Letter from Paul Osterhout to the Surgeon General, Washington, D.C. regarding the fourth Yellow Fever victim in the Panama Canal area Funding for the creation of this digitized text is provided by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.Osterhout, Paul, 1859-1944 Creation of digital images: Center for Digital Scholarship, Rice University Creation of transcription: Carolyn Adams, Project Coordinator, Humanities Research Center Conversion to TEI-conformant markup: Rice University Parsing and proofing: Humanities Research Center and Fondren Library, Rice University Subject analysis and assignment of taxonomy terms: Melissa Torres Rice University Houston, Texas 2010-06-07 aa00124

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 Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus Library of Congress Subject Headings Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names English Correspondence Yellow fever--Panama Bocas del Toro (inhabited place)Washington (inhabited place) U. S. PUBLIC HEALTH AND MARINE-HOSPITAL SERVICE, OFFICE OF MEDICAL OFFICER IN COMMAND. Bocas del Toro, Panama October 2, 1905. Surgeon-General, Public Health & Marine-Hospital Service, Washington, D.C., Sir:

I have the honor to report the existence of the fourth case of yellow fever to originate in this port this season.

The patient Mr. N. F. Ward, machinist in the employ of the United Fruit Co., came to the company's hospital from the Changuinola river about 7 p.m. Sept. 30, 1905: by invitation of Dr. Swigert I saw him the morning of October 1, 1905.

Infection in this case evidently acquired in the town of Bocas del Toro, as the man was taking his meals in a restaurant only a few yards from the house where the third case (Mrs. Cole) is living, and was taken sick about three days after leaving the town.

Respectfully, Paul Osterhout Act'g Ass't Surg' P. H. & M-H. Service.