THE CUBA REVIEW 



Cuban Government Matters 



Sale of Patent Medicines 



According to a Cuban decree of July 15, 

 1922, safeguarding the public health, the 

 following regulations are to be enforced 

 concerning pharmaceutical preparations or 

 patent medicines, whether of national or of 

 foreign origin. 



All pharmaceutical preparations or pat- 

 ent medicines — that is, preparations sealed 

 and bottled in a uniform manner and bear- 

 ing a label and printed wrapper — must show 

 plainly on the labels the name and address 

 of the producer. Before being placed on 

 sale the components to which the prepara- 

 tion owes its medicinal properties must be 

 recorded in the register in the Inspeccion 

 General de Farmacia. Only pharmacists 

 and druggists will be permitted to sell these 

 preparations, and they must report on the 

 origin of any patent medicine they have for 

 sale whenever requested to do so by the 

 Inspeccion General de Farmacia. 



The manufacturers or technical directors 

 when sohciting the registration of the 

 preparation, if it is national, or the agents 

 or representatives if it is foreign, must 

 guarantee that it is healthful, contains only 

 ingredients of good quality, and that the 

 statement made in the Inspeccion General 

 de Farmacia concerning the preparation is 

 true. 



West Indian Labor 



The President of Cuba has recently 

 signed two decrees permitting the importa- 

 tion of 6,000 laborers from the Antilles by 

 two important sugar companies to assist in 

 the work of the new crop. The importing 

 companies are required to furnish $20 bonds 

 to the Cuban Government for each laborer 

 brought into the country, which, it is es- 

 timated, will be sufficient to cover repatria- 

 tion expenses in the event that the Govern- 

 ment finds it necessary to deport any of 

 the men. The sugar companies must pay 

 the expenses of transporting the laborers 

 to the places of employment in Cuba; more- 

 over, this labor must all enter by the port 

 of Nipe. At the end of the crop season 

 the companies are required to return the 

 laborers to the countries from which they 

 were imported. 



The reason given by the President for 

 this action is the fact that during the last 

 crop season cane was left uncut in many 

 fields on account of shortage of labor. It 

 is said that this uncut remnant and new 

 sowings added to the normal crop will tend 

 to create a labor demand in excess of that 

 created by the last crop, and that there has 

 been an exodus of laborers from the island 

 since the close of the recent crop season. 



Electrical Concession 



Be decree No. 1285, dated September 11, 

 1922, the Secretary of Public Works of the 

 Cuban Government has authorized the con- 

 struction of an electric plant at Taguasco, 

 in the Province of Santa Clara. 



All details may be obtained direct from 

 the concessionaire, whose name will be fur- 

 nished to American firms interested in sub- 

 mitting offers for this work by the electrical 

 equipment division of the Bureau of For- 

 eign and Domestic Commerce, Washington, 

 D. C, or through the Bureau's district or 

 cooperative offices, by referring to Exhibit 

 No. 4419. 



Re-exportation from Bonded Warehouses 



The Cuban customs officials report that 

 the volume of undelivered merchandise re- 

 exported from bonded warehouses in 

 Habana to the various countries of origin 

 aggregated during the fiscal year ending 

 June 30, 1922, as follows: 



'Converted at New York rates of exchange current on 

 June 30, 1922. 



[The reexportations of these undelivered goods 

 were effected under the special concession 

 granted by the Cuban Government upon the 

 request of the .American representatives.] 



