More than twenty miles of such creeks have been cleaned out, although much still remains to be done to put them in really satisfactory condition.
There were no regulations covering the construction of buildings, and it was not unusual to find six or eight persons sleeping in a closed and unventilated room 10 x 8 x 8 feet.

Manila now has an excellent sanitary code, and such conditions have been made unlawful.
The previous woeful lack of hospital facilities has been effectively remedied.

At a cost of approximately a million and quarter pesos we have built and equipped the great Philippine General Hospital, one of the most modern institutions of its kind in the world, and by far the best in the Far East.

In it we have very satisfactorily solved the question of getting sufficient light and air in the tropics without getting excessive heat.

Its buildings are certainly among the very coolest in the city of Manila, and "the hospital smell" is everywhere conspicuously absent.
It is called a three-hundred-bed institution, but as a matter of fact the ventilation is so admirable that nearly two hundred additional beds can safely be put in as an emergency measure.
Two hundred and twenty of its beds are free.