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This fact materially reduces the relative rate among white troops from 

 disease. 



With reference to the influence of length of service of American troops 

 in the Philippines, statistics for 1906 show the highest admission and 

 noneffective rates during the first and second years of service, the lowest 

 death rate during the second and third years of service, the lowest 

 admission and noneffective rates during the third and fourth years of 

 service, and the lowest discharge rates during the fourth and fifth years 

 of service. 



Considering the physical condition of recruits, the relatively high rates 

 of admission, noneffectiveness, and deaths on account of injuries, the 

 large percentage of diseases not incurred in the line of duty and not 

 attributable to service, and the comparative immunity from certain 

 contagious, infectious, and frequently uncontrollable diseases incident to 

 residence in the United States, it does not appear that health conditions 

 in the Philippines are necessarily unfavorable to American troops serving 

 in the Philippines compared with service in the United States. 



Let us now turn to a brief review of the comparative state of the 

 general public health in the Philippines. Quoting from the first par- 

 agraph of the last annual report of the Director of Health : ''The effect 

 of the sanitary reforms which have been persistently carried out during 

 the past few years commenced to show in a most concrete and substantial 

 maimer during the period covered by this report. The public health 

 has been more satisfactory than at any time since American occupation 

 of the Philippines, from which it is reasonable to infer that health condi- 

 tions are better now than at any time for the past one hundred years or 



6 The relative prevalence of certain special diseases among white and colored 

 troops in the United States, with the admission rates per thousand for each, are 

 shown in the following- table: 



Special diseases. 



White. 



Colored. 





159. 47 

 60.23 

 49.71 

 75. 56 

 52. 20 

 23.02 

 31.93 

 7.89 

 7.05 

 6.74 

 6.14 

 4.96 

 6.00 

 2.20 

 0.71 

 .16 



150. 34 

 33.45 

 22. 17 

 44.74 

 20. 56 

 21.77 

 39.50 

 16. 53 

 9.67 

 0.40 

 3.22 

 9.27 

 0.40 

 4.43 

 4.43 

 2.42 















Hemorrhoids _ 





Dysentery. 



Tuberculosis .__ 



Typhoid lever _ 



Pneumonia 







