Industrial Cuba : being a study of present commercial and industrial conditions with suggestions as to the opportunities presented in the island for American capital, enterprise and labour . has quarantined against Havana,and other cities have drawn away from this sister in thetropics as from one plague-stricken. Yet this condition isnot of natures making, but of mans, and by man shall itbe changed into something better. Spain in herself was atyrant contagion and everything she touched became dis-eased and rotten to its vitals. And this terrible conditionwas not only physical, but moral, for m
Industrial Cuba : being a study of present commercial and industrial conditions with suggestions as to the opportunities presented in the island for American capital, enterprise and labour . has quarantined against Havana,and other cities have drawn away from this sister in thetropics as from one plague-stricken. Yet this condition isnot of natures making, but of mans, and by man shall itbe changed into something better. Spain in herself was atyrant contagion and everything she touched became dis-eased and rotten to its vitals. And this terrible conditionwas not only physical, but moral, for moral uncleanness issure always to follow physical uncleanness. This truthconstitutes a corollary out of which has grown the maxim, Cleanliness is next to Godliness. The first consideration, then, with the American authori-ties who have undertaken to clean Spains Augean Stablesin Cuba is sanitation; and already the best thought andknowledge and experience we have are being brought tobear upon the stupendous task before us. As has been stated, Cuba is not naturally unhealthfulfor a hot, wet country; and among the mountains in itsinterior and in many places along the coasts, removed 108. I 3 O 2 > £ a: a Sanitary Work in Cuba 109 from the filthiness of aggregated population, the averagemortality is not higher than it is in lands of better reputefor healthfulness, and the general health is quite as might be expected, there is not that strength and robust-ness of physique characterising the people of the higherlatitudes, nor is the climate conducive to the pink-and-whitehealth of northerners; but though the people are less ruggedof constitution and frame and lungs, and lack the outwardsigns of northern health, they are by no means constantsubjects for physicians care and they are anything butchronic candidates for the cemetery. Even in the nastycities they are not all so, for there are many who are ableto have their own houses well located, and to adopt modernmethods of
Size: 1364px × 1831px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookidindustrialcubabe00port
