Then comes an outbreak of smallpox, and on investigation we learn that the vaccinations so fully reported were made on paper only! In other words, the continuance of this work, of such vital importance to the Filipino people, is still directly dependent upon continued control by American health officers.
Another great problem now in a fair way to final solution is the eradication of leprosy.

At the outset we were told by the church authorities that there were thirty thousand lepers in the islands.

In 1905 we began to isolate and care for all supposed victims of this disease, only to find that many outcasts believed to be suffering from it were really afflicted with curable ailments.

We were able to restore a very large number of them to society, to their great joy and that of their friends.
A few hundreds of true lepers were being humanely cared for in Manila and elsewhere.

Many others had been driven out of the towns into forests or waste places on the larger islands, where they were perishing miserably from fever and other diseases.