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 . n closets, and are handledas elsewhere, with the usual results. The streets are narrow(thirty feet wide), dirty, and unpaved; in the wet seasonthey are vile. The houses are built of porous stone, whichabsorbs the dampness; the floors, laid on the ground, areoverflowed by the rains, and their smell at all times isdifficult to describe and dangerous to health. The deathsper year for 1895 were 1465, with a no
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 . n closets, and are handledas elsewhere, with the usual results. The streets are narrow(thirty feet wide), dirty, and unpaved; in the wet seasonthey are vile. The houses are built of porous stone, whichabsorbs the dampness; the floors, laid on the ground, areoverflowed by the rains, and their smell at all times isdifficult to describe and dangerous to health. The deathsper year for 1895 were 1465, with a nominal population of50,000, although it was cut to 35,000 by the insurrection;in 1896, 2399; in 1897, 6795; and in 1898, to September,3901—which fearful figures may be accounted for by the factthat Matanzas was the centre for reconcentrados, and theydied like sheep—eighty per cent, of them from only disinfection that could reach this condition wasapplied to Spain by the United States, and there will neverbe any more epidemics of starvation in Cuba, or any morereconcentrados, for that matter. But even without herreconcentrado population, Matanzas is no health resort,. Sanitary Work in Cuba 117 and the cleansing hand must be applied to her early andvigorously. Cardenas, a city of twenty thousand people, more or less,is set down in the midst of a swamp, rarely more than tenfeet above sea-level, and oftener only three or four. Itsnarrow streets are lacking in pavements or sewers. Lyingcontiguous to the south-east side of the city are more thanthirty thousand acres of swamp, a fecund breeding-groundfor typhus- and yellow-fever germs. Twenty years ago acommission was appointed to inquire into the constructionof a canal to drain this swamp into the Anton River, but atthis present date no canal is in sight, and the fever germsgo merrily on in their work of supplying the cemeterieswith subjects. The water supply is good, but many of thepeople prefer to buy dangerous we
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