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Contemporaneous with the creation of the Panama Canal, was the Panama Railroad. During construction, estimates put the death toll, due to accidents and tropical disease, as hight 82,000.

At the peak, there were 500 deaths per week. To dispose of the corpses, The Panama Railroad Company, put the bodies in barrels, pickled them and sold them to medical schools.

For a period, that was the company’s main source of income.
 

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