tions required, by G.O.101,series 1901,Headquarters Division of 
the Philippines have apparently diminished the number of cases 
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and should be rigidly carried out everywhere. The control of 
women,referred to in the above order,iS often difficult to effect 
under the civil government. 
The prevailing diseases in the Department aside from venereal 
have been malarial and intestinal disorders. The low,swampy 
ground so common in the more thicXly settled portions of these 
Islands, the excessive moisture during much of the year,and the 
ranX growth of vegetation with the resulting excess of decaying 
organic matter furnish the malaria-breeding mosquito with all the 
Conditions necessary for the propagation of malarial disease. 
While mosquito-bars are used with gratifying results among all 
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troops engaged in garrison duty,this precaution is impossible in 
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the field,where the greatest amount of malarial infection occurs. 
The majority of the intestinal diseases have been due.to poorly 
prepared food,to eating green native fruits and to drinXing un¬ 
sterilized water. 
The average percentage of sicX in this Department since its 
formation, December 1st, 1901 has been 1.57$ in quarters and 3.76;' 
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in hospital,or a total of 5 1/3m. The number of deaths during 
the same period has been 133. 
The principal endemic diseases existing in the Department 
are malaria,dysentery and beri-beri. Only a few cases of beri-beri 
