The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-09
we should work at far greater disad-
Absolutely Essential.

Colonel Waring suggests the follow
ing improvements as absolutely essen
tial to make Havana Il healthy city:
l. Organize Immediately a department
of public cleaning. under the full con-
troll of a single commission eXperien-
ced in the conduct of such work and
with authority to do all that the occas-
ion may require. This department, Col
onel Waring urges, should have for its
chief function, the maintaining of a
constant state of cleanliness in all
streets and public places, in all public
buildings and places of public resort
and about the public markets and abat-
toirs. 1t should also control the dis
posal of all wastes except sewerage, by
cremation and otherwise. 2. 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 different districts
into which the various slopes divide
themselves and each should discharge
directly into the gulf or into the harbor,
as the case may be. Before such dis
charge the effluent should be effectively
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 thousand 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. 3. Fill up all the private
and kitchen waste vaults and supply
every house with an adequate water
closet connected with the public sew
erage system. The closets so furnish
ed should be only what is adequate and
necessary for the purposes now served
by the vaults. Anything beyond this
to be put in by the householder under
proper supervision at his own cost
A.. Pave or repave all the streets in
the best manner with asphalt. 5. Pro-
vide completely appointed abattoir for
large and small animals, adequate for
all the needs of the population. 6. Pro-
vide suitable and sufficient incinerat-
ing furnace for the complete destruc-
ton of garbage and other refuse in
Guiding street sweeplres, also of all
dead animals. T. Reclaim all the mar
ches, at least those between the Cal
zada de Viver and Regla. about 800
acres, which will involve the care of
the drainage from about $50 acres
This reclamation to be made
after the 'Polder' method of Holland
by dyking out the harbor and the water
courses and moving the water by
pumping, for pumping sewerage where
necessary and for propelling the ma
chinery of the abattOir, say 800 horse
power in all
Will Cost $1O,OOO.OOO.
Colonel Warng states that it is not
possible. from the data now available,
to estimate the cost of all the work in
dicated above more nearly than to say
that it will not exceed ten million of
dollars. 1t has been estimated contin-
ues Colonel Waring, that single epi-
denies introduced to the United States
from Havana have cost the Mississippi
valley alone, one hundred million dol
lars in the loss to industries and COM
merce, aside from the cost of life
amounting in 1878 and 1879 to 1891.
Colonel Waring further states that in
his judgment the complete execution
of the work above indicated, would
completely eradicate yellow fever from
Havana for all time, would relieve it
from the malaria which is now so fatal,
and would reduce it's normal death rate
from it's present high figures mot far
from so per thousand) to about 20 per
thousand. He says if these improve
ments 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 complete manner. and it
must all be done before June /, 1899. If
it is not all done. there is every reason
in Havana next season, because of the
large number of unprotected persons
who would go there, trusting to the eff
ficiency of the partial carrying out of
the work. The mortality of the city of
Havana for the week ending Oct. 6, 1898,
was 535, an annual rate of 1896 per