Indeed, several of them were killed.

Incredible tales were believed by the populace, with the result that cholera victims sometimes had to be taken to the hospital by force.

In later years it has been by no means unusual for them to come in voluntarily and request treatment.
General hospitals were in the old days regarded as places where people so unfortunate as to have no homes to die in might go to end their days.

It was almost impossible to get any other class of persons into them.
Now we constantly turn away deserving patients from the Philippine General Hospital because of lack of room.

The common people are flocking to it in rapidly increasing numbers.