For a year after we finished vaccinating the inhabitants of these provinces it did not cause a death among them; nor has it since caused such a death except among new-born children or newly arrived unvaccinated persons.
These extraordinary results have been achieved without the loss of a life or a limb so far as we know.

The vaccine used was prepared by our own Bureau of Science with extraordinary care, and has proved to be remarkably pure and active.
We at first endeavoured to have vaccinations performed by local Filipino health officers, but, after spending large sums without obtaining satisfactory results, gave up this plan and substituted therefor a method of procedure by which the work was carried on under the very immediate supervision of the director of health.

We then made substantial progress.

However, under the law as it at present stands, succeeding annual vaccination, intended to insure the immunization of children soon after they are born and of unvaccinated persons who may come into a given territory, are intrusted to the local Filipino authorities, with the result that in very many cases they are not attended to.

We get elaborate returns showing the number of persons vaccinated.