Many of the filthy surface wells of the city were filled as rapidly as possible, and those that could not be filled were closed.
The people, entirely unaccustomed as they were to any sanitary restrictions, believing that the disease was not cholera, and firm in their conviction that they had a right to do whatever they liked so long as they kept on their own premises, bitterly resented the burning or disinfection of their houses and effects, and the restriction of their liberty to go and come as they pleased, and in spite of the fact that the number of cases was kept down in a manner never before dreamed of at Manila, there arose an increasingly bitter feeling of hostility toward the work of the board of health.

In fact, the very success of the campaign proved an obstacle, and we were assured that the disease could not be cholera, as, if it were, there would be a thousand deaths a day! An educational campaign was immediately begun, and simple directions for avoiding infection were published and scattered broadcast.

Distilled water was furnished gratis to all who would drink it, stations for its distribution being established through the city and supplemented by large water wagons driven through the streets.

The sale of foods likely to convey the disease was prohibited.

Large numbers of emergency sanitary inspectors were immediately appointed, and every effort was made to detect all cases as soon as possible.