THE PHILIPPINE 



Journal of Science 



B. Tropical Medicine 

 Vol. XIII NOVEMBER, 1918 No. 6 



ENDEMIC MALARIA IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AS A 

 MILITARY PROBLEM 1 



By Frank G. Haughwout 



(Professor of Protozoology and Chief, Department of Parasitology, College 

 of Medicine and Surgery, University of the Philippines.) 



New institutions in a developing country almost always bring 

 new problems of a troublesome and perplexing nature. The 

 degree of success that attends efforts to solve these problems 

 is in direct proportion to the foreknowledge and farsightedness 

 of those who are called upon to cope with them. With the re- 

 cruiting of large bodies of men, and their organization into a 

 military unit, problems of vital concern to those of the medical 

 and allied professions charged with safeguarding the health of 

 the military force and of the public in general are almost certain 

 to develop. Closely allied with these problems are our obliga- 

 tions, not only to our own community, but to others with whom 

 we come in contact, and we should be culpably negligent should 

 we fail to bear them well in mind and exert ourselves to 

 meet them. 



In this paper I shall deal with a single phase of one of these 

 problems only — the malaria problem — and I shall try to present 

 an outline of some of the recent work on the subject, which I 

 consider pertinent to the question. Even at the risk of being 

 termed an alarmist, I shall try to show that aside from the peril 

 of cholera, typhoid, the dysenteries, and smallpox malaria con- 

 stitutes one of the gravest medial problems, if not the gravest, 

 with which an army medical corps has to deal in connection with 

 organization work in the tropics. 



Another blood parasite that is almost equally to be dreaded 



1 Read before the Manila Medical Society, August 5, 1918. 



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