Instead of taking the sickness for granted and enlarging the French hospital, the chief medical inspector, gorgas, took for granted that there need be no unusual sickness if proper preventive measures were taken.
"Civics and Health"
William H. Allen
The first chief engineer appointed was Mr. John F. Wallace, who arrived on the Zone June 28, 1904, accompanied by Colonel gorgas, U.S.A., head of the Sanitation Department.
"The Panama Canal and its Makers"
Vaughan Cornish
In this connection I may perhaps be permitted to refer to an interesting suggestion made in the course of conversation by Colonel gorgas, although I omitted to inquire if it had been published.
"The Panama Canal and its Makers"
Vaughan Cornish
