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pork or beef. Much of the fish that is eaten is dried, and a considerable 

 portion of it appears to be decomposed. 



Cotton cloth is generally used for clothing and is very inadequate, 

 especially during the rainy season, when shivering natives are a common 

 sight. 



The prevention of tuberculosis is receiving the attention of the Bureau 

 of Health, and it is planned to establish a night camp in the vicinity of 

 Manila, and a dispensary for the treatment of cases of tuberculosis is now 

 in operation. The field is large and the resources of the Islands will not 

 allow the sanitar}' authorities sufficient funds to establish such institu- 

 tions throughout the Islands. If anything is to be done in combating 

 this disease, the well-to-do inhabitants will have to establish dispensaries 

 and hospitals in the smaller' towns. To accomplish this, there should 

 be organized an association, having for its object the prevention of 

 tuberculosis by providing institutions for its treatment and by disseminat- 

 ing the knowledge of the mode of its transmission to the people of the 

 Islands. Were such an association established, it is believed that the 

 philanthropic American citizens who have ever been willing to furnish 

 funds for the establishment of missions in foreign countries would supply 

 money to assist in this campaign. 



