The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-23

personally investigate the existing san
itary conditions In the Cuban and Porto
Rican cities and report upon them with
a statement Of the means which should
he adopted to put these places In a
clean and comparatively heaithful
tate. Acting upon the Information
thu obtained the war department
will enforce In the cities garrisoned by
our soldiers a system OF sanitation as
scientific and thorough as Is employed
in any tropical community In the world
IL Is a campaign against
and the diseases that spring from a
malarious soil. from city filth and vege-
table and animal decay, waged In their
very stronghold. with every lesson OF
experience. with every appliance OF
science, with every necessary material
resource to further its success.
Ther Is an augury Of victory In the
selection Of the man whose investiga-
tion and report will determine the plan
and scope of the new campaign Col
onel George +. Waring . won q mer-
tied high fame in city and state and
nation as the commissioner who. In the
three years. 1s5s-6-7. kept the streets
Of New York clean, and established In
that city a system of municipal street
cleaning which lifted this service clear
from the financial and political corrup-
ton and inefficiency that so long .
hampered its workings. to the level Of
the best methods In the great European
cities. To this pleasant task he brings the
fruits OF lifelong study and practice
OF sanitary engineering. He Is the au-
thor OF several standard books pon
this and kindred subjects. and his mas
terly engineering and construction OF
municipal sewerage systems are dis
played in a score OF important cities
throughout the United States. oEdens-
burg. Saratoga Springs. Buffalo. N. T.
Memphis. Tenn. Pueblo. Col. San d.
ego. Cal. Ell Paso. Tex. Pensacola.
Jacksonville and Tampa. Fla, are
among the cities in which he has es-
tablished systems of sewerage. each es-
p~ecially adapted to the conditions and
needs of the locality In which II Ia laid
OF the sanitary needs of military sta
lions he has the personal knowledge
gained by four years OF arduous SER
vice as a cavalry officer during the
civil war. His connection with the
health campaign In which he Is now
making the preliminary move. In .
guarantee Of complete. well considered
and practical plans for the sanitation
of the cities in Porto Rico to which our
troops shall be assigned.
In its rood results this movement OF
sanitary reform will extend far beyond
the localities Immediately affected The
intimacy of intercourse that inevitably
must exist hereafter between our At
antic and gulf cities and the two
West India islands released by Spain.
would increase greatly the danger OF
trapsference Of infectious and epidemic
diseases to the northern mainland II
the matter Of sanitation In the tropical
ports were to be neglected II In for
defense from disease In our home cities
as well as those of Cuba and Porto
Rico that this campaign Ii to be waged.
To stamp out epidemic n Infectious
diseases in their breeding places and
strongholds in the West Indies y tbs
one sure safeguard OF immunity from
their presence in our atlantic seaboard
cities CLARENCE PULLES-