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 . ever, which has prevailed here without interruption for one hun-dred and sixty-eight years, fall constant victims under the per-nicious malarial and depressing influences to which they arealways subjected; and it needs only the immigration of freshmaterial, which the enterprise of our population is sure to bringhere, to create a sacrifice such as we have not yet known; whilecommerce will carry the terror a
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 . ever, which has prevailed here without interruption for one hun-dred and sixty-eight years, fall constant victims under the per-nicious malarial and depressing influences to which they arealways subjected; and it needs only the immigration of freshmaterial, which the enterprise of our population is sure to bringhere, to create a sacrifice such as we have not yet known; whilecommerce will carry the terror and the terrible scourge of yellowfever to our shores, until we rise again in a war of humanity,and at all costs wipe out an enemy with which no military valourcan cope. 11 Can Havana be purified ? And if so, will such purificationresult in the eradication of yellow fever and malaria ? Bothquestions can be answered affirmatively and positively. Havanais no dirtier than many another city has been. In England, inthe olden time, the earthen floors were strewn with these became sodden with filth beyond all endurance,fresh rushes were thrown over the old ones, and these in turn. Colonel Warings Sanitary Report 157 were buried, until the foul accumulation was several feet was allowed to remain in and around the houses in-definitely, or was thrown into the streets regardless of conse-quences. In London, the frequent cry of, Ware below ! indicated that the household slops were about to be poured froman upper window. These conditions remained until repeatedvisits of the great sanitary teachers—the plague, the black death,the cholera, and other pestilences, which devastated cities andswept whole villages out of existence—had taught their hard les-son. On the continent the ignorance and neglect were, if possi-ble, even greater. We have profited by the bitter experience ofour ancestors; and no intelligent person questions the merit ofsanitary works. But their
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