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William Crawford Gorgas thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his actions to ensure the Sanitary Department and sanitation policy in the Panama Canal zone were not overthrown. The Sanitary Department is now being praised, but it would not have been possible without Roosevelt’s support in 1905.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-24
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-03-27
Gorgas, William Crawford, 1854-1920
Shonts, Theodore P. (Theodore Perry), 1856-1919
English
William Crawford Gorgas notifies Congressman McKinley that he will receive the SS Blücher as requested, but any passengers who land at La Guaira, Venezuela, or ports in Colombia will be quarantined.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-03-13
William Crawford Gorgas notes that conditions are different and that the passengers landing at La Guayra, Venezuela, are subject to quarantine.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-03-09
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-03-27
Gorgas, William Crawford, 1854-1920
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
English
William Crawford Gorgas sends Theodore Roosevelt his paper on the expense of sanitation on the Isthmus as a response to a newspaper correspondent’s accusations of the Sanitary Department’s undue extravagance. He hopes the work in Panama will help establish a pattern of sanitation in tropical countries, but concern over cost will hinder this.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-11-12
Chief Sanitary Officer William Crawford Gorgas informs the Assistant to the General Manager of the Hamburg-American Line of a yellow fever quarantine in several Venezuelan ports. Gorgas explains how the quarantine will impact a ship landing in Panama to view the canal work.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-11-05
William Crawford Gorgas notifies Theodore P. Shonts that passengers who have landed at Venezuelan or Colombian ports are not allowed to land at Colón, Panama, without undergoing a six day quarantine.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-10-02