The fatalities from the disease have fallen from 233 in 1906 to 154 in 1907, to 73 in 1908 and to 7 in 1914.

The death rate for malarial fever per 1000 population sank from 8.49 in 1906 to 0.11 in 1918.

Dysentery, next to malaria the most serious of the tropical diseases in the Zone, caused 69 deaths in 1906; 48 in 1907; in 1908, with nearly 44,000, only 16 deaths, and in 1914, 4.( *) But it is when the general figures are taken that we see the extraordinary reduction that has taken place.

Out of every 1000 engaged in 1908 only a third of the number died that died in 1906, and half the number that died in 1907.
(*) Figures for recent years supplied by editors.
In 1914, the death rate from disease among white males had fallen to 3.13 per thousand.

The rate among the 2674 American women and children connected with the Commission was only 9.72 per thousand.