YELLOW FEVER CONTROL IN ECUADOR

Resumen

The files of the National Board of Health of Ecuador show that the first recorded epidemic of yellow fever in the country occurred in the city of Guayaquil in the year 1842, and it was estimated at that time that one half of the population of the city died from this disease during the epidemic. Yellow fever was probably introduced into Ecuador from Panama by the earlier settlers soon after the appearance of the disease at Panama, and has probably been present in Ecuador since that time, notwithstanding the fact that the records of the sanitary department report as many as three consecutive months in one year having passed without a single recognizable case of the disease. It undoubtedly was present, but in a type so benign as not to be easily diagnosed, especially in children. The Gorgas commission of the International Health Board in a world survey for endemic