92 The Philippine Journal of Science 1915 
The chairman of the committee on arrangements of the 
Manila Medical Society moved the following for that com- 
mittee: 
The committee on arrangements for the tenth annual session of the 
Philippine Islands Medical Association recommends that a vote of sincere 
appreciation of the association be taken and forwarded to the Manila Electric 
Railroad and Light Company, through Dr. H. D. Kneedler, for its courtesy to 
the association in furnishing a special car from the association headquarters 
to Fort William McKinley and return on the morning of November 7, 1914. 
The above motion was seconded and carried. 
It was moved and seconded that the following resolution be 
adopted: 
That the thanks of the association are hereby extended to the three 
American daily papers of Manila for the space they have generously given 
in their columns to the announcements and program of the association. 
This resolution was adopted. 
The three following resolutions were read for the committee 
on public policy and legislation, and these were recommended 
by the committee for adoption: 
Resolved, That in the opinion of the Philippine Islands Medical Associa- 
tion, sufiicient evidence has been produced to show that extracts of rice 
polishing, or tiqui-tiqui, are of undoubted value in the curing of infantile 
beriberi and of the majority of acute affections of beriberi in adults; 
That the association, therefore, strongly recommends the preparation of 
these extracts on a large scale by the Government of the Philippine Islands 
and the free distribution in a way to facilitate their acquirement by the 
public, especially for the poorer classes of the inhabitants of these Islands; 
That the commercial manufacture of these extracts be so guarded, con- 
trolled, or licensed as to insure their potency, purity, and safety. 
Resolved, That the Philippine Islands Medical Association indorses the 
estimates for appropriation of funds from the Insular Treasury for antitu- 
berculous work by the Bureau of Health; 
That it further recommends that the aid of the Government be extended 
to continue the present activities of the Philippine Islands Antituberculosis 
Society; 
That the association believes that every effort should be made for the 
further extension of antituberculosis work as much as possible. 
Resolved, That in the opinion of the Philippine Islands Medical Associa- 
tion sufficient evidence has been produced to show that beriberi occurs fre- 
quently in the Philippine Islands in women in the puerperal and nursing life, 
and through them in their infants, and that this condition is the chief cause 
of excessive mortality among infants in these Islands; 
That, accordingly, special hospital facilities, under the control of the Bu-. 
reau of Health, should be established to provide the necessary hospital treat- 
ment for this class of patients, and for the further study of the disease and 
its treatment; 
