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not felt as we feel them* and this undoubtedly enaoxes them to recover 
from wounds which would oe fatal to whites. They cannot appreciate 
oii.r acuter feelings nor we their obtuseness. What appears unspeakable 
brutality to us, is mere commonplace to them, and our scale of punish¬ 
ments for white offenders does not fit the crime of Malays. All these 
things inevitably blunt our own sensibilities in time and accustom us 
to conditions which cannot be t»fc A ated at home. It is therefore certain 
that the term of service for soldiers should be short and none should 
be discharged here but all transported home. There have been numerous 
moral wrecks floating about this territory, physically unfitted to 
labor like brown men, unable to find employment because mentally unfit 
for anything except coarse labor at home——mere tramps-—oecoming victims 
of disease from eating the unsuitable native food which they buy or 
extort, scarcely a day goes oy without several applications lor work 
from such men. A stream ot them tramp ip and down the Railroad, pen— 
niless and a burden to the community. The universal loss of enor^ 
in r veaw or two, in all whites even those best careci for, renders <ao 
tive work impossible. Mental labor is generally painful. These tramps 
then ere a sad. refuse to leave behind. 
SQ^—'pne supply of fresh vegetables is limited to potatoes and 
onions of the ration and sometimes not even that. 
70.-Venereal diseases are almost universal among negro troops, iar 
less common with white and practically absent from native troops. Tfce 
common professional native prostitute is the medium ot infection and 
many badly infected women travel from place to place. 
71. —VT3TTILATI0N is unnecessary as all the houses are so open. 
72 . —'WASHING is usually done by natives and liable to be infected. 
A laundry was established at San Felipe Neri on the Tezom Ration 
of the surgeon, Chinese workmen being given a roora i., t^e 
and hired by the month, a scale of prices estaolished and all so d 
ordered to use no other laundry. It .is so excellent ■'b.at I r v 
ed to the Adjutant General of the Brigade that it be egtaolishea x i 
all stations.. 
73.-WATER is taken from streams as a rule, in the * s 
very good but the lower down the stream we go the more contamination. 
Forbes Waterhouse sterilizers were used everywhere, but as tney do- i°t 
boil the water long enough J^ey were not trustee Jurn^ th. cholera 
epidemic when all drinkingjwas boiled. The artesian %ate. o. oa_ 
Fernando, Pampanga, is very free from organic out so fill- of 
mineral salts as to be laxative to many people. Before cholera appear 
ed it was not even considered necessary to boil it. iiie . , s a 
percentage of intestinal diseases and these being °^, d J^ 1Ti e- / ~ 
eally no new cases arising—shows the good result of s . a 
b0il ^- ou™!r 1 S’t^SIIe WaKious^stermser'reported de¬ 
fective and the apparatus is therefore unreliable. I a.n Jdieh 
to any patent sterilizers, filters, etc., m the 
is effective for bacteria unless its pores are so smaH that water nas 
to be forced through against the capillary a raco, * -aicro 
MC!i1v it, i B no ^ood. Even the Pasteur filter allows the smai-o^ mi-.- 
organisms to iasl.. sterilisers are liable to fail when needed most 
and* there is something like a fetish about the word, whx^. > i a 
folse sense of security. One station Commander said he not only 
hoi?ed tie water Alt sterilisted it also in a 7erbes Waterhouse sten- 
lizer. 
74.-There are no male or female contract nuBses in the Brigade. 
7s -NO medicsI officers have had the opportunity to distinguish 
them series by acts of personal bravery such as is usually mean^.^ 
that term, nor have any had hazardous service. In v .d 
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