333 



Index 



Pipe for drainage, 149 



screening entrances of, 



149 



Plan of campaign, estunated 

 cost, 321 



Plants, water holding, 72 



Porto Bello, reintroduction of 

 Aedes calopus, 308 



Pot-holes {see Ditches) 



Potato hooks, to uproot aquat- 

 ic plants, 192 



Proctor, Mr., mosquito trap, 

 216 



Prophylactic inoculation of 

 yellow fever, 241 



Pumps for oiling, 166, 168 



Pyrethrum, fumigant, 247, 254 



Pyrocresol, larvacide, 178 



Quarantine, cost of maritime, 



a plan for organization, 



319.3?! 



precautious, 308 



suspects, 309 



Quimby, E. F., apparatus for 

 . registering flight, 107 



Rainfall, charts, and topo- 

 graphy, 27 

 continuous, effect of, 23, 



58 

 continuity compared with 



volume, 33 

 heavy showers remove 



larvae, 11 



effect of sudden, 61 



variations of, 59 



Real estate values affected by 

 mosquito control, 3, 10, 121, 



319 „ . . 



Reed, Dr. W., experiments m 



yellow fever transmission, 



231 

 Reinforced concrete {see 



Ditches) 

 Research required, 69, 223 

 Reservoirs, clearing of, 68 



preparation of sites for, 



193 



Rivers, blocking of, 70 



Rivers, mosquito control on 

 the Rio Grande, 64 



Rock, decomposition of, at 

 Culebra Cut, 118 



Roosevelt, President, appoint- 

 ment of Colonel Gorgas, 16 



Ross, Sir Ronald, anti-malaria 

 work in the East, 3, 5 



Prevention of Malaria, 151 



Sambon, Dr. L. W., observa- 

 tions at Ostia, 198 



Sanitary regulations, compul- 

 sory reports of fevers in 

 Panama, 285 



fines, 239, 275 



hotel and boarding house 



registers, 308 



impounding cattle, 57 



need for, during engineer- 

 ing work, 70, 116 



Ordinance 6, 273 



physicians' reports at 



Havana, 243 



in Panama treaty, 272 



Santiago de las Vegas, cost 

 of yellow fever eradication, 



323 . . 



eradication of yellow 



fever, 243, 291 

 Screening of cars, 203 



city of Panama, 277 



copper gauze, 198 



crevices in perfectly 



screened buildings, 204 

 doors, 87, 199, 201, 280, 



306 



imperfect, 204 



inspection by Health 



Dept., 205 

 metal, composition of, 



199, 207, 224 



metallic, 206 



position for doors, 87 



protection of, 201 



repairing of, 205, 306 



of sick-rooms, 244 



of tents, 203 



verandas, 199 



