Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1912

File No. 823.124/2.

The American Minister to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
Lima, April 12, 1912.

I am asked by the President to request the Department to recommend some one to undertake the sanitation of Iquitos: a work kindred to that of Colonel Gorgas in the Canal Zone.

Howard.