51.-All garrisons ore o.uaii, the largest toeing of two oompanicc 
and only two of that ^ise an the Brigade. 
S3,»The guardhouse is usually in the basement unde * quarters or 
in a oaraarrine and is therefore always damp and unsuitable. 
SES and. mules have teen nearly wiped, out in pis -rurra* 
m known beyond that reported toy the hoard 01 t} isease. 
Their food is said to toe improper (fit only for native ponies) and this 
may have so reduced vitality to have v e them liable tc infections. 
If fed properly they may have resisted srtrra. 
34. -T HE W SPITAL8 are all established in native houses or • part 
o convent. They are all in the upper story* y, suit le, well 
ventilated, cool, md of cuff iclent air space, an- j sufficient sise 
and. bed, capacity. A few native nipa and bamboo houses are used. 
Several needed repairs tout it v as difficult to get money for the pur¬ 
pose and the rent is not large enough to deduct cost of repairs, 
hose ij eoted were in good condition to io and or r. store 
rooms were often on the ground floor and unsuitable. For isolation 
separate tents or shacks are used. 
,-TH HOSPITAL corps allowance, 4‘->, is not h where 
the troops are divided into such small detachments occupying a country 
5b would not toe too large, when concentrated into regiments 3-l/Sp 
is sufficient in war, nd 3‘b in peace or even 3-1 or ff per regi¬ 
ment in garriso . Likewise the number of non-commissioned officers 
is too small, l/d of total, when there are so many one com fly stations. 
It should toe one-fifth or one non-commissioned to every four 
privates or one for every station. We hare been hard pressed to get 
non-comriseioned officers. There are no matrons. 
The general appearance of the men is only fair, because it 
has been difficult to get clothing at outlying stations and their uni¬ 
forms are somewhat faded. Discipline has been good as a rule, there 
being but very small percentage of o >nts and Courts—Martial. 
Habits and efficiency were good as far as could be lea M on 1 ico¬ 
ns* Several cases of chronic a cholism have oc- urred a alieve 
what these u.en are lucre prone to the licensed form than soldiers in 
the li ve, tout the cause i inknown. The safety of the sick demands 
that alcoholics in the Hospital dorps toe eliminated and this is done 
' lie. Equipments is generally complete# pouches In field use 
more than a year are generally unfit for further service. All are in^ 
strueted five hours a week, tout it is practically impossible to keep 
this op. JfJfepre ought to some limit to the at ter we can de¬ 
clare thentrained in the elements. It se to e that it should also 
be intermittent and not an interminable grind year in and out. To 
keep on as we now do is like'compelling an officer to take a course 
of el© entary arithmetic ail his life, a lesson every week until he 
is sixty-four. We should toe stole to say a Hospital corps man is a 
graduate sometime and omit further elementary work. Practically a 
Hospital Corps private though expected to toe learned in everything 
from o eating technique t driving the ambulance mules, is a ecial— 
ist, as is every employee a civil hospital# for no man* train is 
big enough to make him absorb every detail of every position in a 
l ai. rery man is pt on the work he sst and this 
should toe recognized and not compel him to over and over again, the 
lessons end lectures he will never have use for. There have been 
no desertions and only a few (colored) are married to natives as far 
as known. 
36.-ICE in this Brigade is supplied from Manila to those in eas^ 
reach, and from can Isidro, N.E.,Ioe plant for th# group of . osts of 
which this station is the centre. 
37.-INSPECTIONS are ma<fe at 
speotor and the Brigade Stitrgeon. 
rupted toy the cholera epidemic. 
least once a year toy the Brigade In- 
The work this year has been inter- 
