The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-01-30

Fat ai. i CONSISTS az :. roc
F~sr'aton OF go square miles.
by prisoners who are engaged N
MISUNDERSTANDING and farming. T,n,s.
c'iiNlctS govern themselves tn. o,fv
tineTicahS connected with them are
lfeir superintendent. NJ. &. Lamb
ana an agricultural cNper, brourh, IN
70 taach them - farm. The elect
tiitlf own officers n make their own
laws. Ih"H haNc jury trials IN which
the Vote Of the ~,najorit, ron.tc,s al
lhoush the superintendent has the
right OF Veto. Such Of tn. c0ny,cts
"5 break the laws may be logged
or sen, back 10 Bilihid. The con,ic,.
can marry il they wish and they may
brlng their wives and families 10
i've with them. There ar. now fnrty-
TWO women III the colony. and six
year.
Each Of these convict farmers b.s
ms own sep.late holding. He docs his
WORK on the shares. half Of the crop
gong 10 the prison and the other
half 70 him. The c~olonis,s raise their
own meat. They have beef cattle,
consisting OF crosses between native
COWS and Indian bulls. They have
also q fishery.
The colony Is now going into cocoa
nut raising and it HIS already Sc, out
$4,000 trees. This VIII not ONLY rem
ucr II self-supportlnc. but will enable
It to turn in a sreat deal of money
10 the support of other prisons on the
islands.
General Edwards tells me OF a visit
he paid last Year to IWahiE. He vas
ro"ed from his snip to the shore by
a murderer, and he found n couple
OK murderers acting as the family
servants OF the governor. Mrs. Lamb
~ the only American woman on tho
island and she has two little children.
liti cook is Il convict.
The Health of a Nation,
\ .reat dcal OF Uncle Sans work
has had TO do with the health Of the
philippines. The islands are being
cleaned up and the cities worked
over. Manila has new sewers which
cost about two million dollars, and it
has a water supply brought in from
the head waters Of the Marisuina
river, which are held back by a dam
sixty feet high. h reservoir there
contains hundreds Of millions of gall
Ions, and 1t is fed by a wild noun
tainous region where the water Is
pure.
The mosquitoes are being cleaned
out OF Manila and otherwhere. The
canals have been dredged and the
meats filled up, and parks have AIKEN
their places. New hospitals have been
JUN, anu LIlS Is so IN most OF the
cities. not only for the Christians, but
for the wild men as we'll. We have
doctors connected with the leading
tribes. and the avage instead OF
making sacrifices to pacify the spirits
OF disease, are now coming in for
castor Oil, liver pills and surgical
treatment.
A Campaign OF Health Education.
A campaign Of health instruction
has been undertaken, and doctors are
going about with lantern slide lee
lures showing the dangers Of disease
n how to prevent it. Hygiene Is
taught in the public schools. There
are training schools Tor nurses. and
a hospital for the insane, which now
has 500 inmates.
There has been q. great fight against
cholera. and the rats have been
slaughtered to wipe out the bubonic
plague. The bone piles OF the cene-
teries have been taken away and the
dead are now buried according TO
law.
The islands have an anti-tuber-
culosis society, which is waging q war
against consumption. This institution
a the aid OF the government and
it will establish tuberculosis camps
and will teach the people how to take
care OF such patients. The bureau
Of agriculture on the islands proposes
to kill all animals which have tuber-
culosis, and a quarantine has been in
stituted against the importation Of dis
eased cattle from Australia.
a great deal has been said about
the health Of Americans In the Philip
pines. Uncle sam is keeping track
Of that matter and the death ratio
is now less than six to the thousand.
which is not One-half as high rs that
Of our best American cities.
The 1Rper Colony.
In connection with health ! must
tell You what they are doing with
the lepers. There are now two or
three thousand Of them in the islands.
and h most Of these have been
gathered into u colony situated at
tulion. This is q little island, which
is beautiful, healthy and fertile. Tho
colony governs itself. eiecting its
own officers and making its own mu.