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infection, there are no available data regarding the number
affected.
The prevention and control of intestinal parasitism in the
Philippines are based on these measures :
(1) Five-year programme for the improvement of human
excreta disposal in the provinces, municipalities and barrios ;
(2) Survey of parasite indices in the different localities
by microscopic examination of human stools for eggs and
larvae of parasites ;
(3) Treatment of the infected persons.
Against yaws, the preventive and control measures are :
(1) Reporting of all cases found by the health officer ;
(2) Segregation of cases, especially among school-children ;
(3) Treatment of all cases found ;
(4) Furnishing of medicines by the provincial and insular
Governments, the arsenical preparations being the most
preferred.
PLAGUE AND LOBAR PNEUMONIA.
Of these two diseases, plague has ceased to be a concern of
the local health office. Since September 14th, 1914, when the
last case of plague occurred in Manila, no other case has been
registered, although, before that time, it had been occurring
sporadically in the city, where more often than not the cases
terminated fatally. In the provinces, no record shows that the
disease has even been found there. The control of plague mainly
rests on (a) quarantine of ships coming to our ports, especially
of those coming from infected places ; the ships are disinfected
and fumigated, and the crews and passengers are kept on board
until they are thought to be free from infection ; (b) use
of rat-proof devices and rat-traps to prevent the rats
from coming to the shore ; (c) prohibition of the erection of
houses for residential purposes in the zone of the Manila
wharves ; and (d) rigid measures for the extermination of rats.
Unlike plague, lobar pneumonia has claimed more deaths
from year to year among the Filipinos, both urban and rural
residents, for the last twenty-five years. The death rate from