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been issued by the Bureau of Health, was written by Mr. Seale of the 

 section of ichthyology of the Bureau of Science. 



The diagnostic work connected with the examinations for communicable 

 diseases referred to on page 11 of the report of the Director of Health 

 in the regulation of dance halls is carried on by the Bureau of Science. 

 During the last fiscal year we examined 20,522 samples for gonococci. 



The Manila milk supply is referred to on page 14." All of the native 

 as well as imported milks are inspected and analyzed in the Bureau of 

 Science, and a comprehensive investigation of the milk of the carabao by 

 Mr. Dovey, of the chemical laboratory of the Bureau of Science, has been 

 published. A tabulation of the composition of cows' milk imported into 

 the Philippine Islands, sterilized milk, condensed milk, fat-free condensed 

 milk, and other forms of milk by Mr. Agcaoili, of the Bureau of Science, 

 has been published. 



On pages 16, 35, 65, etc., the food and drug inspection is mentioned. 

 The Food and Drugs Board of the Philippine Islands is a body appointed 

 by the Governor-General, and consists of the Assistant Director of Health, 

 the chief of the division of organic chemistry of the Bureau of Science, 

 the chief appraiser of the port of the Bureau of Customs, and the chief 

 city agent of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. This board is advisory 

 to the Director of Health. All the work accomplished by this Board, whether 

 prosecutions or the issuing of decisions relative to food and drugs found 

 upon the market or imported into the Philippine Islands, originates in 

 the Bureau of Science where all analytical work necessary for the enforce- 

 ment of the Food and Drugs Act and for the examination of food and drink 

 for sale in Manila is carried on. 



On page 24 is mentioned the Maritime Quarantine which inspects im- 

 migrants for hookworm, intestinal parasites, amoebic dysentery, and even 

 balantidic dysentery, cholera, etc. All of these diagnostic examinations 

 are made by the Bureau of Science. During the last fiscal year we examined 

 34,530 samples of faeces in connection with this work, and for the period 

 covered by this report the number has exceeded 24,000. 



On page 25 the experimental work of the sterilization of water by the 

 ultra-violet rays is mentioned. The idea originated in the Bureau of 

 Science, the apparatus is now being installed in the Bureau of Science, and 

 the work will be carried on and the apparatus operated by the Bureau of 

 Science employees. 



The character of the milk importation mentioned on page 26 is greatly 

 Improved, owing to the inspection carried on in the division of organic 

 chemistry of the Bureau of Science which does the food and drug analyses. 



Mosquito work mentioned on page 27 originated in the Bureau of Science, 

 and this Bureau supplied the information necessary for the inspectors in 

 carrying out the routine work. 



Mineral waters of the Philippine Islands are mentioned on page 31 as 

 follows : 



The last Legislature by Act No. 2264, made available the sum of ?=15,000 

 for the purpose of studying the mineral waters of the Philippine Islands 

 and at this writing the work is under way. Samples of water have 

 already been secured and analyzed from all small springs known to the 

 Bureau, and records and descriptions, real or alleged, of the properties of 

 the waters are now being collected. 



All of the.se analyses were made by the chemists of the Bureau of Science. 



On page 43 the fly menace is mentioned. Whenever an epidemic of 



