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pulmonary tuberculosis. This also is true of the pancreas, ad- 

 renals, thymus, thyroid, pineal gland, omentum, and peritoneum. 



Only 2 cases of tuberculosis of the brain and meninges were 

 associated with pulmonary tuberculosis, all the rest being accom- 

 panied by general miliary tuberculosis. In one of these there 

 was a solitary tubercle in the middle lobe of the right lung with 

 caseous peribronchial and tracheal glands. 



Causes of death by age. First year. General miliary tuber- 

 culosis, 8 cases; pulmonary tuberculosis, 9 cases; bronchopneu- 

 monia, 1 case; beriberi, 1 case. 



Second year. General miliary tuberculosis, 11 cases; malaria 

 2 cases; cohtis (bacillary) and bronchopneumonia, 1 case; pyae- 

 mia, 1 case; status lymphaticus, 1 case; confluent bronchopneu- 

 monia, 1 case; pulmonary tuberculosis, 2 cases; and 1 of can- 

 crum oris. One case of general miliary tuberculosis died of 

 cholera, and 1 case of malaria had tuberculosis of the intestine. 



Third year. General miliary tuberculosis, 4 cases; burn, 1 

 case ; intestinal tuberculosis, 2 cases ; cholera, 3 cases ; postopera- 

 tive (otitis media), 1 case. The last one died of lobar pneumo- 

 nia and bronchiectatic abscesses of the lungs, the tuberculous 

 ulcers in the intestines having healed when the body came to 

 autopsy. One of the cases of intestinal tuberculosis had a soli- 

 tary tubercle in the cerebellum. 



Fourth year. Generalized miliary tuberculosis, 4 cases; pul- 

 monary tuberculosis, 3 cases; suppurative peritonitis, 1. 



Fifth year. Three cases, due to pulmonary tuberculosis, ab- 

 scess of the liver, and tuberculous meningitis, respectively. 



INFANTILE BERIBERI 



In 1908 infantile beriberi among Filipino infants was con- 

 firmed by autopsy, (3) and since the studies on infant mortality 

 of McLaughlin and Andrews, (33) the monograph of Guerrero 

 and Quintos, (25) and the experiments of Andrews, (4) this in- 

 fantile disease has been accepted as an entity. 



Infantile beriberi has been for many years at the head of the 

 list of the causes of infant mortality in Manila. The report of 

 the Philippine Health Service for 1915(43) shows that this disease 

 needs a more careful consideration. 



As to its etiology, the local physicians attribute it to the milk 

 of the nursing woman, who is either suffering from beriberi or 

 has it in a latent form. 



Andrews (4) thinks that the disease is not due to bacteria in 

 the milk nor to toxins, for the anatomical findings do not agree 

 with any of them, and sustains the former view (38) that milk is 



