212 OILMAN. 



Of the 100 bodies examined, 07 were males and 33 females, 97 being 

 Filipinos and 3 Japanese. As is shown in the following table, the third 

 and fourth decades contributed the greatest number of cases, these two 

 furnishing nearly equal numbers: 



Decade. 



Male. 



Female. 



Total. 



Decade. 



Male. 



Female. 



Total. 



1 



7 



7 



U 



" 6 



7 



2 



9 | 



.) 



^ 



5- 



10 





4 





4 



3 



17 



« 



23 



8 



3 



2 





4 



15 



6 



21 



9 



1 



o 



a 



5 



8 



2 



10 



10 





1 



i 





Tuberculosis was found to be the cause of death in 35 of the cases; 

 pneumonia in 37 ; chronic cardiac disease and arterial change in 6 ; 

 nephritis in -5 ; typhoid fever, beriberi, and septicaemia each in 4 ; 

 amoebic dysentery and acute baeillary dysentery each in 3 ; acute endo- 

 carditis in 1 ; carcinoma in 2; and acute pleurisy, acute peritonitis, sple- 

 nomegaly, cerebral abscess, cerebellar haemorrhage, and acute yellow 

 atrophy each in 1 case. 



TUBERCULOSIS. 



Tuberculous lesions were found forty-five times in the series of 100 

 cases and tuberculosis was the cause of death thirty- five times; 22 of 

 these cases were males and 8 females. The autopsy on the youngest 

 person was of a child 1 year old, on the oldest, of a man of 90 years. 

 The greatest number of cases, 18, occurred between the ages of 25 and 

 35, the next greatest, 12, between the ages of 45 and 55 years. 



The disease was confined to the thorax in 21 cases, to the lungs 

 and alimentary tract in 6, to the lungs and kidneys in 2, to the peri- 

 toneum in 4, and was a generalized process in 2. Nearly an equal 

 number of the cases occurred in people who had lived in the country and 

 in those coming from the city of Manila proper, in both of which 

 situations the elevation of the land is very little above that of the sea 

 level. 



The large amount of lung tissue involved was of particular interest 

 in the cases of pulmonary tuberculosis. In six instances the greater 

 part of all the lobes of both lungs was thickly studded with lesions. 

 Complete, massive involvement of both upper lobes occurred in 7, one 

 entire lung and at least one lobe of the opposite lung were involved in 

 2, the entire upper right lobe in 3, and the left in 2 cases. The left upper 

 lobe was diseased in 26, the right upper lobe in 23 cases. 



The type of tuberculous lesion most frequently met with consisted of 

 a chronic ulcerated condition in which ragged, irregular cavities, fre- 

 quently of great size, connected with one another and with bronchi. This 



