. The Cuba review. 18 THE CUBA Reservoir at Vento, which supplies all Havana and suburbs with the finest of drinking water DANGEROUS OLD WATER SYSTEMS. Sanitary Conditions in Camaguey. In a report made by Dr. Juan Guiteras of the National Board of Sanitation, he has recommended the rushing of work on the aqueduct for Camaguey as a measure of imperative need to improve the sanitary conditions there. The city, says the doctor, has grown. There are big industries, a trolley car system and many other modern im- provements, but residents are still obliged to secure a supply of water from t
. The Cuba review. 18 THE CUBA Reservoir at Vento, which supplies all Havana and suburbs with the finest of drinking water DANGEROUS OLD WATER SYSTEMS. Sanitary Conditions in Camaguey. In a report made by Dr. Juan Guiteras of the National Board of Sanitation, he has recommended the rushing of work on the aqueduct for Camaguey as a measure of imperative need to improve the sanitary conditions there. The city, says the doctor, has grown. There are big industries, a trolley car system and many other modern im- provements, but residents are still obliged to secure a supply of water from the old "tinajons" and from cisterns of rain water. These systems, very old and anti- quated, gave out during the last drouth and people had to drink water from places where it was plainly polluted, and this caused intestinal diseases. A great deal of trouble has also been experienced by the people persisting in resisting sanitary ordinances. Owing to the use of shallow wells, which fre- quently were within a few feet of the foulest kind of cesspools, the Sanitary Department ordered all the cesspools cemented. This was done, but the peo- ple found that while before the cesspools were kept constantly drained by filtering into the wells, the cemented cesspools overflowed and had to be cleaned out occasionally. This made entirely too much work, even if it protected the lives of their families, and they proceeded to break the cement at the bottom of the cesspools with crowbars, thus leaving an egress for the filth. The recent widespread prevalence of fever in the city is attributed to this, for as the wells became dryer the greater became the percentage of foulness in the water and fever was the natural result. The main pipe carrying the water sup- ply to the City of Havana from the Vento Springs is to be changed from 32 inches to 42 inches, in order to suppjy the new Havana suburbs. An aqueduct is urgently needed in Cienfuegos, as the city is now getting its water supply
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