xii, B, 2 " Proceedings of the Manila Medical Society 107 



The problem from the standpoint of the Public Health Service. Dr. Hugh 



de Valin. 

 The bacteriology and serology of anterior poliomyelitis. Dr. John A. 



Johnston. 

 Discussions by Drs. N. M. Saleeby, William E. Musgrave, and J. E. Reed, jr. 

 2. It is requested that in order not to bring this subject before the public, 

 this program be withheld from the newspapers. 



C. C. HiLLMAN, 

 Captain, Medical Corps, U. S. Army, 



Chairman. 



The nominating committee for the election of two councilors 

 reported the names of Dr. N. M. Saleeby for five years and 

 Dr. B. C. Crowell for two years, and their election was voted 

 favorably by the society. 



The program for the evening was then carried out. 



H. G. Maul, 

 Secretary-Treasurer, 

 Manila Medical Society. 



SCIENTIFIC PROaRAM 



president's address 

 By Lieut. Col. F. A. Winter 



I do not believe that I could better use the brief measure of 

 your time, which is given me, than by taking the opportunity 

 to say a word to you on the subject of Manila as it appears 

 to-day to one who saw it first in 1899, just after the American 

 occupation. The contrast picture is full of interest and in- 

 struction. 



It was very rightly stated in those days that Manila was 

 a startling demonstration of civic capabilities in the matter of 

 dirt and stinks. It needed but the casual attention of any 

 seeker to get confirmation of this, and a teeming population 

 struggling for existence in a sea of mud, during the rains, 

 with the most meager provision of sanitary systems, fully com- 

 pletes the description. 



To one coming here eighteen years later, the evidence of 

 civic betterment is so striking that it brings surprise — I might 

 almost say, unbelief — that one is in the same city. I know of 

 no American city where the streets are cleaner, and I know of 

 none where there are fewer stinks. One notes the reclamation 

 of land, which in the early period was a widespread marsh, 

 and well-graded streets and effective buildings replace holes that 

 were full of mosquito foci. 



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