Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-19
WINTER RESORTS.
YELLOW JACK IN CUBA
REPRESENTATIONS TO BE MADE
BY THE STATE DEPARTMENT.

The presence of yellow fever in Havana
is confirmed by the dispatches of the last
few days to the marine hospital service.
While the fact will occasion no alarm in
this country now that the frost season has
come, there is some irritation in admins
traton circles that the Cuban government
has apparently not kept its promise as to
the sanitation of Havana and other places
on the island. From the time the United
States government turned the island over
to the Cubans until a few days ago there
had not been single case of yellow fever
in the Cuban capital. When Cuba became
a republic she accepted the Plat amend
ments, an important article of which was
that the new republic would execute and
extend the plans at that time devised for
sanitation, ito the end that a recurrence
of demic and infectious diseases may be
prevented, thereby assuring protection to
the people and commerce of Cuba as we'll
to the commerce of the southern part
Of the United States and the people resid-
ing therein
Americans in Havana have been writing
for number of months to senators and
representatives declaring that Havana was
once more becoming dirty insanitary
city and that the liability to an outbreak
of yellow fever was imminent. Several of
these protests were laid before President
resulting in a protest from Minister Que
sada of Cuba and the declaration that the
health of Havana WIS as good as when
the Americans left it.
Two or three days after this statement
by the Cuban minister the first case of
yellow fever in years was detected in the
Cuban capital. That was November TO-
two cases developing at about the same
time, one being an American and the other
an Italian. One of these cases was ut the
principal foreign hotel in the city Three
days later there was another case. with
several suspects. day or two ago a
British sailor was stricken with the disease
and this was followed by a German.
Surgeon General Wyman of the marine
hospital service has wired the officials of
the marine hospital service in Havana di-
rect1ng them to require immune certificates
for all passengers leaving Havana for any
port of the United States south of the
southern boundary of Maryland.
Americans have especial cause to make
complaint against the Cubans. 1t is the
American residents of the island who are
likely to suffer most from yellow fever
there, as the Cubans are more or less i'm
mune.
The State Department will make repre-
sensations to the Cuban government as to
the reputed unsanitary conditions in Ha-
vana and other Cuban cities and suggest
compliance with the Plat amendment as
being most important to the United
States, especially to the southern states,
which have been the sufferers In the
past from yellow fever contamination i'm
ported from Cuba. President Estrada Pal
ma is declared to be doing all he can to
hold the Cubans in check and make good
the job is a hard one.
The Cuban minister, Senior Quesada, has
received a cablegram from the secretary of
state of Cuba, Senior O'Farrill, saying that
only two cases of yellow fever-have 50 far
nroyen fatal; that there are seven under
treatment and ane has been cured