No man can do his best work, either physical or mental, if he is hot and uncomfortable.

The same feeling of lassitude and indisposition to exertion is experienced at home during the hot summer, which after a few years here becomes chronic." "It is a matter of official recognition that government employees need to get away from the heat of Manila each year, hence the removal to Baguio.
"It is likewise commonly recognized that many women and children become so run down and debilitated as to need to go to Japan, Baguio or the United States.
"It is often true that monotony and discomfort are the cause of nervous and mental breakdown, witness the often-mentioned insanity among farmers' wives and the nervous breakdowns attributable to pain and strain, even though it be, as in many cases of eyestrain, so slight as not to be recognized by the patient." In short, it is the monotony of a tropical lowland climate which makes an occasional change so imperatively necessary.

Shall residents of the Philippines be forced to seek that change, at great expense of time and money, in Japan, the United States or Europe, or shall we make and keep available for them a region which admirably answers the purpose, distant only half a day's travel from Manila?
I give extracts from a memorandum of Col.

William H.Arthur, Department Surgeon of the Philippines, which are important in this connection:-- "3.

Experience has shown that long residence in the Philippines has a marked effect on the mental and physical vigour of people not born and raised in the tropics.