Said projects would include US annexation of the Philippines during the aftermath of the Spanish-American War in 1898. The McKinley administration would declare that the United States’ position within the Philippines was to “oversee the establishment of a civilian government” in the model of the United States. This would be done through adopting a civilizing process that would entail a “medical reformation," among other socioeconomic reforms. The Spanish Health System had broken down after the 1898 War and was replaced with an American military model, which was made up of public health institutions. This “medical reformation” was done with “military rigor” as part of a civilizing process in which American public health officers set out to train native Filipinos the “correct techniques of the body." The process of “rationalised hygiene” was a technique for colonising in the Philippines, as part of the American physicists assurance that the colonised Philippines was inhabited with propriety. Other “sweeping reforms and ambitious public works projects” would include the implementation of a free public school system, as well as architecture to develop ‘economic growth and civilising influence’ as an important component of president McKinley's “benevolent assimilation”