not felt as *e feel them, and this undoubtedly enables thorn to recover 
from wou ? which would E i to whit as. ""icy oa . state 
our sou tor feelings nor wo their obtueenese* “Tint appears nnnneaKsble 
brut at tty to >2, la H-er* commonplace to them, u:d our sml* of puriiSh- 
ticnto for hit- offenders doe* not -fit Vos oriie of daleys. Mi th r, se 
things inevitably blunt our oirjL^o^t^titttOB in ttrje and noonstora us 
one which cannot at horn. therefore certain 
that the ten’s of service for soldiers should ho eh**—*. and none should 
bo '-ioov ryn-i tare ’ut -n trinsorted bcT** mere have boon numerous 
uo "-1 .• • -o fi •• ;-r.:t . ^ ■■■ tueri y, .• riviViy unfit ed to 
labor W'" v~o 'n son, unable to find employment because mentally unfit 
r r Anything except soars* labor at rmoe—cars tramps—becoming vie tins* 
of t : iu>or 'O f'ror on tin/' the unsuitable native food which they buy or 
extort, scarcely a lay goes by without several applications Cor vorK 
f^o '«ioh vnon. a ot«wara of then trir.ro 0 and down the Railroad, pen-. 
burden to too >4^‘unity. The 'inlTersai toss of on y 
ir • yea 1 " or two, in all whites even those host oared for, renders ao- 
tt-o "orb iwy.-ia'iihle. • ntal 1 ? or i fen orally gainful, rjiose tramp® 
then are a tr»d refuse to leave behind. 
f 0 . -~h <** Supply o'* fronh vegetables is It sited to potatoes and 
on: a of the ration and cometimes not even that* 
70.-Venareal diseases are almost universal among negro troops, nr 
less eowTon vtti whit* practically absent Cron Native troops* •ane 
eoir. on professional native prostitute is the *aedin» of infection and 
many badly infested women travel from plane to plane* 
«s 
1 *-v*rjTxi ( A?i ; b»? is dnneo*s«ary as all the houses are so open. 
vrBiTinn i« usually -lone by natives and liable to be infected. 
A 1 sundry was established at fan Felipe Rori on the recon endstion 
of the c wrgeon, Chinese verhraen being given a room in the basement 
vnr hired by the months a scale of prices established and all soldiers 
ordered to use no other laundry. It is so excellent that I reooiaraend 
ed to the Adjutant Sonera! of the brigade that it be established in 
all stations*• 
v^.-r.ATbv i© tfijeen froi-i streams ns a rule, in the foothills it is 
very good but, the lover down the stream we 50 the more contamination. 
Forbes Waterhouse steriliser? or* used everywhere* * nt as they do not 
boil the water leu • enough tiKp^were no* +r*-l 3 t*d during the cholera 
epidemic 'lum all drirXi!C^t^'ocil*vi. The arteetanidate^ o*- sen 
r*rnando, Vsrapanga , is very fro- from organ!5 matter, 1 ut so full of 
iiir. rnl •• sits • > "0 bo laxative to > ’ ny : cople, -'afore cholera appear¬ 
ed it vns not even considered necessary to boil it. The very small 
percentage of intestinal diseases and these being old cases—practic¬ 
es lly no new cases arising—shows the good result of sterilising water 
V'.r-;. > .an water* 
The v-imr.-r- 0 ^ the ^orbea Waterhouse steriliser is reports' de¬ 
fective and the apparatus is therefore unreliable. I am meh opposed 
Isers, filters* etc., in the tropics, to iter 
is effective * bast *ia ■' its res so small that water has 
to be forced through against the capillary attraction, if it wor>;s 
easily it good* Fven the Fastens? filter allows the smalles micro 
organ isms to rase., s tort Users arc liable to fail when needed most 
and there is not 50 thIng like 9 fetish about the word, which gives a 
f?. Isa sen 00 of security, ore station commander said he not only 
boiled the water i^it steriliged it also in ?, for bos Waterhouse steri¬ 
liser. 
T4*-fh e are no Bale or tie n tract nnsoes in t! Brigade* 
* * * 
? . - 0 edlcal officers have had the oppcrtnviity to dietingnish 
them solves by acts of personal bravery such as is usually meant by 
that terra, nor have any had hazardous service* In regard to parti- 
