Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-03-12
MOSQUITOES IN
PHILIPPINES, TOO

One town In which every inhabitant
is suffering with malaria is one of the
explanations of the extent of the dis
case in Mindoro, according to men,
bers of the government medical and
scientific expedition which returned
this morning on the Rubi from a
weeks inspection of the property OF
the Mindoro Development Company
and the land adjoining it, says the Ma
Mia Weekly Times
The medical school, the bureau of
science, and the bureau of health uni
ted in the expedition, which was head
led by DR.. w. E. Musgraye. Other
members of the party we're Dr. Thos.
jackson of the bureau of health: DIR.
E. l. Walker, chief of the biological
laboratory of the bureau of science;
DR.. p. Gutierrez, instructor in medi-
cine in the college of medicine; DIR. A.
Vasquez, instructor in surgery, college
of medicine; DR.. G.. s. Banks, entomo-
logist, bureau. of science; Mr. Dahl
burg, geologist and topographer; DR..
F. l. Cox, bureau of health: DIR. r.
Conception, bureau of science; Mr..
Cana, chemist, bureau of science, and
A. GpZman, bureau of science.
To Times reporter who asked him
for an account of the trip, DR.. Mus
grave said:
THE sanitary problem on the Min
dorO estates is as large as was that
of the Panama canal zone and is more
complex. In Panama. everything was
subordinated to the building of a ca
nal; in Mindoro, they are attacking a
sanitary problem and cultiyating hum
dreds of acres at the same time.
Tremendous is an adjective that
fifty describes the problem It is so
big that people don't realize its diff
culties. The corporation has Soto 100
square miles of land bounded on one
side by the mountains where dwell a
wild people full of malaria and on the
other side by coast barrios whose in
sanitariness gave rise to the saying,
'Mindoro is the white mans grave
Still, the company is making good
progress, remarkably good progress.
On the used portion Of its land, the
is rare. so rare that a prize
of one chocolate for every ten caught
is offered in the hospital The nurse
there seldom has to give more than
two chocolates a day. showing how
we'll the number has been kept down
The malarial mosquito is practically
But constant vigilance is
necessary, rs in the mountains and
along the coast they thrive and emf
crate to the company's property.
'.The coast barrios of Mindoro must
IL - -,
300 years old but its population is the
same as it was three centuries ago. !
The reason is plain. The town is
built on swamp and every man, wo-
man and child in it has malaria. This
Town should be moved to a more sani-
Lary location and there are probably !
)ther settlements which should be 1
treated in similar fashion &
The results of the trip are to be EN-
bodied in a report to be made to the
secretary of the interior. While ma
aria was the chief disease aimed at
W the Investigators, they also looked
nto general health conditions. Tu-
IerculOsis they found slightly more
prevalent than in Manila; hookworm
vas found in 40 per cent of the peo-
DE examined, ratio smaller than in
some sections of the islands, larger
han in others.
The expenses of the trip were
,orne to large extent by the Min
loro Development Company and they
will reap most of the benefit of the f
Investigation made All the membersI
# the party expressed themselves as
leased with the progress already