Such enforcement has been comparatively easy as the officials concerned are not hampered by politics.

The Philippines were at one time a dumping-ground for products that could not be sold elsewhere, but it is now possible for Filipinos to obtain wholesome preserved foods and unadulterated drugs, except in very remote places where none of any sort are available.
The cost of our medical and sanitary work has been comparatively small.

The per capita rate of taxation here is lower than in any other civilized country.

What we have done has been accomplished without spending vast sums of money or resorting to military measures.
The results obtained are very largely due to the faithfulness and efficiency of Dr.Victor G.Heiser, who was chief quarantine officer of the Philippines when he succeeded Major E.C.Carter as commissioner of public health on April 5, 1905, and was later made director of health when the original board of health was abolished as an administrative entity.

He has continued to hold the office of chief quarantine officer, and thus has been in complete executive control of the health situation for eight years.
Through good report and ill, mostly ill, he has given unsparingly of his time, his skill and his wisdom, always treating the government money as if it were his own.
His tenure of office has been long enough to enable him to inaugurate and carry out policies, and thus get results.
Seldom, if ever, have health officials been more viciously and persistently attacked than have Dr.Heiser and myself.