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Title: The Cuba review
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Munson Steamship Line
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Publisher: New York : Munson Steamship Line
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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ractical sanitationbefore much improvement can be secured. Throughout the island, according to Dr. Guiteras, 49 per cent of the houses possess nokind of indoor or outdoor toilet convenience, 42 per cent were equipped with cesspools and5 per cent were properly furnished. During the last fifteen years the most laudable effortsof the Cuban sanitary department has been devoted to bettering these conditions. Havana Vital Statistics gives us an idea of the importance of pure water without takinginto consideration the average of 1894-1898, which was an abnormal period (21.01), theannual average coefficient of typhoid fever was 10.24 in the previous five years and 5.78for the year 1899, when the census was taken and Spanish dominion ceased. From that time cisterns have been suppressed, the black wells have been closed and theprovision of water from the Vento Springs was extended to the suburbs of Havana, resultingin a decrease as follows: 1899 5.78 1899-1903 5.80 1904-1908 2.58 1904-1913 2.37
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Primitive water distribution in Cuba. Getting a supply at the river, which later will be sold in the nearby Villages. THE CUBA REVIEW 23 TRAFFIC RECEIPTS OF CUBAN RAILROADS EARNINGS OF THE CUBA RAILROAD. THE HAVANA ELECTRIC. ETC. EARNINGS OF THE CUBA RAILROAD The earnings of the Cuba Raih-oad for the month of November and for the five monthsended November 30th compare as follows: 1914 1913 1912 1911 1910 1909 November gross $285,225 $342,357 $278,968 $251,023 202,934 $166,448 Expenses 166,577 195,210 191,188 156,538 126,900 110,959 November net $118,648 $147,146 $87,780 $94,484 $76,034 $55,448 Fixed charges 70,195 66,791 66,791 60,125 36,666 36,666 November surplus $48,452 $80,355 $20,988 $34,359 $39,368 $18,821 From Julv 1st—• Five months gross $1,603,080 $1,715,231 $1,536,542 $1,288,980 $1,024,817 $807,682 Five monthsnet 650,390 742,944 611,085 546,359 422,489 252,083 Fixed charges 351,158 333,958 333,680 300,625 183,333 178,543 Five months surplus $299,232 $408,986 $277,404 $24

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