THE CUBA RE V I E TV 



This new bureau will have at its disposal 

 the services of the Cuban consular and 

 diplomatic officers, as well as commercial 

 attaches, to whom instructions and in- 

 quiries will be sent through and in con- 

 currence with the Cuban Department of 

 State. These field officers will act as in- 

 termediaries between business houses 

 abroad and the newly established bureau. 

 In Cuba the bureau will deal directly with 

 the public and with national economic or- 

 ganizations and chambers of commerce. 

 The decree authorizes the bureau to make 

 requests for information and assistance di- 

 rectly to the various bureaus of the Cuban 

 Government, and fixes the obligations of 

 the latter to lend their cooperation. It 

 also establishes similar relations between 

 the bureau and the respective provincial 

 governments and municipalities. 



The bureau will act as a repository for 

 economic and commercial information re- 

 lating to Cuba and foreign countries of 

 interest to Cubans. One of its specific 

 functions is to have general charge over 

 commercial and similar expositions in Cuba 

 and to designate, with the approval of the 

 Department of State, Cuban official repre- 

 sentatives to expositions held overseas. — 

 Acting Commercial Attache Paid L. Ed- 

 wards, Habana. 



Revenues Show Increase 



At a recent session of the Cabinet the 

 pleasing information was given by the 

 Secretary of the Treasury that during 

 the month of April more than 89,000,000 

 in revenue was collected by the govern- 

 ment. This would seem to show that 

 Cuba's finances are rapidly assuming a 

 state that should make possible the pay- 

 ment of all debit balances remaining after 

 applying the 850,000,000 loan. 



The fact that money is coming in freely 

 is also influencing Congress to look favor- 

 ably upon requests for the restoration of 

 government salaries to the figures in ef- 

 fect before the reductions forced by the 

 financial crisis. A resolution providing 

 for the application of surplus funds in the 

 Treasury to this purpose was adopted by 

 the Senate last Monday. The Senate also 

 passed a resolution providing for the com- 

 pletion of the new Capitol and granting 

 a credit of 83,500,000 for this work, to be 



distributed at the rate of 8700,000 an 

 nually through the next five budgets. 



Havana bank clearings for the^ wee 

 ending June 6 show an increase of busi- 

 ness activity, amounting to 819,419.871. 

 against 815.985.913 for the preceding 

 week. 



Demographic Statistics and Hygiene 



President Zaya"s message to Congress, 

 dated April 2, stated: 



In 1922, 2.754 marriages were registered ir 

 the municipality of Habana. or a proportion oi 

 7.24 per cent, and 12,251 births, or 32.19 pei 

 cent. Although the birth registration for 1921 

 was only 7,275, the gain is not so great as it 

 appears, since in 1922 an extension of time was 

 granted for registering previous births. 



In 1922, 778 infants were stillborn or diec 

 ^\'ithin 24 hours after birth. 17 less than in 1921 

 Total deaths in 1922 were 7,593, an annual raU 

 of 19.91 per thousand. 



The child-welfare stations in Camaguey anc 

 Santiago are being reorganized, and it is hopec 

 that they will soon be as efficient as thos( 

 established in Habana. Pinar del Rio, Matanzas 

 Cardenas, Santa Clara, and Cienfuegos. Th< 

 basic principle of this reorganization is to pro 

 vide the child-welfare stations with a dietetic 

 laboratory, where modified feedings are pre 

 pared for the children registered at the dis 

 pensaries. 



Public health propaganda has increased, in 

 struction being given by means of films anc 

 stereopticon views on the care of mother anc 

 child and other subjects relating to publi< 

 health, which are shown at the different moving 

 picture theatres, and by mail. For the latte 

 two sets of letters are used, the first containing 

 prenatal advice and the second the rules o 

 hygiene which every mother should follow ii 

 order to insure the health of her child until it i: 

 a year old. These letters are mailed to al 

 prenatal or postnatal cases known to the child 

 welfare stations, or upon request. Xotwith 

 standing the reduction in the appropriatioi 

 made for the staff and material, the attendanci 

 at the child-welfare stations has considerabb 

 increased during the present year, particularb 

 in the dispensary which was established in thi 

 building of the National Health Department 

 where more than 1,000 women and children havt 

 registered and more than 500 health propagandi 

 letters are mailed monthly. 



The school dental prophylaxis ser%dce, openec 

 last January', has been conducted with grea 

 regularity. Heretofore efforts in this directioi 

 had not proved very successful, due to th( 

 poorer people being unable to afford the neces 

 sary treatment to carry out the medical in 

 spectors' instructions to their children. A 

 present these inspectors are visiting the publit 

 and private schools and reporting the childrei 

 needing dental treatment, who are then sen 

 to the dental clinic established in the Publii 

 Health Department, where the excellent servio 

 is free of charge. 



