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Title: The Cuba review
Identifier: cubarevie10muns (find matches)
Year: 1907-1931. (1900s)
Authors: Munson Steamship Line
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Publisher: New York : Munson Steamship Line
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
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THE CUBA REVIEW 15
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Alfonso XIII sunk off Mariel, Havana Province, during the Spanish-American War. The removal of the wreck, is now being urged. El vapor Alfonso XIII echada a pique frente a Mariel, eti la provincia de la Habana, durante la guerra con los Estados Unidos. Se trata ahora de sacar el buqite. AN OLD WRECK The Sanitary Department has requested the Treasury Department to destroy the wreck of the old ship "Alfonso XIII.," which is in the Mariel Bay. In its present position the wreck is considered an obstruc- tion to the harbor. The "Alfonso XIII." has been lying at the mouth of Mariel Bay since the Spanish- American war. The steamer was a mer- chantman bound from Spain to Havana and was trying to make this discovered by the American squadron and sunk. port, when blockading PORTO RICO S CITRUS FRUITS The value of Porto Rico's exportations of citrus fruits to the United States, during the years ending June 30, 1911 and 1912, compare as follows : 1911 1912 Grape fruit $309,698 $524,976 Oranges 703,946 584,368 Pineapples 640,713 683,801 Lemons 2,323 3,131 Limes 1,962 960 Canned pineapples .... 149,744 258,671 Porto Rico also sent considerable honey to the United States in this same period as witness the following: 1910 1911 1912 $8,018 $17,904 $42,251 PRAISE CUBA S SANITARY CONDITIONS Officers of the Medical Corps of the United States army sympathize with Dr. Juan Guiteras, director of sanitation of Cuba, in his protest against a resolution introduced in the House by Representative Foss of Illinois asking for an investigation of the sanitary conditions of Cuba. "In the matter of sanitary legislation," said Col. J. R. Kean of the ^Medical Corps, "Cuba is fifty years ahead of the United States. Her chief sanitary officer has a seat in the Cabinet and all the health of- ficers of Cuba are federal appointees, freed from the local influences which operate against the activities of health officers in the cities of the United States. "The standard of sanitation set for Cuba by the United States army was a military standard, much higher than that lived up to by American cities. Cuba is in much better condition in sanitary matters than Porto Rico." The National Board of Health of Mexico has sent a letter of congratulation to Dr. Guiteras "for the energetic and well con- ducted campaign carried on in Cuba against the plague and the success you have ob- tained." The letter says further that Cuba is the first country on earth which has been able to control an epidemic in so short a time. Mexico was the first country to remove the quarantine established against Cuba.

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