TROPICS AS THE "HUB."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 22 August 1907, Page 4

TROPICS AS THE "HUB."

Colonel \Y. C. (jorgas, cliief sanitary officer of tbe Isthmian Canal Commission, in an address before the Cornell Medical College, predicted that within, the next two or three centuries the tropics will be the centres of wealth, civilisation and population, as they were in the dawn ot human history. This prediction, says the Lancet, was baited on his experience in sanitation in. the Panama zone. He stated that by, the efforts of the sanitary branch of the commission malaria and yellow, fever -we been brought under control. There been no yellow fever on the Isthmus ol jnama for ikore than a year, and malarial fevers have been reduced to a. minimum. He concludes that the sanitarian can now show that any population coming into the tropics can protect itself against these two diseases by measures that are both simple and inexpensive; that these two diseases eliminated, life in the tropics for the Anglo-Saxon will be more healthful than in tlw temperate zones; and that gradually within the next two or three centuries tropical countries, which offer a much greater return for a man's labor than do the temperate zones, will be settled by the white races and become the centres of wealth, population and civilisation.