. The Cuba review. THE CUBA R K \- I !•: W 19 ONLY 5,000 AMERICANS IN CUBA iKrom i;. S. Consul Ceneral .lames L. Rodgfis. Havana) The last census of Cuba, that of 1907, gave the American population as 6,713, of which :;.91t7 were and females; of this, 6,026 were white and 687 colored. These American citizens were distributed as follows: In Camaguey Province, 715; in Habana Province, 3,706 (in the city of Habana, 2,422) ; in Matanzas Province, 387; in Oriente Province, ; in Pinar del Rio Province, ; and in Santa Clara Province, 431. As this census was taken during the ea
. The Cuba review. THE CUBA R K \- I !•: W 19 ONLY 5,000 AMERICANS IN CUBA iKrom i;. S. Consul Ceneral .lames L. Rodgfis. Havana) The last census of Cuba, that of 1907, gave the American population as 6,713, of which :;.91t7 were and females; of this, 6,026 were white and 687 colored. These American citizens were distributed as follows: In Camaguey Province, 715; in Habana Province, 3,706 (in the city of Habana, 2,422) ; in Matanzas Province, 387; in Oriente Province, ; in Pinar del Rio Province, ; and in Santa Clara Province, 431. As this census was taken during the early period of the last American inter- vention in Cuba, it is extremely probable that the American residents at that time were much more numerous than at present; in fact, it is to be doubted if in the whole of Cuba there are over 5,000 Americans at the present time. There is absolutely no waj' of determining this definitely, as but a small proportion of them are regis- tered at American consular offices. I am informed by the Deijartment of Sanitation, under whose control comes the department of the examination and regis- tration of physicians, that it cannot at present trace the American physicians, but it is stated that the number is exceedinglv small. In the same census referred to there were 1,240 physicians and surgeons ot all kinds, of whom 1,084 were native white and 9 colored, and 147 were foreign white. The American physician and sur- geon IS hardly in evidence in Cuba at all, this being shown ])y the fact that in the city of Havana there are only three li- censed physicians and surgeons' of Amer- ican nativity and about six dentists. MORE LIGHTHOUSES NEEDED It is said that hydrographic knowledge of the Caribbean Sea is scarcely more than it was four centuries ago. According to a writer in the Rez'iczv of Reviews, no accurate chart exists of the south coast of Cuba and its outlying keys. As com- pared to the )ilediterranean coast, with its 534 lighthouses, the Caribb
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