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*■* llaB occurred sporadically in various local* 
Some cases were carried to Mindoro by the 30th, Infantry during 
August 
The cases occurring in the same regiment at Santa Cruz,Marin- 
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toque, probably became Infected at that point, from native sources. 
The 15th. Cavalry developed 8 or 10 cases at San Pablo and other 
points during March, and apparently brought it into the Brigade. 
PLAQUE. - One case only has shown Itself in garrison, 
an en¬ 
listed company cook of the 4th* Infantry ( who associated much with 
natives i, dying at Halo, July 1 , from Septioaemio Plague. 
SMALL POX. - cases among natives were reported during March at 
the prison, Batangas, Cavinti, Nagcarlang, Pagsanjan, Laquimanoo, 
and Luoban, and 5 oases in the 38th. Infantry at San Francisco de 
Malabon, - 2 soldiers dying from it* 
As compulsory vaccination of all natives throughout Batangas 
and Laguna was ordered January 16, resulting in nearly 500,000 vac¬ 
cinations, it seems probable that the concentration of population 
in towns would have developed much small-pox, had not this measure 
been employed* v 
A supplementary report on native vaccination will be found else- 
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where. 
BSRI BSRI, - can nearly always be found among the natives,if 
sought for. However,it was not till the concentration of this year, 
and imprisonment of several hundred natives at each, Batangas, Santa 
0 - and Maligi Island, that its prevalence among Filipinos was ap- 
preciated* 
CHOLERA, - has not been reported to these Headquarters, as occur- 
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ring in the Brigade. 
. Defensive sanitary measures, however, as ordered from Division 
Headquarters, have been taken, in the line e 
’ m the line of, Boards of Health, vigil¬ 
ance in boarding vessels, with theiv occasional 
- sessional quarantine, and super¬ 
vision of native life m ali towns. 
