The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-09
under the impulse of panic, we should
work at far greater disadvantage"
The improvements Suggested.

The improvements Suggested.
Col Wai@ng suggests the following i'm
proVements as absolutely essential to make
havana healthy city: First organize
Immediately department of public clean
ing under the full control of a single com
missioner experienced in the conduct Of
sLch work, and with authority to do all
that the occasion may require. This de-
partment, Col Waring urges should have
Tor its chief function, the maintaining Of
constant state of cleanliness in all
streets and public places; in all public
buildings and places of public resort,
ana IN all, about the public markets and
apattoirs. II should also control the dis
posal OF all wastes except sewerage, by
cremation and otherwise
Second-Construct a system of sewers TO
receive the liquid wastes of all houses of
the main city as far as Belascoain. These
sewers should serve separately the differ
ent districts into which the various slopes
divide themselves, and each should dis
charge directly into the Gulf, or into the
harbor as the case may be. Before such
discharge the afiiuent should be effective
ly clarified by one of the various well
known methods, so that it would carry
only its dissolved impurities. The amount
of sea water flowing into and out of the
harbor at each tide is about three thou
sand times that of a days discharge of
the clarified sewerage of the harbor slope
of the city, so that the dilution will be
immediate and more than complete.
Fill Up All the Vaults.
Third-Fill up all the private and kitch-
en- waste vaults and supply every house
with an adequate water closet connected
with the public sewerage system. The
closets to be furnished should be only
W would ha
for the purpose now served by the vaults;
anything beyond this to be put in by the
householder under proper supervision at
his own cost.
Fourth-Pave or repave all the streets
in TIE best manner with asphalt.
Fifth-Provide a completely appointed
abattoir for large and small animals, ade-
quate for all the needs of the population.
Sixth-Provide a suitable and sufficient
incinerating furnace for the complete and
inoffensive destruction of garbage and
other refuse including street sweepings.
also of all dead animals including horses
and oxen.
Seventh-Reclaim all the marshes, at
least those between the Calzada de Viver
and Rcgla, about 500 acres. which will in
volve the care of the drainage from about
$50 acres. This reclamation to be made
after the ''Polder" method of Holland
by olking out the HdIpOi anu
the water courses and moving
the water by pumping.
Eighth-Establish an electric power
plant sufficient for this pumping, for
pumping sewerage where necessary, and
for propelling the machinery of the abat-
toir, say three hundred horse power in all
The Estimate of Cost.
Col Waring states that it Is not posi-
Bile from the data now available to esti-
mate the cost of all the work indicated
above more nearly than to say that it
viii not exceed $100O0OOO.
II has been estimated. continues Col
Waring. that single epidemics introduced
into the United States from Havana, have
cost in the Mississippi valley alone, $780,
100000 in loss to industries and to COM
merce, aside from the loss of life, amount
ing in 1878 and 1879 to 1891, in addition 10
the enormous cost of the sickness to those
who recovered.
Col Wanng further states that in his
Judgment the complete execution of he
work above indicated would completely
eradicate yellow fever from Havana for
al time would relieve it from the ma
laria which is now so fatal, and would
reduce its normal death rate from its pres
ent high figure mot for from 50 per thous-
ard) TO about 20 per thousand.
Must BE No Delay.
He saws if these improvements are to
be made there must be no delay and no
halfway measures. All that is indicated
must be done in the best and most COM
plete manner and it must all be done be-
fore June l. 1899. If it is not all done,
there is every reason to fear that yellow
fever win be rife in Havana next season,
because of the large number of unprotect-
ed persons who would go there. trusting
t. the efficiency of the partial carrying out
Of the work
The mortality of the city of Havana for
the week ending Oct. s. 1898, was $50, a
rate of 1896 per thousand.