108 eases s * nce * came here and to-day Dr McKenzie, the mayor, 

 presented the matter to the town council which agreed to 

 pass and enforce any laws we saw fit to present. So we are 

 going to make compulsory the notification of all sore throats, 

 from each of which a culture must be submitted. All the 

 work, free of charge! We are also going to make the noti- 

 fication of typhoid, pneumonia and tuberculosis compulsory 

 and we hope to put the method of disinfection on a satis- 

 factory basis. We shall keep all diphtheria convalescents in 

 quarantine until their throats are free of bacilli. We will get 

 the laws passed and then see if we can make the physicians 

 cooperate. We also have a scheme in mind to furnish antitoxine 

 free to those who really can't afford to pay. 



AS Wherry watched in his laboratory, the articles writ- 

 ten by him in Manila had one by one come to view in 

 the United States. The manuscript for the last [14] had been 

 delivered into Hektoen's hands at the end of his waiting period 

 in Chicago. Now this was printed. It had to do with the cause 

 of a contagious blister disease he had encountered in the Philip- 

 pines. This pemphigus he ascribed to a microorganism newly 

 discovered by him and dubbed the Micrococcus pempbigi 

 contagiosa. He had isolated it from five cases, reproducing 

 with it, the disease. "The kidney shaped diplococci" were 

 not to "be confounded" with the ordinary staphylococci, he 

 warned. 



He had written Marie that this paper was to be the product 

 of his and Woolley's labors. But Woolley had not been con- 

 cerned in it. It appeared instead with Moses T Clegg as co- 

 author. This future assistant director of the U S leprosy inves- 

 tigation station in Hawaii was then twenty-nine. He had been 

 a graduate, almost, out of the University of Arkansas when 

 he entered the medical division of the U S army to serve 

 through the Philippine insurrection; whereafter he had been 

 nominated the assistant bacteriologist in the Manila labora- 

 tory. Six months ago Wherry had written Clegg that he in- 

 tended to use his name. Clegg responded (December 19, 

 1905): 



