THE CUBA REVIEW, 



The senate refused to 

 Work grant the apphcation made by 



of the Havana's Mayor, Julio de 



Senate. Cardenas, and Commander 



Julio Morales Coello to re- 

 ceive from the government of Spain the 

 decoration of the naval order of the second 

 class with the white distinctive, granted 

 them for their courtesies to the sailors of 

 the Spanish schoolship Nautilus. 



The application of Ricardo Herrera, 

 Cuban consul at Malaga, Spain, whom the 

 Tunis government offered the title of officer 

 in the Order of Nichan Itikar, was like- 

 wise denied. 



Senator Perez's bill providing for an 

 aqueduct for Santa Clara was favorably re- 

 ported by both the public works and finance 

 committee, the former making the appro- 

 priation $450,000, and the latter $350,000. 



The Senator said the work was a public 

 necessity, physicians attributing the high 

 percentage of diseases now affecting Santa 

 Clara to the contamination of the water 

 from the cemetery, as the city derived its 

 water from old wells. The larger sum was 

 approved by the Senate, one-third of the 

 sum appropriated to be included in each 

 budget for the next three years. Eighty 

 per cent, of the workmen employed must 

 be Cubans. 



An appropriation of $100,000 for a 

 bronze statue of General Maceo was like- 

 wise approved. 



distance above the floor the walls curve 

 over in an arch. This is of concrete con- 

 struction. 



Havana's 



Sewer 

 System. 



It is now over a year since 

 the first step was taken to 

 provide Havana with a first 

 class up-to-date sewer system. 

 Since then the Cuban Engi- 

 neering Company has been hard at work, 

 beginning with the laying of a pipe line 

 in the suburban districts. The largest 

 part of the work has been naturally the 

 construction of the main drains in the 

 city proper. 



The work has not been like digging 

 through dirt to lay a new line in a new 

 street, for it has been necessary to hew 

 the way through the spongy rock which 

 forms the foundation of the city in many 

 parts, says the Havana Post. The old 

 sewers were all built near the surface of 

 the street and in a most careless fashion, 

 a hollow being cut in the rock, a little 

 cement being spread over it and the ditch 

 covered with large stones and a few inches 

 of dirt. There was little or no incline 

 to these ditches and they were never 

 cleaned. Their condition consequently 

 may be imagined. The new work is laid 

 on a solid foundation about twenty feet 

 below the surface. A base of concrete is 

 laid in a horizontal frame. Above this 

 wall is built a brick floor and so far as 

 the walls are vertical they too have the 

 concrete shell and brick lining. A short 



Cuba's 

 Sanitary 

 Condition. 



Cuba's present sanitary 

 condition is good. The san- 

 itary laws framed by Colo- 

 nel Kean, of the United 

 States Army, and promul- 

 gated by the Honorable Mr. Magoon, 

 are proving every day more and more 

 successful, and are enforced with scru- 

 pulous care. This is conclusively estab- 

 lished by the disappearance of yellow 

 fever, the almost complete extinction of 

 malaria and by the gradual decrease of 

 the proportion of general mortality. 



The establishment of a grange for prc- 

 tuberculous children, situated in one of 

 the most picturesque and healthy spots 

 in the vicinity of Havana; the creation 

 of the School of Sanitary District 

 Nurses, in order that they may visit the 

 houses of the poor classes and instruct 

 them in the practical methods of combat- 

 ing tuberculosis and how to nourish 

 their children; and the improvement of 

 all the hospitals and the creation of the 

 tuberculosis ward are factors which show 

 the firm determination of President Go- 

 mez's Government to improve even more 

 our excellent sanitary conditions and to 

 secure an annual rate of mortality as low 

 as 8 or lo per thousand. — Dr. Matias 

 Duque, Secretary of Public Health and 

 Charities. 



General _ Jose Luis Robau, Member of the Con- 

 servative Party, and Governor of Santa Clara 

 Province. Died December 12th, 1909. Manuel 

 Villalon, President of the Provincial Council, 

 succeeded to the office. 



