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Title: Industrial Cuba : being a study of present commercial and industrial conditions with suggestions as to the opportunities presented in the island for American capital, enterprise and labour
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Porter, Robert P. (Robert Percival), 1852-1917
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Publisher: New York : Putnam
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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nta or Colon wards in the third district—at least theportions which immediately front the sea—have a reputationalmost as bad as the Jesus Maria ward. The foundation rockswere, during the last century, excavated to build fortifications,and these excavations were filled up with street refuse and garb-age; hence this ward is, like Jesus Maria, to some extent, re-claimed land. These portions are alleged to be very unhealthful,while houses only six or eight blocks distant are not so; com-paratively light rains flood the banquettes and run into the houses.The streets are wider and the houses better than in Jesus Maria.Some consider the location of the latter, at the bottom of theharbour, a chief cause for its unhealthfulness, but the unhealthyportion of the city now referred to fronts the sea. 11 The Pueblo Nuevo ward, still farther to the west, also frontsthe sea, and is built on a slope which attains an altitude of nearlyseventy feet. Notwithstanding these advantages, it is very badly
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Colonel Warings Sanitary Report 167 drained, and has, as it apparently deserves, an ill repute forhealthfulness. The three suburban wards, Jesus del Monte, the Cerro, andVedado, enjoy the best reputation for salubrity, and also for theirfreedom from yellow fever. Intelligent residents are readilyfound, who will assert with great assurance that no one is everattacked in these wards except those who have been elsewhereinfected. The summit of Jesus del Monte has an altitude of 67meters, or 220 feet, the highest point in Havana, or its immediatevicinity. However, there are few, if any, houses about the sum-mit; the average level of the ward is only 80 feet, and more in-habitants live below than above this level. The natural drainageis excellent, the houses in the elevated portion occupy moreground and are better ventilated than in Havana. GEOLOGICAL FORMATION 11 The surface soil of Havana consists for the most part of athin layer of red, yellow, or black earths. At varying depthsbeneath t

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