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by the reason of the attempted modern improvements, represent 

 a large majority of the enterprises of the entire island. The 

 majority of the population of this coast is included in the em- 

 ployees of the above-mentioned companies, and the corporations' 

 sanitary problem, therefore, becomes the sanitary problem of 

 the east coast of the island, a fact Avhich must be recognized both 

 by Government authorities and by the officials of the company if 

 a successful sanitary administration of the affairs of these cor- 

 porations is to be expected. 



The solution of the sanitary problem of the epidemiology 

 of malaria in this peculiar environment, with labor selected from 

 among oriental people from various infected centers, appeared 

 to be so important that after due consideration and with the 

 approval of the Honorable, the Secretary of the Interior, rep- 

 resenting the Government, and the hearty and generous 

 cooperation of Senator George H. Fairchild and other officials 

 of the Mindoro Company and San Jose Estate a joint sanitary 

 commission, selected from the personnel of the College of Medi- 

 cine and Surgery, University of the Philippines; the Bureau of 

 Science; and the Bureau of Health, undertook the sanitary and 

 medical survey of this property. 



The list of the personnel of this commission has been given, 

 and the findings and recommendations will be found in the sub- 

 sequent pages of this report. 



After a brief preliminary consideration, the work of the com- 

 mission was divided as follows: 



I. Topography and geology, by Mr. F. A. Dalburg. 

 II. The external problem, a sanitary and medical survey, by Dr. W. E. 



Musgrave, chairman of the commission. 

 III. The work of the internal problem was divided into four sections as 

 follows : 



1. The internal sanitary survey, by Dr. T. W. Jackson of the 



Bureau of Health. 



2. Laboratory section, under the direction of Dr. E. L. Walker, of 



the Bureau of Science, assisted by Doctor Concepcion and Mr. 

 Guzman of the same Bureau. 



3. Clinical section, under the direction of Doctors Vazquez and 



Gutierrez, College of Medicine and Surgery, and Doctor Cox, 

 interne, Philippine General Hospital. 



4. The entomologic survey, under the direction of Mr. Banks of 



the Bureau of Science, assisted by Mr. Dalburg, of the same 

 Bureau, and the mosquito brigade of the San Jose Estate. 



It is needless to say that all these various sections of work 

 were so correlated as to make the study of individual case records 

 applicable through all sections of the work. The laboratory sec- 



