Note 10 — Chapter XVII · Baguio and the Benguet Road
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It has been very much the fashion for Filipino politicians to rail at Baguio, and now that the dangerous experiment of giving them control of both houses of the legislature is being made, they may refuse to appropriate the sums necessary to make possible the annual transfer of the insular government to that place. The result of such a bit of politics would be a marked increase in the present extraordinarily low death rate among government officers and employees, American and Filipino,10 beginning in about two years, when the cumulative effect of long residence in the lowlands makes itself felt.