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town, viz : the Ice House and Rapsey's. Now they 

 can be numbered by the score or more, in fact every 

 €i Portuguese shop," as they were then called, has be- 

 come as clean and neat as those to be found in the 

 best towns in Europe and the improvement thus be- 

 comes very marked. 



At an important meeting of the Board of Health 

 which was recently held to discuss sanitary matters 

 the following statement made by Dr. Lota forms 

 another satisfactory testimonial to the progress made 

 by Port-of -Spain in this respect since his advent to 

 the colony, forming a great contrast between the 

 Trinidad of Then and the Trinidad of Now. It is 

 copied from the Port-of -Spain Gazette of the 18th 

 July, 1912 :— 



" Dr. Lota said, that during the nineteen years 

 he had been here, while in the past he had been called 

 to as many as ten or twelve cases of typhoid fever in 

 one day, it was seldom that he saw a case now. It 

 would, therefore be seen that sanitary work had not 

 been neglected in this town. He had been to many 

 parts of the world and even through the West Indies 

 and very seldom had he seen a place so well kept in 

 sanitation as Port-of-Spain. 9 ? 



Port-of-Spain is fast becoming the best town in 

 the West Indies and if others wish to keep up with it 

 they will have to bestir themselves. What I have so 

 feebly described undoubtedly shows that the chief 

 town of Trinidad must be taken as a sure indication 

 of its prospects and prosperity. 



