The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-05-02
ITALY DEFENDS COURSE
IN IRlPOtI BY CITING
IMPORTANT REFORMS
Says Territory Was Seized To
Lift Country From Long
Continued Darkness
CIVILIZATION IS KEYNOTE
Premier Supplies United Press
With List of Improvements
In African Possession

ltn<n Ifaip. on september r. began he Oe'
c,sp ofion ~ 1rlpoif she Justified this aotion "a
q NOTE to me Earcpeaa porers. bD declaring Il
ne oni1 i0ag "a Ehsch modern cfVfiiEation could
b. carried "a ne people sf TripoH aud The
co4afrv Developed both pIoraHB ai,'f aieteysaitv.
The folloutnO statement bo. 1eafion
<ecslrcd expressly for TIE RhSS
buordess of Prenner Gioif, ,ahor-
r<d Tor DneficaaOn;
(copyrInhted, 1912, by the United
Press Assoeiations.)
ROME, May l.--Preyious TO the oc-
cupation OF Tripoli by Italy, It may
be Justly said that Turkey had done
nothing towards the development OF
the country save the establishment
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-
tablishment of water supply and dis
trlbution, the enforcing OF public SAM
\ tation, or the providing Of public edu-
cation. save to accept what had gen.
erously been done in this latter re-
spect by the various Christian mis-
aionaries.
with the Italian occupation of Tri:
poll, there was Immediately estab-
lished a general administration or
public service with the ultimate aim
Of implanting in Tripoh all OF Inc
branches of public service and pub
lie development that exist In the
mother country of Italy itself. Under
this general government was estaD-
\ lished at once separate depart
ments for the administration OF q
system OF public records, OF posts
and telegraphs, of public engineering.
81 customs and duties, of health and
sanitation. OF civil justice, or a pubic
pt,rt. OF industry and commerce., OF
public safety, OF municipal govern
ment OF schools. OF agriculture, or
charitable institutions, and OF the ex-
cavation and preservation OF the mon
urnents and remains of antiquity All
OF these branch departments OF al
ministration are now fully established
and much has been accomplished Dy
each. =
Az the actual moment OF Italian &C.
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 10
infectious epidemics. was then being
swept by cholera which had begun IN
1910, and continued into the fail or
1911. Nothing had been provided
under the Tuzkjsh regime with when
to combat this situation save single
isolation hospital, a municipal hos
pital. and a municipal pharmacy, all
ia a state of deplorable sanitation
themselves, and an practically worth
less from a lack OF ADEQUATE equip
ment
Cholera IL Stamped Out.
Al 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 perma-
nent sanitary conditions, that the
cholera was entirely stamped out In
very short time. Since then, ade-
ouate hospitals with ambulance SER
vice have beer constructed, chemical
and meteorological laboratories
equipped. n pure water supply In
sllred and every precaution and pre-
yentiye provided for combating and
\ wiping out the various infectious
plaques to which the native popula-
ton In the past has been subjected.
In the providing of an adequate
pure water supply, there was in
volved the construction of gigan-
tic reservoir with capacity Of 1000
tons OF water, filtration plant, a
steam pumping station, and the build
ing OF aQueducts from the wells of Blu
Meiiana to the city OF Tripoli. AS
further safeguards of the public
health, this commission now has I'M
der way the erection OF an immense
steam laundry plant and public wash