29528: Leiderman: website: Haiti, 1910, view from the Church (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

Stuart Leiderman <leiderman@mindspring.com>

17 November 2006

dear Readers:

still looking around for pay scales in Haiti, 'just found a description of Haiti
in 1910, Catholic Encyclopedia: <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07114a.htm>
an excerpt here, but the whole page is a flashback...

meanwhile, <www.maisondenaissance.com> budgets $378 as one month's salary for a midwife, $100 a month for a chaplain and $350 a year for a cook;

thanks,

Stuart Leiderman
leiderman@mindspring.com

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<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07114a.htm>

HAITI  (Sp. Santo Domingo, Hispaniola.)
An island of the Greater Antilles.

I. STATISTICS

The area is 28,980 square miles; population about 1,900,000. the chief products
are coffee, sugar, cotton and tobacco.

Political

The island is divided into the Republic of Santo Domingo in the east, and the negro Republic of Haiti in the west. The latter covers 11,070 square miles with 1,579,630 inhabitants in 1909 (Church statistics). The language is a debased French (Creole); the religion, Catholic, although the natives are still widely affected with African fetichism (Voodoo or snake-worship). Education is deficient; it requires a yearly appropriation of 1,000,000 dollars. In addition to nearly 400 State free elementary schools, there are five public lycÃes.

The president is the head of the Republic (salary Â4800). The Chamber of Deputies consists of ninety-five members. The senate numbers thirty-nine members. The revenue amounted for the financial year ending 30 Sept., 1907, to $2,547,664 (U. S. gold), and 6,885,660 paper gourdes. In 1907 the foreign debt was $11,801,861; the home debt, $13,085,362. The army consists of 6828 men; there is a special "guard of the government," numbering 650 men, commanded by 10 generals. The Republic possesses a fleet of six small            vessels. The exports were valued in 1907 at $14,330,887, of which nearly $3,000,000 went to the United Statesâin 1906-07, $2,916,104, while the imports from the United States to Haiti for the same period were only $1,274,678. The capital is Port-au-Prince (population 75,000). <snip>

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