CHAPTER XTV 



THE YELLOW FEVER CAMPAIGNS IN (1) HAVANA, CUBA; 

 (2) NEW ORLEANS; (3) HONDURAS; (4) RIO ; SANTOS ; 

 (5) CANAL ZONE ; (6) WEST INDIES ; AMAZON 



THE ANTI-YEIXOW FEVER CAMPAIGN IN 

 HAVANA, 1900 



This will always remain one of the first and one of 

 the greatest examples of what has been done to stamp 

 out a disease by concerted intelligent action and using 

 the latest and most modern weapons. When the 

 American Government took over the administration 

 of Cuba, one of the first things to be done was to 

 make Havana a livable place. Hitherto it had been 

 a notoriously imhealthy place, the natural home of 

 most pestilences, and with a corresponding mortality. 

 Thus we know that between the years 1853-1900 there 

 perished in the city of Havana alone 35,952 persons 

 of yellow fever. This is equivalent to 754 a year, 

 64 a month, or to 2 deaths a day. And now% after 

 General Woods, Colonel Gorgas, Guiteras, Finlay and 

 their other distinguished colleagues, to whom we have 

 had occasion to refer, took the situation firmly in hand 

 and organised a thoroughly efficient sanitary adminis- 



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