. The Cuba review. 12 THE CUBA REVIEW THE HEALTH OF CUBA Illy Dr. K. 15. I'.arnet. Ilavaiia] The state of pulilic ht-alth in Culia is, without doubt, adiniraljle. Xnd if to this we add. that in the country districts, in the plains, in the thickness of the woods, and on tlie margins of the rivers, the trave- ler may move and rest in confidence and ease, because he is not threatened by poisonous serpents, nor poisonous insects, nor dangerous animals; it is not too much to say that Cuba is a land of promise which offers to its natives and to foreigners who visit its shores the products and laene-
. The Cuba review. 12 THE CUBA REVIEW THE HEALTH OF CUBA Illy Dr. K. 15. I'.arnet. Ilavaiia] The state of pulilic ht-alth in Culia is, without doubt, adiniraljle. Xnd if to this we add. that in the country districts, in the plains, in the thickness of the woods, and on tlie margins of the rivers, the trave- ler may move and rest in confidence and ease, because he is not threatened by poisonous serpents, nor poisonous insects, nor dangerous animals; it is not too much to say that Cuba is a land of promise which offers to its natives and to foreigners who visit its shores the products and laene- fits of a privileged soil and the necessary guarantees of health and life. According to the official census prepared by the Department of Government, the population of the republic of Cuba, on June 30, 1910, reached 2,220,278, a figure which may be considered below the real number on account of the increase which immigration and natality produce, but which increase has not been fully estimated because it has not been possible as yet to obtain a complete registration of these two sources of growth of the population. The annual death rate of 15,31 continues to keep Cuba at the head of the two countries which have the lowest mortality in the world, with an increase in favor of the native population, comparing the figures of births and deaths, of 42,862 inhabitants. and yellow fever, which for- merly were the greatest scourges of the island, have been practically eradicated, there having been no cases for a number of years. As regards malaria. Dr. Barnet said: "It is possible to affirm absolutely that malaria no longer exists in the city of Havana, and that each year the cases in other parts of the island become rarer. Dr. Le Roy has been able to prove that in 1900 the deaths in Cuba from malaria reached 4,107, a figure which has been steadily decreasing to 617, in the year 1910, for the entire ; Xine gypsies, who recently came to Culja with several be
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