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According to a dispatch from San Antonio, Tex., under date of December 27, J. H. Bridges, president of the Uvalde Asphalt company, has received a cablegram announcing that his company has been awarded the contract for laying pavements and sewers in the city of Havana, Cuba. The contract involves $12,000,000. and it is thought will take five years to complete the work.
British experience in Suoth Africa has gone far to show that typhoid fever is not at all so much or so exclusively a water-borne disease as experts and scientists claimed it was. The epidemic of enteric fever among the troops engaged in the Boer war, it is now discovered, has been due in great measure to agencies with which the best sanitation could not cope, the germs being conveyed into food and water by the ubiquitous fly and the all-pervasive veldt dust.
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