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Show DEATHS AT HAVANA. Filthy Conditions the Cause of an Appalling liea ' h Hate. New Yoi:k, Dee. 5. Surgeon General Wyman of the marine hospital service ser-vice has received a report from Dr. W. F. Brunner, the United States sanitary inspector at Itayana, covering the week ending Nov. 24, which shows little or no improvement in the health conditions of that city, in spite of the efforts now being made to prepare it for the American army of occupation. In the week there were 440 deaths, giving an annual death rate of 114.40 per thousand, most of them being due to the filthy condition of the city and the lack of good food. Yellow fever, entericis fever, malarial fever and pernicious per-nicious fever are credited with causing caus-ing respectively four, thirty-two, sixty-four sixty-four and nine deaths; sixty-nine are attributed to enterieis, twenty-six to dysentery, one to starvation, nine to pneumonia and fifty-five to tuberculosis. tubercu-losis. Of the four cases of yellow fever, two were among the Spahish troops in military hospitals, and the others among civilians. Dr. Drunner thinks there are less than sixty cases in the city. " |