48 



m'laughlin. 



Total personnel of station. 



2 medical oflScers. 

 1 sanitarj' inspector. 



4 foremen. 



58 Filipino laborers. 



5 (lisinfectors. 



Total, 70. 



Total personnel, all stafionsJ' 



Station. 



Medical 

 officers. 



Sanitary 

 inspec- 

 tors. 



Foremen. 



Laborers. 



Disin- 

 fectors. 



Total. 



"A", Meisic 



4 



2 

 2 

 2 



2 



1 

 1 



1 



14 

 8 

 6 

 9 

 •4 



136 

 86 

 112 

 117 



58 



5 



5 

 10 



ft 



161 

 103 

 126 

 140 

 70 



"C", Tondo i 



"I", Sampaloc 



".)", Intramuros 



"L",Paco 



Total 



13 



7 j 41 



509 



30 



600 



Lime squads varied in size according to the district. In open, or 

 sjjarsely settled districts, one foreman could properly supeiTise from 15 

 to 25 men. In a district like Meisic, where the houses are crowded 

 together, a foreman could not properly supervise more than 12 men. 



One mechanic was assigned to the duty of keeping the disinfection 

 wagons, pumps, and hose in good condition. He traveled from wagon 

 to M^agon with tools, thus avoiding sending the wagon in for repairs, 

 which were often trivial and could be made in a few minutes on the 

 spot. 



The amount of disinfectants employed was enormous, about 150,000 

 pounds of lime per day, and about 700 gallons of carbolic acid daily were 

 used, or its equivalent in creoline, tricresol, or formalin. There was 

 some difficulty in securing enough disinfectants to satisfy this enormous 

 demand. The entire stock of carbolic acid, formalin, and tricresol, in 

 the Philippine Islands, was used before the end of September. Four 

 thousand gallons of Jeyes' fluid (a creolin preparation) was secured 

 from Hongkong and Japan in time to prevent the wagons lying idle. 

 Four of the 11 tank wagons might have lost two days because of a 

 lack of disinfectants, but Dr. Eaymond F. Bacon, of the Bureau of 

 Science, suggested that salt water be electrolyzed, forming a disinfecting 

 fluid, which, according to laboratory tests, would kill cholera bacilli 

 promptly. The offer of the Bureau of Science to electrolyze the solution 

 was accepted, and for two days, four of the wagons used this fluid. 



In a short time all the lime in Manila and the vicinity was exhausted 

 and the entire daily output of the kilns in the Island of Luzon was taken. 



^ Tliis doesi not include police for house-to-house inspection, nor some 300 

 men of the city street cleaning force, wlio have been assisting in draining the 

 worst places in the barrios, nor the Constabularj^ for quarantine guards. 



