But something more happened. something in the nature of a miracle. for with drainage and public health. the malariabearing mosquito was vanquished and with it the disease. which had undermined the health of those who came to rebuild the wasteland. Perhaps this does not seem a great achievement. Let me remind you that when the United States was building the Panama Canal. it was Government and not civilians. it was an Army Medical Corps that vanquished malaria and yellow fever and safeguarded the health of the native as well as the American. And so it was in Palestine. The whole population benefited. Disease and its carriers need no visas nor passports to cross boundaries. They attack with impunity friend and foe. native and visitor. Who helps eradicate disease benefits all mankind.