The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-03
Sanitary Conditions Are Bad, and
phOid, Malaria and Smallpox.
ARRIVAL OF A TROOP SHIP
TRANSPORT PERU RETURNS TO SAN
FRANCISCO FROM MANILA.
RebeIIiOus FiIipinOs Warned by Chief
AEuinaldO They Are Liable to
BE Declared Outlaws.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2.-The Asso-
ciated Press has received the following cor
respondence dated Manila, Oct. 8:
THE health of the troops here at present
is far from being good, Notwithstanding the
statements of the medical department to the
contrary AT Cavite the conditions are very
bad. There have been forty deaths there
since Sept. /, mostly from typhoid fever.
One-third of the officers of the Montana
volunteer regiment are on the sick list, in
GLIDING the colonel and lieutenant colonel,
who are unfit for duty. In one battery alone
over IS per cent. of the men stationed there
have been on the sick list within a month,
the officers being affected as well as pri-
Yates. The hospital accommodations there
are inadequate The supply of medicines was
exhausted at one time and for days there
was nothing incidentally to administer to
the patients. The place is unhealthy at best.
The men are quartered on ground floors,
where it is damp, and in this country es-
pecially conducive to illness. Many of the
men worked themselves i'll during the pro-
cess of cleaning Cavite but now sanitary
conditions are being looked after and an inn
proved health record will doubtless follow.
I'm Manila the conditions are better. The
men are fairly we'll quartered and are be-
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possible and it will not now be long before
all reason for complaint will have passed.
Much of the sickness of the past can be
traced to the overcrowding of the men while
proper quarters were being prepared.
Malaria is the most common of the diseases
among the troops. A malarial condition is
the natural result of the climate and sani-
tary conditions which prevail. Typhoid fever
has also developed to a serious degree. The
average number of sick in the hospitals, in
addition to the number Of men relieved from
duty by order of the physicians, is eight
hundred. The new cases reported to the hos
pitfalls daily average about forty cases.
''There have been twelve cases of small
pox among the soldiers so far, six of which
have proven fatal. The regimental ply
scans have advised the embarrassing of
the soldiers quarters and the liberal use
of corrosive sublimate, but there is not suf-
ficient lime or corrosive sublimate, or even
a good substitute to be had. Smallpox is
always prevalent among the natives, many
having it as children. The doctors are do
ing everything possible to confine it among
the natives. No cases have been reported
in the past five days. The hospitals which
in the past have been nothing more than
death traps, are being put into sanitary
condition. They are abundantly supplied
with food and medicines are now obtainable
at a moments notice. The Red Cross has
been greatly mismanaged and gives little
assistance.
col. Lippincott has steadily refused to
give out any information to the press from
his Office up to to-day and only then through
General Otis Colonel I4ppincott said. With
cooler weather a radical improvement is
looked for
Gen. Otis recently inspected one Of the
hospitals-the Convent Hospital, established
since the capitulation of Manila, and said
it was the finest hospital he had ever Wis
ited'