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President Roosevelt encloses a letter from Dr. Welch which provides information about Dr. Wright. Sanitation and hygiene will be of the first importance on the isthmus of Panama. Employees must be healthy to complete their work and Roosevelt wants the best medical professionals in the country to supervise.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-02-24
This film has two brief shots of Dr. William Crawford Gorgas, chief sanitation officer of the Panama Canal (1904-1913) and a member of the Isthmian Canal Commission. Gorgas is accompanied by an unidentified man in the first shot.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1904-1913
Several legislators appear as quack physicians trying to cure a large sick man labeled “Protection” with a packet of “Boodle” on his lap. From left are “Hill, Pugh, Vest, Chandler, Brice, Hoar, Peffer, Gorman, [and] McPherson,” and John Sherman. They apply such medications as “Delay Tonic, Concessions to Trusts, Sympathy, Wind, Senatorial Fog, Obstruction Pills, [and] Misleading Talk.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-07-18