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The Philippines: Past and Present (vol. 1 of 2)

CHAPTER XVII
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This is manifested in many ways, and men, women and children who are not actually ill, seem to lose their energy, become listless, irritable, and forgetful, and find the least exertion burdensome.

This is much aggravated in the hot season, and very few individuals manage, without permanent mental and physical deterioration, to live through many hot seasons in the plains.
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There are in the Philippine Islands two places where relief from these conditions can be found:--( 1) Camp John Hay, near Baguio, in the mountain province of Benguet, Island of Luzon; and (2) Camp Keithley, in the Lake Lanao District of the Island of Mindanao.

Camp John Hay, in the province of Benguet, is in the mountains at an elevation of approximately 5000 feet and is 175 miles from Manila, most of which distance is covered by railroad.

Within 18 months it is expected that the railroad all the way to Baguio will be completed.
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