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20. Please itemize your present monthly sanitary expenses under the 

 following headings with such additions as you deem advisable: (a) Salaries 

 and wages; (6) equipment and supplies; (c) construction; (d) medicine, 

 dressing, etc.; (e) subsistence; (/) miscellaneous. 



In this connection, I should like to have a list of your personnel connected 

 with the sanitary department, with salaries and wages of all employees 

 except those of unskilled labor. 



Mindoro Company: The sanitary and hospital work is at present per- 

 formed by the San Jose Estate force. 



San Jose Estate: (a) Salaries and wages about 3,500 pesos. (6) Equip- 

 ment and supplies about 150 pesos, (c) Construction referred to the 

 Mindoro Company under whose auspices this work is carried on. (d) Med- 

 icines, dressing, etc. It is not possible to answer this question as these 

 goods are bought in large quantities and it is difficult to say how much 

 is used per month, (e) Subsistence about 450 pesos per month. (/) Mis- 

 cellaneous expenses amount to 38 pesos per month. Appended is a list of 

 the personnel with their salaries: Physician etc., 850 pesos; nurses, 300 

 pesos; attendants, 363 pesos; sanitarians, mosquito chasers, etc., 623 pesos; 

 miscellaneous, 120 pesos. The difference between these figures and the 

 3,500 pesos quoted above is paid to the police, the workers on the incinerator, 

 and the daily labor employed in cleaning camp and performing various 

 duties of a like nature. 



21. What charges, if any, are made against employees for medical and 

 hospital attention: (a) For skilled labor, (6) for unskilled labor? 



The Mindoro Company: No charges are made against workmen for hos- 

 pital and medical attendance. 



San Jose Estate: No charges are made to either skilled or unskilled 

 labor, and time goes on during accident. 



22. Is the time lost on account of illness a charge against the employee 

 or against the company, and, in the latter event, during what period of 

 time does the company continue to pay wages when the employees are ill? 



The Mindoro Company: All laborers are on a daily basis, and are paid 

 for actual work performed. 



San Jose Estate: Time lost from accidents in the company's service is 

 paid by the company. 



23. What charges, if any, are made for professional and hospital 

 attendance of the families of the employees: (a) Of skilled labor, (6) of 

 unskilled labor? 



The Mindoro Company: No charge is made for hospital or medical 

 attendance in the cases of family of employee. 

 San Jose Estate: None. 



24. Is medical attendance for employees reported absent on account of 

 illness compulsory, and what methods for investigating such reported illness 

 are in practice? 



The Mindoro Company: Medical attendance for employees absent on 

 account of reported illness is not compulsory. 



San Jose Estate: Yes. The camps are visited daily by police and 

 sanitarians, and all cases are reported to the medical authorities and 

 treated either at home or in hospital as the judgment of the doctor in 

 charge directs. 



