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THE CUBA REVIEW 



THE HEALTH OF CUBA 



Illy Dr. K. 15. I'.arnet. Ilavaiia] 



The state of pulilic ht-alth in Culia is, 

 without doubt, adiniraljle. Xnd if to this 

 we add. that in the country districts, in 

 the plains, in the thickness of the woods, 

 and on tlie margins of the rivers, the trave- 

 ler may move and rest in confidence and 

 ease, because he is not threatened by 

 poisonous serpents, nor poisonous insects, 

 nor dangerous animals; it is not too much 

 to say that Cuba is a land of promise 

 which offers to its natives and to foreigners 

 who visit its shores the products and laene- 

 fits of a privileged soil and the necessary 

 guarantees of health and life. 



According to the official census prepared 

 by the Department of Government, the 

 population of the republic of Cuba, on 

 June 30, 1910, reached 2,220,278, a figure 

 which may be considered below the real 

 number on account of the increase which 

 immigration and natality produce, but 

 which increase has not been fully estimated 

 because it has not been possible as yet to 



obtain a complete registration of these 

 two sources of growth of the population. 



The annual death rate of 15,31 continues 

 to keep Cuba at the head of the two 

 countries which have the lowest mortality 

 in the world, with an increase in favor of 

 the native population, comparing the figures 

 of births and deaths, of 42,862 inhabitants. 



Smallpo.x and yellow fever, which for- 

 merly were the greatest scourges of the 

 island, have been practically eradicated, 

 there having been no cases for a number 

 of years. As regards malaria. Dr. Barnet 

 said : 



"It is possible to affirm absolutely that 

 malaria no longer exists in the city of 

 Havana, and that each year the cases in 

 other parts of the island become rarer. 

 Dr. Le Roy has been able to prove that 

 in 1900 the deaths in Cuba from malaria 

 reached 4,107, a figure which has been 

 steadily decreasing to 617, in the year 1910, 

 for the entire republic." 



Xine gypsies, who recently came to 

 Culja with several bears, performing mon- 

 keys and dogs, have been ordered deported 

 by Commission of Immigration Frank 

 Menocal on the ground that they would 

 become public charges and because their 

 only means of support is public charity. 



Ihe plan of Cuba to erect a monument 

 fashioned after the Statue of Liberty at 

 the spot in Havana harbor where the 

 "Maine" was sunk has been abandoned, 

 says the Havana Post. The port authori- 

 ties feared that it would form a bar and 

 become a resultant peril to navigation. 



I'nitKl Stales Xaval Station at (uiantanamo, C'lilja. Revolver piactiLe of llie .\mencaii troops. 



Estacion Naval de los Estados Unidos en Guantanamo, Cuba. Las tropas americanas ejercitan- 



dntr ri! la prActira lirl yrToh'rr. 



