In other words, conditions inside the jail were quite similar to those then prevailing outside, except that the prisoners got polished rice which was given them with the best intentions in the world, and was by them considered a superior article of food.
With the present knowledge of the methods of dissemination of Asiatic cholera gained as a result of the American occupation of the Philippines, we should probably be able to exclude it from a jail under such circumstances, as the part played by "germ carriers" who show no outward manifestations of infection is now understood, but it was not then dreamed of.

One of the greatest reforms effected by Americans in the Philippines is the sanitation of the jails and penitentiaries, and we cannot be fairly blamed for not knowing in 1903 what nobody then knew.
The troubles in Albay ended with the surrender of Ola on September 25, 1903.

Blount gives the impression that he had a knowledge of them which was gained by personal observation.

He arrived in the province in the middle of November, seven weeks after normal conditions had been reestablished.
On October 5, 1903, General Bandholtz telegraphed with reference to the final surrender of Ola's band:-- "The towns are splitting themselves wide open celebrating pacification and Ramon Santos (later elected governor) is going to give a record-breaking fiesta at Ligao.

Everybody invited.