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The average medical officer enters enthusiastically on his 
duties as instructor,but soon becomes hopelessly discouraged 
with the results produced and either carries on the work in the 
most perfunctory manner or under first one excuse and then 
another evades it altogether. 
There are 19 female nurses in the Department distributed 
among the Brigade Hospitals at Vigan, Bagupan and Calamba. While 
their work has been in every way sati ictory and their conduct 
ost exemplary it is thought that present conditions warrant an 
immediate reduction in their number and that the services of all 
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can be dispensed with in the near future. 
There has been much sickness among the horses and mules 
throughout the Department. Glanders and farcy have occurred in 
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many localities,although not to a serious extendi. Anthrax has 
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been reported at San Fernando de Union where it was contracted 
from.native cattle. Surra has existed in numerous places through- 
out Luzon,but as yet there have been no cases north of Bayambang, 
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Pangasinan. In studying this singular disease Captain G.s.Wallace, 
Assistant Surgeon,U.S.V.,surgeon at Pasig,Rizal has seen the fully 
developed parasite in the blood of apparently healthy animals 
five days before any symptoms of illness and a much longer period 
before any symptoms peculiar to surra. He also observed in the 
blood of one horse,sick with the early symptoms of the disease, 
