MEDICAL SURVEY OF THE TOWN OF TAYTAY. 



I. IXTRODUCTIOX. 



By Richard P. Stkoxg. 

 {From the Biological Lahoratorij, Bureau of Science, Manila, P. I.) 



It has been the policy of the Biological Laboratory for several years 

 past to send men to various provinces outside of Manila when opportunity 

 presented itself, for the study of disease. During the present year, it 

 was suggested by Doctor Garrison, United States ISTavy, medical zoologist 

 of the Laboratory, that a group of advanced students from the Philip- 

 pine Medical School be selected and taken by him during their vacation 

 of several months to some provincial town where a dispensary could be 

 established and a study made of the diseases affecting the inhal)itants. 

 It was the intention not only to provide the students with practical 

 traiaing in medical zoological work, l)iit at the same time to examine 

 the inha))itants of the town, particularly with reference to the parasitic 

 diseases with which they were affected. After consultation with the 

 Director of the Bureau of Science and the Chief of the Biological Labor- 

 atory, it was decided to organize a more extensive expedition for the 

 purpose of carrying on a complete medical survey of the inhabitants of 

 such a town. A short time after this, the Director of Health requested 

 assistance from the Biological Laboratory in carrying on a campaign in 

 a provincial town for the purpose of examining and treating the natives 

 for infection with intestinal worms, with the special purpose of deter- 

 mining the importance of hookworm infections in relation to the public 

 health. As the extent and the nature of hookworm infections in the 

 Islands was one of the questions which the expedition from the Bureau 

 of Science had already planned to investigate, it was agreed that tlie 

 Bureau of Health should join in the work of this survey. 



The object of the expedition as finally planned was to make a com- 

 plete study of a native town in the Philippine Islands under normal 

 conditions. The investigations were performed by members of the staff 

 of the Bureau of Science and of the Pliilippine Medical School, by three 

 of the students of the school, and l)v Doctor Clements of the Bureau of 



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