Now let us consider the totals: We had an average of 900 men sick every day. For the year, this would give us 328,500 days of sickness, and for the ten years 3,285,000 days of sickness. If our rate had been 300 per 1,000, a very moderate figure compared with what it was under the French, we should have had 11,700 sick every day. For the year, this would have given us 4,270,500 days of sickness and for the ten years, 42,705,000, a saving of 39,420,000 days of sickness during this period. This saving must justly be credited to sanitation. It cost us about one dollar a day to care for a sick man on the Isthmus. The Commission cared for the sick free of charge. Every day, therefore, of sickness prevented on the Isthmus lessened the expense which the Commission had to bear by one dollar. The Commission was therefore saved by this sanitary work, if we consider the whole ten years of construction, $39,420,000. This represents only one phase of the saving due to sanitation, merely the saving due to decrease in the numbers of sick who had to be cared for. But the sanitary work really saved much more than this. If three hundred men out of every one thousand of our employees had been sick every day, the efficiency of the other seven hundred would have been correspondingly decreased. The other seven hundred would have been more or less debilitated, and more or less depressed, and the amount of work turned out daily by each man would have been considerably less than it actually was for the employee enjoying good health and cheerful surroundings. We should have had to pay considerably higher wages, if the Isthmus had continued to bear the reputation during our period of construction which it had always borne during the years preceding 1904; if, for instance, it had been known that three out of every ten men going to work on the Canal would be sick all the time, and that two out of every ten would die each year, and that the whole ten would be dead at the end of five years. Great loss was caused to us in the first years on the Isthmus by the demoralization among the working force, and almost stoppage of work which took place during periods of exacerbation in the yellow-fever condition, or when prominent employees died of that disease. Great loss also occurred to the French on this account. Mr. Bunau-Varilla described very graphically the condition of his force as the result of such conditions. Mr. Bunau-Varilla was one of the most prominent of the French engineers for the old French Company, and was their chief engineer from 1885 to 1887. I do not think that anyone familiar with the conditions would question the statement that a larger sum in dollars and cents was saved to the Commission in these ways than was saved by the direct decrease in the number of sick.