eular devoti uty, x Bonnot speak too highly o** their energetic 
ans successful worfc in the prevention, and stamping out or cholera. 
The amount of work tone was enormous an^ the remits are highly satis 
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76.- Oommandlnj officer at Bali > Bulaoa » 1 ued an order 
eulogising the devotion to y of the late private Jo o cob ( 'V.." : 'Lse— 
marm, H« ital Corps, who lost 1 life by infection caught from a 
cholera stricken soldier whom he was nursing. The order also spoke 
enrage and devotion of Private hebnard B#Stephenson> Hospi¬ 
tal co who went to the assistance of Private Hi* .ann when the 
latter was taken sick. Private Calvin B.Boott* Hospital Corps, has 
"been cecormended for ° certificate on -orit for rescu irJ3---4.n'.q. John 
A.Harris, from drowning in a whirlpool in the river at pci 
in which they were 'noth caught* 
enarands, T.$.» 
77.-Piarrhoea, dysentery, • rla, croaii-pox, and Cholera ore 
all discussed in ?Tos ?a & 38. There have been no Peri heri, or bubonic 
plague at any station-. One case of leprosy, re jyted at San Mateo f 
Risal. 
78*— The troops are re-vaccinated when there is any fresh tposure* 
There has “been also some vaccination of natives near stations but no 
general vaccination of the population. 
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79 # -?k; FARAHTIBB measures have beer* VCTf severe dUT ; the choice 
ev>i jjj 0 t Ki] contacts Pave boen confined in detention camp five days. 
All travel was stopped on roads and streams except for necessary sup¬ 
plies. A system of passes was devised in this office ind printed by 
the insular Board of ealth, and hove given fair satisfaction* Quaratt- 
tine has undoubtedly kept coolers out of many places and has freatly 
restricted its spread. 
80. -R0 iuviOtffT HAT1PB8 have been cared for. There does not seem 
to be any of that starvation end extreme poverty we find at home nor 
that pauperism which results from fcoss of moral tone. The native can 
always get something to eat* The only diareput le and worthless in— 
digents r» rp white men, usually discharged soldiers and one of these 
had to.be taken care of at a Military Hospital, as he had beri beri, 
no doubt due to improper food. 
81. —PBHSOHNHh of the Medical n«part snt has been referred to ove 
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8n.-There does not seem to » much choice^as to ,healthfulnesa of 
posts in the Brigade* These on the coast and^ the hills are coolest 
and those in gambalea have reputations for healthfullness. 
r*,—mosquito wf-ts ar~' used by every soldier except in four native 
companies. In one of these company s’ m»taria has been rife, and is 
rar" n another con my sing nets. The Adjutant General Of the Bri- 
trnriwas informed of this and recommendation mado that the use of nets 
through->ut the Brigade be made compulsory on the .ground that Malaria 
is now proved to be a preventable contagious disease. This was issued 
as a circular. . 
84.-Very ew use vino to excess* There is no reliable data at all 
to urove the newspaper stories of the dreadful effect of vino. Indeed 
it is a freshly fermented and distilled liquor, it fa .like new whiskey 
and there is no evidence that it is any '’iterant in effect. There 
is at homo an idea that there ns something fatal about vino at es¬ 
sence causing insanity, but it has no oasis in facts, -hat has pro¬ 
bably caused this idea is the fact that when a man becomes an alcoholic 
and has a typical craving for stimulahbs h< rill take '■thing con- 
