The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-04
HAVANA AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE
FOR ALL CITIES

$40 IEANLINESS must be more and more the gospel Of
A Municipalities 1t embraces many SUBJECTS 1t means
Va among other things streets properly paved and grad
%~ ed: if means the best systems of collecting and dis
sin If sewage it means abundant supply OF water and
roner regulations pertaining to buildings and their sanitary aP
ances and the enforcement OF sensible rules among e
eone More and more when public works are to be under
taken the question will be asked as to any particular se
structure whether is that which Will be the eaS ke 70 co'
and harbor dirt and will yield el most readily to cleansing pro
cees The lack of proper avements sewers and other pubic
improvements need however, discourage efforts toward clean
iness. 1r - t 500 -
the most notable examples the world OF what changes proper
sanitary regulations will bring about lhouSh he improve
r1ents that have taken place havana have been frequently ed
thew are nevertheless worthy repetition They the more
remarkable when it mind that Havana still without
system of sewers that the streets not as rule paved
with asphalt This fact has made 1t more dllcu TO Dfn8 ABOUT
the results that have been attain ed
h he report of vital statistics that month"; death rate OF
"a per thousand yellow fever there were but two
deaths while in 1906 there 90 deaths from yellow fever III
the month corresponding From April first to October hrs this
year but five deaths from yellow lever whereas ne
corresponding period of 1897 there $50 deaths There had
been for many years average death rate OF 200 Tor ne
same months The fatalities from tuberculosis have been gre
reduced as well as those maaral fever And apart from
deaths caused these diseases there has been decided re-
don in the death rate In September there but
Deaths from typhoid fever and three from dphtheria and for
entire wear there had been any small e report issued
by Major Gorgas chief sanitary officer says:
"he streets have been kept in excellent condition by the
enoneer department. know of no city where they cleaner
nor where the garbage collected It exceedingly
in Havana unemped garbage the street after
daylight"
Speaking yellow fever Major Goga says that no such
satisfactory condition that of the present time has existed
there in the last hundred and fifty years.
There been persistent attacks upon mosquitoes which,
commonly accepted Havana the sole causes OF the
read Of the disease The Health Department made house
to house inspections and compelled the people to keep their
premises proper condition Give Havana proper pavement and
sewers and let the present sanitary regulations prevail and it
probably would become one OF the most heahfu cities OF It's
size in the world.
What been accomplished at Havana should be lesson
TO every American city Most northern cities have little
against compar ed with Havana yet for year
or two they the breeding places of smallpox There
little doubt that this loasome disease would have gained
hold had not health authorities and there relaxed their
vigilance it merely smallpox and similar diseases
that considered but rather the general effect OF clean
Illness upon health of the muny It pays infinitely well
Tor city to keep clean