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Updated: May 1, 2025

Outside, before each room, a tin fireplace for cooking precariously bestrided the veranda rail. Often a tumble-down hovel where three would seem a crowd yielded up more than a dozen inmates, many of whom, being at work, must be looked for later the "back-calls" that is the bete-noire of the census enumerator.

Harry Alverson Franck - Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers