The district physician also had inspectorial control of all buildings within his district. He was directed to pay particular attention to hotels, eating-houses, etc. He was required to make a monthly report on these subjects. Faults reported by the district physician were carefully looked after by the central sanitary office, and were usually promptly corrected by the responsible sanitary official. The sanitary inspector had the care of all the cemeteries in the Zone, which were twenty-odd in number. Each of the districts had a cemetery, and no burials were allowed except in these cemeteries. The inspector kept a register of all burials, and any death which was at all suspicious was investigated by the authorities of the Sanitary Department. The charge for preparing the grave was just about enough to cover the expense of digging. The control of the cemeteries by the Sanitary Department we considered very important from a sanitary point of view, as in this way we could keep an absolute register of all deaths occurring, and no death from a contagious or infectious disease could occur without the authorities being informed. On Flemenco Island was located one of our oldest cemeteries, though small in size. Here were buried quite a number of our naval officers and sailors who had died of yellow fever on our war vessels while in the bay of Panama during the preceding fifty years. Here were buried, also, patients who died at the nearby quarantine station. The site was beautifully located about half-way up Flemenco Hill, in a dense tropical forest, with just below it, at the water line, the vine-covered ruins of an old Spanish fort. At the present time the top of Flemenco Hill has been cut away for the location of one of our batteries. The old fort has been razed for the location of another battery and the tombs and monuments of the old cemetery have been moved to the grounds of Ancon Hospital. In the grounds of this hospital was located the cemetery where most of the employees and laborers who had died during the period of construction were buried. This also was a very picturesque place, situated on the side of Ancon mountain, looking to the north, with Culebra Cut instinctively in view. The grounds were prettily laid out and artistically planted with tropical trees and shrubbery. Here we had some two thousand interments.