Waterhouse Sterilizer and a resort to water simply boiled in camp 
Kettles an immediate and perfect remedy. 
jhe rations furnished during the year have been of excollenu 
quality and abundant at all stations, except that it has at t-unes 
been impossible through lacK. of transportation to supply certain 
isolated stations with fresh meat and vegetables. This has been 
the case with a number of stations in the southern part of tne 
Department. This office has been informed that the Quartermaster's 
Department has secured a meat-ship which will supply all coast 
stations. When this arrangement is effected it is thought there 
will be very few stations in the Department which will not be well 
and abundantly supplied at all times. 
At Aparri,Batangas and Nueva Caceres the Medical Department 
Ice Machines have arranged to furnish refrigerating power for cold- 
storage rooms, so that the Coi amiss ary Department can preserve 
indefinitely the meat and vegetables delivered at those stations. 
The Commissary Department agrees to pay for the power thus used. 
It is thought the same arrangement might be extended with 
advantage to other places where there are Medical Department Ice 
Machines. 
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There has been no scurvy in the Department. A number of cases 
were reported in Lupi,Camarines, but on investigation were found 
to be errors in diagnosis and to be in no way dependent on tne 
food-supply. 
