. The Cuba review. A view of the grounds and men's ward of the Cuban Insane Hospital at ^lazorra. Much of the garden work as well as the cultivation of an ex- tensive farm and truck garden is carried on bv the more tractable in- mates. Government school at Ma- zorra. In this neat modern structure, school is conducted for the benefit of the chil- dren of hospital employees and neighboring planters, and it was a bright, interest- ing lot of children who as- sembled on the CUBA S INSANE ASYLUM Dreadful conditions among the Cuban insane confined at the national asylum at Mazorra, near Hava
. The Cuba review. A view of the grounds and men's ward of the Cuban Insane Hospital at ^lazorra. Much of the garden work as well as the cultivation of an ex- tensive farm and truck garden is carried on bv the more tractable in- mates. Government school at Ma- zorra. In this neat modern structure, school is conducted for the benefit of the chil- dren of hospital employees and neighboring planters, and it was a bright, interest- ing lot of children who as- sembled on the CUBA S INSANE ASYLUM Dreadful conditions among the Cuban insane confined at the national asylum at Mazorra, near Havana, are disclosed in a report published in El Mundo. Upwards of men and women from all parts of the island are kept in the in- stitution in a state of frightful squallor and hundreds among them are nearly naked, without beds or chairs and provided with insufficient food of the poorest quality, says the report. The condition of the women patients is declared to be even more deplorable than that of the inen. All classes of insane people, except the .\pproach and entrance to women's ward Insane Asyhim at ^Nlazorra, The main building is seen back of the one-story structure which serves as an office and steward's store-room. Everything here is of the most mod- ern type and scrupu- lously clean, while the surroundings are particu- larly attractive with the many fine trees, flowering plants and shrubbery. most violent, are said to be miscellaneously herded together in foul courts. It has long been known that conditions at the asylutn were bad, according to El Muiido, but the real state of affairs was unknown. At the beginning of the second interven- tion in Cuba by the United States, the place was found in a similar condition. After the reconstruction by General Wood it was again reorganized and remodelled at great expense by Colonel Grobel, of the United States army, and at the close of the period of intervention it was in all respects a model institution. Immediately there- af
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