same night the 

 daughter of the prima donna came down with 

 yellow fever. She died a few days later. The 

 data obtained showed a strong focus of infection 

 at the theater, and this information prevented 

 further spread of the disease. The theater was 

 particularly dangerous, because non-immunes 

 gathered there in numbers, and had infected Aedes 

 calopus remained in the building they would have 

 continued the infection. 



The last case of yellow fever in the Canal Zone 

 occurred at Matachin on September 28, 1905. 

 The patient was the station agent. The case had 

 a number of interesting features. For two months 

 previous to the attack he had never left the village. 

 No other case of yellow fever had occurred recently 

 in the Canal Zone, although a few had been found 

 in Colon. This was the first and only case that 

 occurred at Matachin. The only case that it 

 corresponded with in point of infection was that 



