THE CUBA REVIEW 



39 



STAY HEALTHY IN THE TROPICS 



Dr. Anton Broinl, director of the Austra- 

 lian Institute of Tropical Medicine, con- 

 firms the observations made by x\merican 

 scientists in denial of the theory that a 

 white man's blood deteriorates or becomes 

 thin in tropical climes. The American ob- 

 servations had been made in comparison of 

 the blood corpuscles of acclimated East In- 

 dians and American soldiers of long ser- 

 vice in the Philippines, and those showed 

 that no appreciable change had taken 

 place. Similar results have been obtained 

 lay Dr. Broinl from experiments on school 

 children in an Australian town. 



What is called tropic anaemia, pallor 

 and listlessness, observable in the inhab- 

 itants of hot climates, is really due, not to 

 any defect in the blood, but to minute 

 changes in the outer skin, according to 

 Dr. Broinl, and along these lines there is 

 need of further researcli to establish the 

 actual influence of high temperatures on 

 physical organisms. 



A BIT OF HISTORY 



Great Britain once possessed Cuba, but 

 abandoned it as a worthless fever stricken 

 island and relinquished such possession to 

 Spain. The Dublin Express tells the story 

 thus briefly : 



"The island was captured by the British 

 in 1762 in circumstances of the most ex- 

 treme difficulty. Yellow fever was raging 

 with extraordinary violence, and we lost 

 men at the rate of a thousand a week. But 

 our sailors and soldiers stuck to their task 

 and won. In the British way, we soon 

 began the work of pacification ; and the 

 government of the island immediately un- 

 derwent a great change for the better. But 

 only a year or so later, when peace was 

 patched up between the belligerents in 

 Europe, our statesmen, for reasons of higli 

 policy and with no great foresight, handed 

 Cuba back to Spain, and for many long- 

 years the people sufl'ered a misrule from 

 which they were freed by the Spanish- 

 American war of the end of last century. 

 Here again Cuba came to be another case 

 of a lost possession, as the Americans 

 honorably fulfilled their undertaking to 

 give up tlie island when once sound, just 

 government had been established." 



VALUE OF CERRO PROPERTY 



Our host told us that his father bought 

 that place which covers one square in Cerro 

 on the outskirts of Havana about 40 years 

 ago for $800 and now it is worth $50,000. 

 Real estate is growing in value fast in 

 Havana. 



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