The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-21
HEALTH CONDITIONS IN CUBA.
Lieut.. Col. LivermOre Talks of the
Camp Sites selected There.

Lieut.. Col. LivermOre Talks of the
Camp Sites selected There.
Lieut. Col William r. Livermore, chief
engineer officer of the Seventh Army
Corps, has just arrived In Savannah from
Havana, Cuba, having left there after the
arrival of Gen. f. V. Greene and the party
of officers who went there with him from
this city several days ago.
Col. Livermore and a party of engineer
officers with several civil engineers, went
10. Havana for the purpose Of looking into
the matter of camping sites for the troops
which are to be sent there. They inspect
ed sites around Havana, Matanzas, Ma
riel, and several other places of. import
ance in the island where United States
troops viii be stationed.
The sites for camps that were considered
most suitable are principally high or pla-
teau ground, in most instances several
miles from the cities near which the
troops are to be located. The sites Sc
lected around Havana are from four to
seven miles from the city limits. and are
for the most part places which have
scarcely any inhabitants.
Col Livermore considers that the danger
from yellow fever in Cuba has been re-
duced to a minimum now with the disap-
pearance of the rainy season, and though
the disease is still found there, the proba-
bihty of its affecting the troops is less at
this season of the year than 1t would be
at any other time.
One point the engineer officeys made, Col.
Livermore said, was to separate the brig
AIDES and divisions as much as possible,
and to give more space TO the men than
Is ,i1x AOna In, N6ytll ha
tendency 10 lessen the amount of Sick
ness among the men, and if they take care
of their camps and keep out of the cities
the amount of sickness win be reduced to
a minimum being as small no doubt as that
In ordinary camps in this country. Col
Llvernore does not think that the troops
sent over at this time need have any fears
at all on these points. The rainy season
has passed, and the excess of rain in the
last month or two of it, almost gives as
surance that there win be little or no wet
weather for some time to come.
The people of Cuba are anxious to have
the American soldiers sent there as soon
as possible, Col LlVermore said, and the
Spanish soldiers are not in the least averse
TO it. The Spanish soldiers are being sent
away from the island right along, and
there were embarkations every day or two
while Col. Livermore was there.
One of the principal reasons why the IN
habitants want the American soldiers sent
there at once is because of the lack of gov
eminent in the island, particularly in the
western end of it. One instance is told in
which a civil engineer, who went over
from this country with some American Of
hcers, was held up and robbed in the
streets of Havana i'm broad daylight and
in the middle of the day. A party of four
Havana thieves met him on the street, and
while one of them held machete at his
throat and another at the back Of his neck
the others went through his pockets and
relieved him of his watch and spare
change. During this performance some
twenty or thirty people passed, but none
of them took any notice Of 1t.
Col. Livermores report has been made
to the war department, and the data is nc
doubt being rapidly got in shape there to
arrange for sending the army to Havana
or rather that part of IL which will occupy
that section of the island.