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Fort William McKinley, near Manila, where a similar number 

 of persons are cared for under vastly more favorable conditions, 

 provided with a medical staff of one American doctor and one 

 Filipino assistant, aided by one native trained nurse. While the 

 needs of Fort William McKinley, with its staff of ten or more 

 surgeons, are not to be fairly compared with those of the San 

 Jose Estate, death rates and sick rates for a similar population 

 (numerically) are bound to be compared. The right to live and 

 to receive proper care in time of sickness is a common one, and 

 is an obligation equally binding upon governments and business 

 corporations. 



4. Lax:k of confidence, on the part of the medical staff, in its 

 ability to cure malaria. — With regard to the curability of malaria, 

 I can only express my regret that such a lack of confidence 

 exists. I have become too thoroughly convinced by experience in 

 hundreds of cases of malaria of all kinds, studied clinically and 

 microscopically for a long period of time, that malaria is a 

 perfectly curable disease — although not always an easily curable 

 one — to have this confidence shaken by the present apparent 

 failures, especially in the light of the conditions of treatment 

 existing at San Jose. 



5. THE MOSQUITO SURVEY IN AND NEAR SAN JOSE 

 By Charles S. Banks 



The region comprised in this brief survey is, like many others, 

 namely, Manila, Iloilo, Olongapo, Subig, and Cavite, ideal with 

 respect to the conditions under which the malaria mosquito can 

 breed. The coast being nearly flat, tidal swamps and esteros 

 cut far inland and thereby create an enormous area of semi- 

 stagnant salt marsh, in which, unaffected by sudden and com- 

 plete tidal washings, algae abound and mosquito larvae find ample 

 breeding and feeding grounds. 



By reference to the accompanying map, it will be seen that all 

 the localities mentioned lie near or on the zone of tidal swamps 

 and the people are therefore placed under conditions which are 

 perfect from the standpoint of exposure to mosquito attacks. 

 It is likewise highly probable that those who were born or have 

 lived for long periods of time in these localities have become 

 permanent malaria carriers; and it is as a result only of the 

 recent attempts to import laborers from other more or less 

 malaria-free regions and the consequent infection of nonim- 

 munes with acute symptoms that attention has been again 

 strongly directed to this locality as a malarial region. 



