817.48 Earthquake of 1931/85: Telegram
The Minister in Nicaragua (Hanna) to the Secretary of State
[Received April 6, 1931—5:19 p.m.]
Supplementing my [April] 5th, 2 p.m. Sanitation of Managua is under control of a committee composed of two Nicaraguan doctors and the medical director of the Guardia Nacional, Commander Gordon Hale, Medical Corps, United States Navy. They have divided the city into four districts each under one or more Nicaraguan doctors. Red Cross units from the other Central American countries are giving the committee active aid. All persons are being inoculated against typhoid. General health conditions remain good. All hospital patients are under tentage on La Loma Field. No serious illness here among Americans. More than 650 dead have been buried to date. The work of recovering the dead continues but it is probable that hundreds will never be recovered.