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hospital, or closed. The quarantine organization 

 shoiild remain permanent. 



It is to be understood that the figures given are 

 merely approximate, and based on the cost in the 

 city of Panama. This estimate is subject to wide 

 variations under varying local conditions. 



Yellow fever was eradicated in towns in Cuba 

 without the installation of sewer and water supply. 

 In the absence of these conveniences, it will 

 depend upon the conscientious work of those in 

 charge of the mosquito-control campaign whether 

 fever wiU be reintroduced. At Santiago de las 

 Vegas, Cuba, a town of about 10,000 inhabi- 

 tants of which ten per cent, were non-immunes, 

 yellow fever was eradicated and mosquito breed- 

 ing places eliminated within three months at a 

 cost of less than $5000. 



In that case the chief sanitary officer was well 

 supported by the governor and town officials. 



In 191 1, in reply to a question relating to the 

 world's greatest events, the Right Honourable 

 James Bryce, Ambassador to the United States, 

 said: In modern times most of the events of high- 

 est ultimate significance have been discoveries in 

 the realms of nature or inventions in the realm of 

 industry; and their magnitude is seldom known 

 at first. Little was said of the discovery that 



