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certain regions of the Archipelago, To prove this assertion, I 

 may cite as examples, what I personally observed; namely, in 

 Calbayog, Samar Province, the rarest clinical forms of asca- 

 riasis; in Ormoc, Leyte, a disease called kolo-kolo which I had 

 not observed in any other locality; and in Jaro, Leyte, many 

 cases of simple exophthalmic goiter in women who inhabited 

 that mountainous district. Furthermore, we have near us in 

 the town of Paranaque, Rizal, the disease locally known as buvas, 

 or yaws, which is a common affection of the inhabitants. 



If we look at Table II which condenses the answers to question 

 B (which diseases predominate in your locality in certain months 

 of the year and what are their causes?), we can readily see that 

 as a whole there are no seasonal diseases in the different parts 

 of the Archipelago, but that the same pathological entities with 

 slight variations prevail during the entire year. The truth of 

 this assertion, however, seems to me questionable. Neverthe- 

 less, we notice that in Ilocos Sur, Iloilo, Leyte, and Occidental 

 Negros, and perhaps in the rest of the Archipelago, smallpox, 

 measles, varicella, and all forms of gastrointestinal affections 

 predominate during the hot months — February, March, April, 

 and May — while cases of grippe and bronchitis are more numer- 

 ous during the months of November, December, and January — 

 the coldest months of the year. 



The answers to questions C and D are not included in this 

 paper, as they contribute no additional information on the causes 

 and remedies of the known diseases in the Philippine Islands. 



All agree in admitting that the wide distribution of pulmonary 

 tuberculosis in the Philippines is due to the ignorance of the 

 masses in questions of hygiene and that such ignorance is 

 responsible for the overcrowding of the churches, the giving of 

 banquets in houses where tuberculous persons have just died, 

 the abuse of alcoholic drinks, the lack of personal cleanliness, 

 the habit of sleeping with closed windows, the lack of care in 

 isolating tuberculous patients, as well as that the inevitable 

 sequelae of poverty is the insufficient nutrition of the body. With 

 these observations, it is clear that in combating this terrible 

 disease there should necessarily be an energetic antituberculosis 

 campaign along educational lines. 



It is believed by the majority of thinkers that the wide distri- 

 bution of malaria is due to the abundance of mosquitoes in pools 

 and in other stagnant waters found all over the Philippines and 

 the best remedy for this disease consists in drainage, the drying 



