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Worcester, Dean C.

"The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 1 of 2)"

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[487] No data for 1906 available.
[488] Eight passed last year.
[489] He now receives $9000.
[490] Male servant.
[491] Two weeks at Christmas and ten weeks in April, May and June.
[492] Blount, p. 425.
[493] Blount, p.430.
[494] Native dugouts.
[495] See p. 998.
[496] Female servant.
[497] Men appointed to assist the judge in deciding questions of
fact. Their decision is not binding on him.
[498] Here [_i.e._ in me] you have a new servant.
[499] Malaria.
[500] A strong alcoholic drink commonly made by diluting low-grade
alcohol with water and flavouring it.
[501] There was one stray case in March.
[502] "To the Editor of El Soberania Nacional, Manila, P.I.
"_Sir_: In your issue of the 7th of July there appeared a paragraph
embodying a shameful libel of the administration of the San Lazaro
Hospital, which reads as follows:
"'_Un cuadro verdaderamente aterrador es el que prezenta el patio del
Hospital de San Lazaro. Los fallecidos por la enfermedad del colera,
son expuestos desnudos en el atrio de dicho Hospital con un cartel
atado en los pies con la inscripcion de sus respectivos nombres._'
"This statement was so grossly and ridiculously false and at the same
time so extremely harmful in its effect as to bring you fairly and
squarely within the reach of the law.


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