The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-01
WHAT ITALY HAS DONE
 FOR TRIPOLI'S IMPROVEMENT
More Accomplished in Six Months of Italian Rule Than During
 Turkish Regime

New York. May When Italy, on Sept. 29, began the occupation of Tripoli, she Justified this action in a note to the European powers, by de- claring it the only way in which mod ern civilization could be carried to the people of Tripoli and the country developed both morally and materi- ally. Turkey, Italy declared, had forced Tripoli to lag far behind the surrounding countries in progress to- wards civilization
 On March 29, therefore, just six months after Italy began the forcible occupation of Tripoli, Roy w. How. ard, general news manager of the United Press Associati tions, requested just what Italy had done in that time towards redeeming it's promise to civ ilize and develop Tripoli. The follow ing statement, based on information secured expressly for the United Press by orders of Premier Gio1itti was to- day authorized for publications:
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 Rome May Previous to the oc- cupation of Tripoli by Italy, it may be justly said that Turkey had done nothing towards the development of of methods, both excessive and vio- lent, for the collection of taxes and duties. Nothing had been done to- wards the building of roads, the es- tablishing of water supply and dis tribution, the enforcing of public san- itation, or the providing of public ed- ucation, save to accept what had gen. erously been done in this latter re- spect by the various Christian mls- sionaries.
 poll, there was immediately establish ed a general administra ation of public service with the ultimate aim of irn- planting in Tripoli all of the branch es of public service and public devel- opment that exist in the mother coun- try of Italy itself Under this gen. eral government was established at once separate departments for the ad imnistration of a system of public records, of posts and telegraps, Of public engineering, of customs and duties, of health and sanitation, of lie safety, of municipal government, of schools, of agriculture, of indus- try and commerce. of charitable in- stitutions, and of the excavation and preservation of the monuments and remains of antiquity. All of these branch departments of administration are now fully established and much has been accomplished by each
 At the actual moment of Italian oc- cupation, the greatest problem that confronted the new government was that of public health and sanitation. both temporarily and permanently The country, at all times subject to infectious epidemics, was then being swept by cholera which had begun in 1910 and continued into the fall of 1911 Nothing had been provided un. der the Turkish regime with which to combat this situation save a single isolation hospital, municipal hos- pital and municipal pharmacy, all in state of deplorable sanitation themselves, and all practically worth ment.
 A Sanitary Commission was at once established by the new government and such vigorous measures taken, not only against the epidemic itself but for the establishment of permanent sanitary conditions, that the cholera was entirely stamped out in 8 very short time. Since then, adequate hos pitals with ambulance service have been constructed, chemical and bac- astrological laboratories equipped, a pure water supply insured and every precaution and preventive provided for combating and wiping out the vari- ous infectious plaques to which the l native population in the past has been subjected. pure water supply there was involved the construction of gigantic reser- 1 voir with a capacity of 1000 tons of water, a filtration plant, a steam pumping station, and the building of aqueducts from the wells of Bu-Me- | Iiana to the city of Tripoli. As fur ther safeguards of the public health, i this Commission now has under way, | the erection of an immense steam laundry plant and public wash houses for all who care to use them. |
 The work of this Sanitation Commis- | sion has gone hand in hand with that of the new municipal government | which has been established for the | city of Tripoli, and in the administra- tion of which many of the natives | have been retained. The homeless people of the city were first provided | for, thousands being removed iron. | the congested quarters of the city to the oasis where they were provided | with food, clothing and farming uten- l sils Later, many were brought back and established in homes in the dis |