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WEEK DAY.-Breakfast: Fried fish, oatmeal, bread, coffee. Dinner: Roast beef, browned potatoes, rice and peas, apple sauce, bread, tea. Supper: Stewed beef, boiled yam, rice and beans, pudding, bread, tea.
SUIDAY.-Breakfast: Hominy, coffee, bread. Dinne: Stewed beef, rice, lima beans, yams, macaroni and cheese, bread and tea. Suj'per: Boiled beef, rice and beans, yams, macaroni and cheese, cottage pudding, aple sauce, bread, tea.
N. B.-For breakas, oatmeal, hominy, and porridge are used in turn. Sugar and cream are served with tea and coffee.
The following are samples of meals served to Gallegos (Spaniards) "white laborers' by the Isthmian Canal Commission at rate of 40 cents United States currency per day:
Breakfast: Ham, pound; bread, 4 pound; potatoes, I pound; coffee. I
Dinner: Soup; fresh meat, I pound; garbanzas, 4 pound; beans, pound; potatoes, pound; macaroni, -I pound; bread, pound; tea.
Supper: Soup; stewed beef, 4 pound; garbanzas, I pound; potatoes, I pound; rice and beans; dessert; bread, I pound; coffee.
Note.-The Gallego laborers are hard workers and very hearty eaters.
Weights shown are of food before cooking.
The above is an average daily bill of fare.
Sugar and cream are served with tea and coffee.
Dessert consists of stewed fruit, such as prunes, apple sauce, peaches, or other stewed dried fruit .
Meals are prepared by Gallego cooks.
YELLOW FEVER.
Although it is nearly a year and a half since the last case of yellow fever occurred on theIsthmus,yet every precaution is taken to-day to prevent its recurrence. It is often asked what are the possible chances of a reintroduction ofyellow fever. Since yellow fever was eradicated from the Canal Zone, Panama, and Colon it has been present at ports to the north and'south of us on Atlantic and Pacific sides. It should again be stated that the quarantine service holds all persons from infected ports in quarantine until assured that no transmission of yellow fever from them is possible. If from any other source, or by any chance, a person having a case of yellow fever enters the Zone his chances of being bitten during the first three days (or dangerous period) is very small. The houses of nonimmune population Were the first to be screened and -made effectively mosquito proof, and they are kept so to-day. Adult stegomyia are exceedingly scarce in the vicinity of the screened
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