New-York tribune., 1920-11-28

cent, as compared with between 20 and
rsr cent In real smallnox
The American doctors discovered
"s'lessinl" amanr the sardinc-hke
caillcs (huts) of the natives. While
prcrcr mcnsGres Of isolation ware
liking place, the Trytian medical jury
CT led in perssn end wrote The Minister
Of Interior that his american advisers
90 nst know what taev were talking
about. The d seasc, they contended,
vas r"' @T1"'fr~% in nr3' form and the
Americanized Haytian Health Serv-
'se nNs % right to require strict ac-
countahility fran lIsyti&n doctors who
e lcF to rero:t all cases.
In the mean time, the American staff
went ahesd qrnrantinng and isolatins
-Ich cssas IS could be forretcd out.
10 convince the minister thnt his cour-
try faccd o smallpox epidemic serious
snoEGh to prompt radical measures
unless it became p3ndcm:c, the Ameri-
can doctors urlimheYed their kodaks
and Photographed number Of cases.
Inc prints were rushed to the minister.
I ne was conYinced that whatever it was
,o l0cked Bad, and he ordered his
American doctors to take all measures
necessary nrdcr the Hovt,an law. How
ever, as the service derives its funds
'rom the Haytian customs, and little
ut that, it is again handiceured "a
handle a we'll developed and ranidlv
spreading eridomic.
- lastrim" undoubtedly will swcen
Haytl from one end to the other. DR..
Eaton tod The Tribune, and care must
be taken lest it bloom into virulent
smallpox a little more tact on the
part of certain Americans during omr mr
five years Of occupation here won1d
have won the cooperation Of influential
Haytians rather than their antaSonism
and a smallpox epidemic-for that is
what appears likelv--would never have
had its start If efficient sanitary meas.
ures had been possible to nip it in
the bud.
Cooperation Lacking
This mutual distrust ard lack Of co.
operation serves to handicap many
constructive agencies in Hayti to-day
Example No. in the health service
here follows:
The Haytian sanitary code rightfully
prescribcs that malcfactors must be
tiled before the Justices Of the Peace
who incidentally are Hay.ians ap-
pointed by the President. Fines are
usually light. Among the owners Of
mosquito breeding scepages and Other
nuisances have been some Americans
A number Of the latter have been in
I, clned to feel that Judgment by a Hav.
: tian "Juge de paix" was TO lower caste
: and have either claimed "dlplomat'c'
immunity because Of race or entered
, into spirited de ense Of their right tc
"do anything they pleased in thi.
! blan.ety b!ank-blank mans country"
The higher caste Haytians-a Ger
tain percentage Of them-took cogni
zance, eventually, Of court records
2 wherein lies blancs" were most ofter
. tabled as discharged" and Havtian,
, fined. They wrote spirited letters o
q protest to President Dartigucnave. Tn,
a executive was convinced ann heyj,,
y been pin-prickcd himself on occasion
y by lack Of American co0rcration an,
q tAct, proceeded TO order all justsces t,
, ls, Hsstlsn defendants off end mute
= "lcs blsrcs." WAcreuron Haytan jus
+ tees did JUS. that. While America,
, sanitary officials in employ Of the Hay
p +. Was all about, the high caste HAY
tim brothers were laughing up thci
= sleeves.
8 The atntc Of aTeirs has left the Hay
, tian Sanitary Service. fgura,ivei,
, speaking. welding shovel and
broom
BrIton Freed; American Fined
Kcc"n''y three men were brou1h
r into court by 'hc service for the sam
c ofsnne. One was a IIaytian, nnothr
BHtisher Who had married EIaytia,
Z as@ tse fhiss - fn+ricar. tn,
r "Jugr de- paix" proceeded under ord ri
= 20 discharge the Haytan and the Brit
i'heS ~" latter by virtue OF his Hay
= pan cjnncctfons The American wa
hned II Qourds 1927,
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