﻿186 The Philippine Journal of Science 1914 



The incidence of tuberculosis is about 30 per cent; hookworm 

 infection from 45 to 50 per cent; clinical anaemia about 90 per 

 cent; with a large share of other less important diseases and 

 conditions. 



Most important of all, the physiological efficiency of the em- 

 ployees and the inhabitants of San Jose may be comparatively 

 estimated at 50 per cent, using as a basis for this calculation 

 the normal efficiency of the average healthy Filipino, 



The social and economic conditions of the inhabitants of San 

 Jose are not as satisfactory as they should be. The opinion is 

 advanced that the barrack system of housing employees and 

 their families is a mistake in the tropics among tropical races, 

 and it undoubtedly is a mistake in the absence of careful and 

 exacting police and sanitary protection. The construction of 

 these barracks is of a fairly satisfactory character, but under 

 present conditions they are dirty, badly kept, and overcrowded, 

 and show a complete absence of any attempt in the establishment 

 of home life among the inhabitants. 



The management of the kitchens and mess halls is not con- 

 sistent with elementary sanitary requirements. For example, 

 one kitchen within 60 meters of the hospital contains myriads 

 of flies ; it is dirty ; and it is used as a storeroom for food and for 

 the soiled clothing of the cooks and assistants and as a bath- 

 room by muchachos and children. Conditions in the mess hall 

 proper are but very little better. 



The caloric value of the foodstuffs eaten by the majority of 

 the employees, whether in the mess halls or in their own houses, 

 is far below the minimum physiological requirement consistent 

 with manual labor. This condition, as is well known, is general 

 among the lower classes of Filipinos, It is one of the as yet 

 unsolved problems of this country. 



The medical department, as a whole, is doing splendid work, 

 particularly in its mosquito-suppression work. However, with 

 the enormous amount of malarial infection now prevalent in the 

 camp, the methods of work now in use will not begin to meet 

 the situation during the rainy season with the consequent in- 

 crease in the number of mosquitoes. The entomologic survey 

 shows that the inhabited portion of the properties is very well 

 policed regarding mosquitoes, but on all sides just without this 

 zone are innumerable breeding places filled with anopheline 

 mosquitoes. With the advent of the- rainy season, it will be 

 impossible to maintain the present mosquito-free zone without 

 the expenditure of an unreasonable sum of money. 



