Note 3 — Chapter XVI · Health Conditions
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He had under him in the city of Manila a small but thoroughly trained body of twenty-four medical inspectors, of whom nineteen were Americans and five Filipinos. Profiting by his previous experience and that of his predecessors in the Philippine service, he inaugurated a campaign which practically terminated the epidemic in Manila on February 21, 1906,3 with a total of two hundred eighty-three cases and two hundred forty-three deaths.