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Panama Canal Resources: Sanitation

Materials in the Collections

Examples of materials in the collection. Talk with a Research Specialist for help locating additional materials.

American Medicine and the Panama Canal by E. Chaves-Carballo
Call Number: 2nd Floor RC960 .C49 2014
ISBN: 9781618636850
The Darkest Jungle by Todd Balf
Call Number: 2nd Floor HE537.1 .B35 2003
ISBN: 9780609609897
Tropical World of Samuel Taylor Darling by E. Chaves-Carballo
Call Number: RC961.5.D37 C42 2007 Rare Book Cage
In the History of Science Library
The Tropical World of Samual Taylor Darling: parasites, pathology, and philanthropy by E. Chaves-Carballo
Publication Date: 2007
Sample pages from the book are available at Google Books.
Mosquito control in Panama; the eradication of malaria and yellow fever in Cuba and Panama by Joseph A. Le Prince and A. J. Orenstein; with an introduction by L. O. Howard
Call Number: RC116 .L43 1916 Rare Book Cage
In the History of Science Library
A study of the water supplies of the Isthmus of Panama by John R. Downes
Call Number: TC774 .S8 1910 Rare Book Cage
Reprinted from Proceedings of the Medical Association of the Isthmus of Panama, read September 1910.
Nature's Agents or Agents of Empire? Entomological Workers and Environmental Change during the Construction of the Panama Canal by Paul S. Sutter
Isis. Vol. 98, No. 4 (Dec. 2007) pp. 724-754

Images from the A.B. Nichols Collection

Ancon Hospital. Wards 9 and 10. A.B. Nichols Notebook Vol. 31. p. 64. 1907.

Worker spraying larvicide. A. B. Nichols Notebook. Vol. 48. Page 33. 1907-1912.

In the LHL Digital Collection

Sanitation of the Isthmus by Joseph Buckland Bishop
from a bound collection of articles on the Panama Canal
Sanitary Inspection of the Canal Zone by A. J. Orenstein, Assistant Chief of Sanitary Inspector, Canal Zone
Article is a reprint of an article published in the American Journal of Public Health. March 1912.
Sanitation on the Canal Zone by W. C. Gorgas
Transcript of commencement address delivered by W. C. Gorgas, M.D.' at Johns Hopkins University, June 11, 1912.

JSTOR Articles on Malaria and the Panama Canal

Malaria and the Panama Canal
Many of these articles have open access. Others can be found at Linda Hall Library or other libraries.