General view of the Sanitarium, which is located four kilometers from the car station at 

 Jesus del Monte. The Sanitarium has been built on the San Juan loma, between the towns of 

 Arroyo Apolo and Arroyo Naranjo, occupying the grounds of the old Asuncion farm, which is 354 

 feet above the sea level in a very dry and airy climate. The cost of the farm was $15,000. 



SANITARIUM FOR CUBAN CONSUMPTIVES. 



Magnificent Buildings Recently Erected for Patients. Work of the National Board 



of Sanitation. 



The Cuban government has built a sanitation. Previous to that the Na- 

 new sanitarium at a cost of $120,000 tional Board of Sanitation had obtained 

 for the care of the consumptive patients appropriations from Congress, but the 

 at a point between Arroyo Naranjo and August, 1906, revolution stopped further 

 Arroyo Apolo, in Habana Province. outlays. 



That this sanitarium has been built 

 is due in part to Major Havard, U. S. A., 

 who was in Cuba during the first in- 

 tervention and who became very much 

 interested in the work of the "Liga 

 Contra la Tuberctilosis in Cuba," which 

 was organized in Cuba in 1901 by Dr. 

 Joaquin Jacobsen. 



Nothing was done for some time in 

 connection with the establishing of a 

 modern sanatoria following the recent 

 discovery of the treatment of the white 

 plague until the commencement of the 

 present intervention, when Major Jef- 

 ferson R. Kean .became supervisor of 



Typical four-room cottage. There are eight 

 like this at present at the Sanitarium. The 

 building is concrete, with tile roof in gable 

 fashion, so as to permit the air to circulate. The 

 windows are Venetian blinds, which can be closed 

 down when it rains, but always maintaining air 

 in the room. Each of the four rooms are sep- 

 arated by a wide corridor, and the partitions do 

 not reach, to the ceiling, to allow the air to cir- 

 culate. 



Typical view of a Dooker. There are twelve 

 of these, built along the plans of the great tuber- 

 culosis expert, Dr. Dooker of Germany. These 

 are isolated and are for patients in advanced 

 cases. Each of the huts is 9.6 feet by 9. These 

 are furnished with a bed, dresser and washing 

 stand. Notice should be taken of the system of 

 construction, to admit air froin every quarter. 

 In case of a rain storm while the hut is closed 

 there is always air in the hut through the upper 

 slats. 



