The Provisional Government and Cuban Stability 219- "Report of D. Lombillo Clark, C. E., Acting Secretary of Public
Works," Magoon, Report, 1906-1907, pp. 361-400. - Magoon, Report, 1906-1907, p. 359. Among Black's proposed
projects, which the Provisional Government did not undertake, was to
modernize Havana's water system with meters, new reservoirs, sewers
and plumbing at an estimated cost of $1.5 million. - Ibid., pp. 239-85.
- Ibid., pp. 332-33, 353-54.
- Bullard diaries, September 22 and 26, 1908, Bullard Papers;
Greble to Wilson, August 21, 1908, Wilson Papers. Cf. Robert L. Bul
lard, "Education in Cuba," Educational Review, XXXIX (April, 1910),
378-84. In this article, Bullard called Cuba the victim of its "degreed,
diplomaed ignoramuses" and deplored the impracticality of Cuban edu
cation, which did not develop character or serve as "a weapon in the
struggles of life." He admitted that Wood's reforms had been too
radical, too democratic for Cuba. - The principal source of documentation for this section is the
letterbooks and the personal and official correspondence received by
Major Kean during his service as adviser to the Department of Sanita
tion, 1906-9, Kean Papers. - Kean to Magoon, August 10, 1908; Maj. J. R. Kean, "Memo
randum for the Provisional Governor: Organization of the Sanitary
Department," April 8, 1907, Kean Papers. - Kean to Magoon, May 29, 1908, Kean Papers. The national
tuberculosis sanitarium was in Havana, which explains the high TB
mortality rate in that city. - Maj. P. C. Fauntleroy to Kean, December 31, 1908, Kean
Papers. - Maj. J. R. Kean, "Yellow Fever in Cuba," memo submitted to
the Secretary of War, December (?), 1907, Kean Papers. - E. V- Morgan to Root, August 1-October 1, 1907, Case 1844,
Num. File, 1906-1910, Vol. CC, RG 59. The number of cases of yellow
fever in Cuba from October 1, 1906, to November 1, 1908, was 174,
including 47 fatalities. Lockmiller, Magoon in Cuba, p. 113. - Root to Magoon, January 20, 1908, File 171, CC/PGoC, RG 199.
- Kean to Magoon, November 10, 1908, Kean Papers; Magoon,
Report, 1907-1908, pp. 97-100. Magoon agreed with Kean, and the Pro
visional Government eventually spent $1.1 million on yellow fever
control and another $2.2 million on public sanitation. Within Cuba,
yellow fever cases were reported to the Provisional Government in coded
messages by the local medical officers (examples in Kean Papers). - Maj. J. R. Kean, "The Department of Sanitation," manuscript,
March 14, 1907, and "Memorandum for the Provisional Governor:
Organization of the Sanitation Department," April 8, 1907, Kean Papers. - Kean to Maj. M. W. Ireland, January 10, 1907, Kean Papers;
Decree 70, November 1, 1906, Republica de Cuba, Gaceta ojicial (No
vember-December, 1906), p. 3249. - Decree 894, August 26, 1907, Decrees, 1907.