The director of public health in Cuba reports very encouragingly concerning the suppression of yellow fever. He states that the “seeds of the fever” are no longer lurking in the island, that the last case occurred in December of last year, and that with the continued watchcare which the government exercises there is very little danger of importation from other countries. Of course there are mild cases of the disease, but not among the Cuban people, the older ones of whom are practically all immune. The child in the Cuban home is protected by a screen of immune persons, so that, even when an infected insect comes into such a house, the chances of its picking out the non-immune child are small. Those who have had the disease in recent visitations were quite generally groups of men, mostly laborers and rather recent arrivals, who lived apart from the Cuban families. Modern methods in the treatment of disease, and more especially improved sanitary conditions, have worked wonders in all tropical lands where wide-awake nations have taken a positive hand to better conditions. Formerly annual epidemics of plague and fever were the rule; now many such quarters of the globe are practically free from danger.
