p. 16 | Hunger and Disease in Cuba

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 24, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 12.

Hunger and Disease in Cuba

If the Cubans do not soon gain their independence, there will be but few of them left to enjoy it, when it does come; and the most of those who do survive will be so reduced by hunger, disease, and poverty as to have little ambition for recuperation. The population of the island was estimated at 1,200,000—less than that of California—and reports deemed reliable say that 200,000 have died of hunger since the war began, and twice as many more are in imminent danger of sharing the same fate. These figures foot up half the population of the island.