3IO The Control of Mosquitoes 



ter of considerable difficulty to find a suitable 

 landing place and then travel overland to some 

 center of population. 



3. A ship might touch at a yellow fever port, 

 and either take on a passenger there, and show 

 him, by false entry on a passenger list, as having 

 boarded at another port; or allow some passengers 

 or members of the crew to go ashore for awhile at a 

 . yellow fever port, and not make this fact known 

 to the quarantine officers at Colon or Panama. 

 While this would be a dangerous thing for the 

 commander of a ship to do, one such case occurred 

 at Colon. A ship of a well-known steamship line 

 touched at a certain yellow fever port before com- 

 ing to Colon. At Colon the captain subscribed to 

 the statement that no one was allowed ashore 

 while the ship remained in the yellow fever port. 

 This statement was accepted by the quarantine 

 officer at Colon, and the passengers allowed to 

 land. 



Among the passengers was a young Englishman. 

 Four days after his arrival he had an attack of 

 yellow fever. Eight days later he was taken to 

 Ancon Hospital where he died on the thirteenth 

 day of the disease. Before he was taken to the 

 hospital, throughout the period of infectibility, he 

 lived in an apartment house in the city of Panama, 



