The Washington times., 1902-08-08
Total of 5,967 Cases Re-
ported, of Which 1920
ReSul. ed in Death.
TROOPS SUFFER HEAVY LOSS
Health Report and Casualty List Re-
ceived, Latter Giving Names of the
Soldier Dead Ignorance Aiding
Spread of Virulent Malady.

Surgeon General Forwood received a
health report from the Division of the
Philippines yesterday for the month end
ing June Is. II shows that in a COM
mand of 3l.o5O men, 3.29 per cent were
sick.
The deaths in the command during the
month were 20, as compared with 1o6
for the previous period. OF the deaths,
cholera caused 81. dysentery :. typhoid
fever >. drowning c.
Lieutenant Colonel Harvey. who
makes the report. says: Cholera has
attacked two officers. GO Americans, and
one native soldier. The cause in the
majority of instances has been the
drinking of infected water; few cases
have been due 10 food. contaminated b.
158 places has been attacked. extending
from Laoag on the north of Dulog 10
Leyte on the south
Virulent Cholera Spreading.
In the Camarines Sur the epidemic
seems to have been stamped out. but in
Laguna and Batangas and the adjacent
part OF the province OF Tayabas cholera
has spread in virulent form. hundreds
of cases having probably occurred with
out report. Outside of Manila a total
of 5,967 has been reported. with i.290
deaths; in the city of Manila 1850
cases. with 1.10G deaths.
The people in the small towns are
very ignorant. consider cholera as a Wis
itation of Providence, and cannot be in
duced to take proper precautionary
measures"
Long Casualty List.
The War Department has received
from the Philippines another LONG
casualty list showing especially the
number of deaths that have occurred ir
the command from Asiatic cholera since
the date of the last report. June II. 1902
The report just submitted includes only
those deaths that occurred up to June IS
1902. The official list follows:
Asiatic cholera-Charles E. Payton
corporal. l, Twenty-eighth Infantry
June 16: Ernest N. Thatcher, private, A
Second Infantry June 10; Edward Br-
zeinski. corporal. A, Second Infantry
June II: Alexander II. Holmes. corporal
+, Ninth Cavalry. June Is; Eugen.
Stead. private, +, Ninth Cavalry. June
Is; Edward Davis, private. A, Second In
fantry, June 3; Michael Burke, private,
A, Second Infantry. June S; John F.
Shea, quartermaster sergeant, A, Second
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private. A, Second Infantry, June S;
julius Schleyer. private. l., Eighth In
fantry, June 10; John Costello, private
NJ, sixth Cavalry, June Il; Joseph d
Calvert, private, F, Eighth Infantry
June S.; William Chapman, private. l.
Fifth Cavalry, June IS: Evert Yeargood
private, H, Ninth Cavalry, June 10,
William Smith, farrier, H, Ninth Caval-
~. June IL; Joseph Jinkins, private, II,
Ninth Cavalry, June s; Mark Levrett
private, H, Ninth Cavalry, June 8; james
E. Johnson, private, E, Eighth Infantry
June 8: Henry Berry. private, Is. Ninth
Cavalry, June s: William E. Rice, pri-
vate, G, Thirtieth Infantry, June 5; Jo-
aeph b. Evans. private, F, Ninth CaIal-
~, June IA; Robert C. Holland, private
H, Ninth Cavalry, June 10; George W
Wortham, private. X, Ninth Cavalry
June W ~ hdboOhs
A. Second Infantry, June u: Archie E
Hanks, private, L. First Cavalry. June
u; William B. Hergaton. private. A. Sec
ond Cavalry. June u: William 7. e
Kimmick, private. A, Second Infantry
June y: Alfred ". Leader, private. A
Second Infantry. June u; Claude Wash
ington, private +, Ninth Cavalry. June
13: James ]. Lewis, private, F. Ninth
Cavalry. June II; Eustaquio, private
THIRTY fourth Company. Native Scouts
June . Charles HHiman. private. G
Tweniy-eisEth infantry. May II.
Drowned bodies recovered = JohI
Schuler. private. Company G, Sixteenth
Infantry. May 4; George A. Kepp. pri-
vate. Company C. Tenth Infantry. Apri
29; Albert Linden. private. Company b
Twenty sixth Infantry, June ..
Typhoid. fever-Richard Knox. pri-
vate. Company F. Ninth Cavalry. June
u: John Schmid. private. Hospital
Corps, May 80.
Result of gunshot wound in action
Jack VI. Russell, private. Company L
Ninth Infantry, June 10.
Variola - Elmer Burnett private
Company +. Nineteenth Infantry. May
IL
stenosis of sigmoid iexure-Thomas
J. Law. private. Company /, Eleventh
Cavalry, June l6.
Intestinal emorrhage-Frank c. Fitz-
gerald. private, Company X. Eighth In
fantry. June u.
Hepatitis-Hubert G. Speakman. cor
poral band, Twenty-eigth Infantry
June I6.
Hepatic cirrhosis-James E. Ward
private. Company l.. First Infantry
May Is.
observation-disclosures n. Shaw. pri-