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cular devotion to duty, I cannot speak too highly of their energetic 
ans successful work in the prevention, and stamping out off cholera. 
The amount of work done was enormous and the results are highly satis¬ 
factory. 
76.-The commanding Officer at Baliuag, Bulacan, issued an order 
eulogizing the devotion to duty of the late private Joseph G.M.Eise- 
mann, Hospital Corps, who lost his life hy infection caught from a 
cholera stricken soldier whom he was nursing. The order also spofte 
of the courage and devotion of Private Leonard B.Stephenson, Hospi¬ 
tal Corps who went to the assistance of Private Eisemann when the 
latter was taken sick. Private Calvin 1.Scott, Hospital Corps, has 
been recommended for a certificate of merit for rescuing A.H.s. John 
A.Harris, from drowning in a whirlpool in the river at Penaranda, N.E., 
in which they were doth caught. 
77. -Diarrhoea, dysentery, Malaria, small-pox, and Cholera are 
all discussed in Nos, 23 & 28. There have been no Beri beri, or bubonic 
plague at any stations. One case of lepros 3 ^reported at San Mateo, 
Rizal. 
78. -The troops are re-vaccinated when there is any fresh exposure. 
There has been also some vaccination of natives near stations but no 
general vaccination of the population. 
79. -THE QUARANTINE measures have been very severe during the chole* 
epidemic. All contacts have been confined in detention camp five days. 
All travel was stopped on roads and streams except for necessary sup¬ 
plies. A system of passes was devised in this office and printed by 
the insular Board of Health, and have given fair satisfaction. Quaran¬ 
tine has undoubtedly kept cholera out of many places and has greatly 
restricted its spread. 
80. —NO INDIGENT NATIVES have been cared for. There does not seem - 
to be any of that starvation and extreme poverty we find^at home nor 
that pauperism which results from 3aoss of moral tone. The native call 
always get something to eat. The only disreputable and worthless in— 
digents are white men, usually discharged soldiers and one of these 
had to be taken care of at a Military Hospital, as he had beri ben, 
no doubt due to ^ ' —a. food. 
81. -PERSONNEL of the Medical Department has been referred to above. 
82. -There does not seem to be much choice.as to healthfulness of 
posts in the Brigade. Those on the coast and^the hills are coolest 
and those in Zambales have reputations ffor healthfulmess. 
83 . -MOSQUITO NETS are used by ever:/ soldier except in four Native 
companies, in one of these companys’ malaria has been rife, and is 
rare in another company using nets. The Adjutant General of the^Bri¬ 
gade was informed of this and recommendation made that the use of nets 
throughout the Brigade be made compulsory on the ground that Malaria 
is now proved to be a preventable contagious disease. This was issued 
as a circular* 
84.-Very few use vino to excess. There is no reliable data at^all 
to prove the newspaper stories of the dreadful effect of vino, indeed 
it is a freshly fermented and distilled liquor, it is like new whiskey 
and the^e is no evidence that it is any different in effedt. There 
Is at home an idea that there is something fatal about vino an es¬ 
sence causing insanity, but it has no basis in Ifacts. rnat has pro¬ 
bably caused this idea is the fact that when a man becomes an alcoholic 
and has a typical craving for stimulaftfes he will take anything cohr- 
