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The sinking of the Maine, which had been in Havana since February 15 ... In the American press, headlines proclaimed "Spanish Treachery!" and "Destruction of the War Ship Maine Was the Work ...

When the Spanish-American War was declared ... the chief sanitary officer in Havana, "by filth, dirt, and general unsanitary conditions." Cleanup measures helped control diseases spread by ...