The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-03
MONTANA MEN ARE SICK
ons-Third Of the Officers Are on
the List.
MEDICINES WERE SHORT
nnaar1a and Typhoid Fever the Most
oommon-Hospitai Conditions In
adequste-Many Cases OF
Smallpox

San Francisco. Nov. 2-The ASSOCIATE
Cd press has received the following cor
u~spondence. dated Manila. oct. IL:
The health Of the troops here at pres
ent ID far from being good. notwith-
standing the statements OF the medical
department to the contrary. AT Cavite
the conditions are very bad. There
have been over 40 deaths there since
Sept 1. mostly from typhoid fever. One
third OF h force OF officers from the
Montana regiment are on the sick list.
including the colonel and lieutenant
colonel. who are unit for duty. In one
battery alone over rs per cent. OF the
men stationed there have been on the
sick list within a month. the officers
being affected as well as the privates.
The hospital accommodations there are
inadequate. The supply of medicines
was exhausted at one time. and for
days n days there was nothing med
icinally to administer TO the patients.
The place IL unhealthy at best.
The men are quartered on ground
foors. where IL Is damp. and in this
country especially. conducive 10 illness.
Many OF the men worked themselves
III during the process Of cleaning Cavite,
but o that the sanitary conditions
w being looked after, an improved
health record will doubtless follow.
In Manila the conditions are better.
Tho men are fairly well quartered and
are being given better accommodations
n fast as possible. and Il will not now
be long before all reason for complaint
win have passed. Much OF the sick
ness Of h past q be trace to the
overcrowding OF the men while prope
quarters were being prepared.
Malaria II the most common OF dis
eases among the troops. A malarial
condition II the natural result of the
climate and sanitary conditions which
prevail. Typhoid fever has also devel-
oped to q serious degree. The average
number Of sick In the hospitals, In ad-
dition to the number OF men relieved
from duty by order OF the physicians
n 800. The new cases reported TO the
hospitals daily average about 40 cases.
There ave been IL cases of small
Dol among the soldiers so far, six OF
which have proved fatal. The regi-
mental physicians have advised the
withdrawing Of the quarters and the
liberal use OF corrosive sublimate. or
q substitute to be had. Smallpox
IN always prevalent among the natives.
many having It as children. The doc
tors are doing everything possible to
confine IL among the natives. No cases
have been reported for the past five
days. The hospitals. which In the past
have been nothing more n death
traps. are being put into sanitary o
dition. They are abundantly supplied
with food and medicines. The Red
Cross has been greatly mlsmanaged
and has been OF little assistance.
Colonel Lippincott has steadily refus-
ed TO give out any information to the
press from his ONCE up to to-day and
only then through Otis. Colonel Lip
pincott said: with cooler weather a
radical Improvement is looked for"
Genera Otis recently inspected one OF
the hoepitals-the Covenant hospital.
established here since the c~apitulation
OF Manila-and said IL was the finest
hospital he had ever visited.