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

CHAPTER XVII
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To experience Baguio and to see the rapid improvement of visitors there is to be convinced that it is a delightful and beneficial climate.

To appreciate the full degree of its delights it is only necessary to compare in one's own experience (not in weather reports) a hot season in Manila and one there.

To appreciate its benefits it is necessary to compare in one's own experience (not in statistics) the appearance of health of the people seen at the two times and places.

As recent work on beri-beri has clearly shown the vast importance in diet of substances formerly not known to have any importance, so, I think, are the factors in climate not to be recorded by wind gauges, thermometers or other meteorological instruments, and factors in health and efficiency not recorded in books on physiology, bacteriology, pathology or health statistics." Let no one think that the summer capital of the Philippines has been built solely for the benefit of Americans.

The Filipinos need it almost as much as we do, and many of them profit by the change with extraordinary promptness.
It is really almost incredible that such a place should exist within eight hours' travel of Manila, and every possible victim of tuberculosis in the islands, which means every inhabitant of the lowlands, has a right to demand that it should be made, and kept, readily accessible.


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