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THE CUBA REVIEW 



ALL AROUND CUBA 



PUBLIC HOSPITALS IN CUBA 



The following cities of Cuba have public 

 hospitals, all sustained by the government. 

 The number is twenty-seven and are located 

 as follows: 

 Pinar del Rio Province, two. 



Guanajay, Pinar del Rio. 

 Havana Province, seven. 



Guines, Guanabacoa, Havana (3), Mazorra, 

 Santiago de las Vegas. 

 Matanzas Province, three. 



Col6n, Cardenas, Matanzas. 

 Santa Clara Province, eight. 



Cienfuegos, Sancti Spiritus, Remedies, 

 Sagua, Santa Clara (2), Trinidad, Yaguajay. 

 Camaguey Province, one. 



Camaguey. 

 Oriente Province, six. 



Bayamo, Manzanillo, Guantanamo, San- 

 tiago, Holguin, Victoria de las Tunas. 



The rules governing the admission of 

 patients were formulated by Dr. J. R. Kean, 

 U. S. A., and approved by General Leonard 

 Wood. 



There have been no changes in recent years. 



MANY ELECTRIC PLANTS AUTHORIZED 

 Eduardo R. Valera has been given govern - 

 ment permission to install an electric plant in 

 Melena del Sur, Havana Province. The 

 president has also authorized Antonio Rod- 

 riguez and Isidro Rovira to install an electric 

 plant in Marti, Matanzas and Guane. All 

 these towns are in Pinar del Rio Province. 

 Pedro Pablo Aguiar has likewise received 

 government permission to install an electric 

 plant in Candelaria, also in Pinar del Rio 

 Province. 



CUBA'S NATURALIZATION REQUIREMENTS 



A five years' residence is requirecl in Cuba 

 before an ahen can become a citizen, and 

 apphcants must not only speak the Spanish 

 language, but must stand an examination in 

 Spanish or Cuban laws and government, an 

 examination which as strict, if not stricter, in 

 its requirements than the examination re- 

 quired for natiu-aUzation in the United States. 

 — Isle of Pines Appeal. 



DRUG STORES IN CUBA 



There are 688 drug stores in Cuba, divided 

 among the six provinces as follows: 



Drug Stores. Population 



Pinar del Rio 46 257,983 



Havana 275 651,266 



Matanzas 95 270,483 



Santa Clara 143 567,694 



Camaguey 35 154,567 



Oriente 94 567,706 



— Diario de la Marina, Havana. 



CUBANS AVOID THE MOONLIGHT 



"I saw a man carrying an umbrella over him 

 one night," writes Tom Bonfield in The Appeal, 

 "when the sky was clear and the moon was 

 shining brightly. On the following night when 

 the sky was overcast, but with no immediate 

 prospects of rain, I saw a woman with an 

 umbrella spread over her. I had heai'd be- 

 fore that Cubans have a belief, or what Ameri- 

 cans would call a superstition, that exposure 

 to moonshine results in mental disorders — 

 — lunacy. The custom has almost disap- 

 peared, which is probably due to ridicule and 

 the more convincing fact that Cubans have 

 observed that Americans are not affected. 



"A Cuban family living in one of the finest 

 residences in Nueva Gerona sit almost nightly 

 on the porch during that part of the month 

 when the moon is not visible. But when the 

 moon is out, even though it is obscured by 

 clouds, the family invariably sit inside the 

 house." 



STRIKE AGAINST BAD ROADS 



Twenty trade unions in the city of Cien- 

 fuegos, Santa Clara Province, ordered a strike 

 on October 20th, because of the terrible con- 

 ditions of the roads and streets in and about 

 the city. 



The municipal council took notice of the 

 complaints and appropriated sufficient funds 

 to place the city's streets in proper repair. 



On this action being communicated to the 

 unions the strike was immediately terminated. 



IMPURE WATER AT CIENFUEGOS 



The water used in Cienfuegos, which is 

 brought to the city from the distant Hana- 

 banilla River, which at first was pure and color- 

 less, is now of a yellow color and very muddy. 



It is said these conditions are due to the 

 neglect of not placing filters in the reservoir 

 when it was constructed several years ago. 

 Sickness in the city is charged in great part to 

 the condition of the water.— Correspondence 

 of La Lucha, Havana. 



TIRSO MESA'S ESTATE 



The court in New York, on October 26th, 

 decided that the late Tirso Mesa y 

 Hernandez, who died in Cuba in 1908, leav- 

 ing securities of over a half million of dollars 

 in New York, was not a resident of the state, 

 but of Cuba, and therefore exempt from the 

 payment of a transfer tax. 



The matter has been pending in the courts 

 for four years. 



Mr. Mesa was killed while visiting one of 

 his estates in Santa Clara Province. 



