He converted it into a healthy place the death rate of which compared favourably with that of European cities, thereby demonstrating conclusively what could be done even under very unfavourable conditions.

No troops in the islands were kept in anything like such physical condition as were the regiments assigned to him, and he bore a lasting grudge against any one inconsiderate enough to die in Jolo.
Everywhere I saw people dying of curable ailments.

Malaria was prevalent in many regions in which it was impossible to secure good quinine.

The stuff on sale usually consisted largely of cornstarch, or plaster of Paris.

Fortunately we had brought with us from the United States a great quantity of quinine and we made friends with the Filipinos in many a town by giving this drug gratis to their sick.
Smallpox was generally regarded as a necessary ailment of childhood.