There was another sizable one on the Bagumbayan drive.

A third occupied a large building belonging to French sisters of charity which was ordinarily used for school purposes.
In immediate connection with the First Reserve Hospital was a tent hospital where sick and wounded Insurgents were being given the best of care.
Field hospitals were promptly established as the troops moved out from Manila, and in connection with many of these Filipinos were given much needed medical and surgical help.

The recipients of such kindly treatment were, however, prohibited by Insurgent officers from telling others of their experiences lest the hatred of Americans diminish as a result.
Smallpox had broken out among the Spanish soldiers in the walled city and was spreading badly when my friend, Major Frank S.Bourns of the army medical corps, was given the task of eradicating it, which he promptly accomplished.

A little later the use of the Santa Ana church as a smallpox hospital was authorized, and sick Filipinos were carefully tended there.
The army promptly set about cleaning up Manila and waging war upon the more serious ailments which threatened the health of the soldiers and that of the public.

The work was at the outset put under the direction of Major Edie, a very capable and efficient medical officer.