﻿IX, B, 2 



Sanitary Survey in Mindoro 



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A suggestive circumstance connected with my inspection was 

 the surprise expressed by the sanitary policeman, who accom- 

 panied me through the Lubang camp buildings, that persons with 

 "only a little fever" should require hospital treatment. He ex- 

 pressed the opinion that they "would all be at work to-morrow." 



The following "condensed dispensary reports" were furnished 

 at the San Jose Hospital in the morning of our return to 

 Manila. I introduce them just as transcribed from the records. 



Table I. — Condensed dispensary reports for week ending January 11, 191S. 





Febric- 

 ula. 



Con- 

 juncti- 

 vitis. 



Acute 

 coryza. 



Diar- 

 rhoea. 



Surgi- 

 cal. 



Total. 



Lubangr (camp 1) ; population. 1, 400: 



Cases 



34 

 34 



1 

 1 



6 



7 



5 

 6 



25 

 31 



71 



79 



5 



11 

 19 







Bugsanga (camp 2); population, 400: 

 Cases 



10 

 17 







1 

 2 







Days lost from work _ _ , 







Cases sent to hospital _ 







Mindoro (camp 3); population. 720: 



Cases 



37 

 39 





4 

 6 



5 



6 



16 

 23 



62 



74 



5 



Days lost from work 



Cases sent to hospital 



Kaminawit (camp 4) (port of Mangarin); popu- 

 lation, 80: 































1 . . .__ 







1 



25 



27 



5 



Irrigation canal (camp 2) ; population, 200: 



Cases 



8 

 8- 





6 

 6 



1 

 1 



10 



12 









1 i 





Grand total dispensary service: Population, 2,800; patients, 169; days 

 lost, 199. 



Signed by physician in charge. 



A striking omission from the list of diseases is that of 

 malaria. Another is the fact that 99 out of 169 cases were cases 

 of "febricula," a term practically banished from modern medical 

 nomenclature. Substitute the term "malaria" for "febricula," 

 and we have 58 per cent of all cases treated in dispensary due 

 to malaria. The days lost from this cause, although averaging 

 but one day per case, amount to 50 per cent of the total. 



Concerning the so-called dispensary service, it seems to con- 

 sist chiefly of a practicante who visits cases at their houses 



