towns throughout the Department. In accordance with a request 
from the Insular Board of Health medical officers have furnished 
reports of these cases,but,as far as.Known,no action has yet been 
taken in the way of segregating these unfortunates. 
During the early portion of the period covered by this 
report bubonic plague existed to a mild degree in Manila with an 
occasional case in one of the outlying towns. The only soldier 
attached by this disease was a company cook of the 4th Infantry, 
stationed at Naic,Cavite,who died July 1st,1901. He had associated 
inti: ritely with the natives and. doubtless contracted the disease 
in this way. Under the requirements of Circular 53, Headquarters 
Division of the Philippines,1901 especial attention has been paid 
to the destruction of rats in all barracks and quarters of the 
city of Manila. Those vermin have been greatly reduced in numbers 
and are now seldom found in any of the cuartels. The same war 
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of extermination has been carried on by the civil authorities, 
who have paid a .small reward for each dead rat delivered. Whether 
due to this or to other unknown agencies plague has disappeared 
completely, no cases having been reported during the past three 
month s. 
There has been less small-pox throughout the Department than 
in former years, the largest epidemic of the disease having occurred 
at Tuguegaraq,Cagayan. Among troops there have been only a few, 
scattered oases. 
A few cases of typhoid fever appeared among the 30th Infantry 
