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CHOLERA SPREADING WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE.

215 CASES WITH 129 DEATHS QUESTION RENEWED IN NEW

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SUSPICIOUS CASES. IN MANILA.

REDUCING VOTING AGE.

Manila, June 21,

Manila, June 23. Proof that the Philippine health For the purpose of encouraging service is not at all sure whether Filipino youth and Filipino women cholera has already, hit. Manila, as to participate actively in public reported by The Herald some days affairs. Representative Eugenio ago, or not, was Director Fajardo's Perez of Pangasinan this morning action this morning in ordering filed a bill reducing the

age autopsy of the bodies of some 10 qualification of voters and grant- city residents who died during the tag Filipino women the right to last few days of so-called acute vote. stompch attacks. Dr. Eugenio The bill seeks to amend the pre- Hernando, chief of the, division of sent law by granting the voters the metropolitan sanitation has drawn right to vote at the age of 18, up for the director a list of those instead of 21 as now required. reported to have died after two or three days stomach illness.

This measure it was explained, will be resorted to in view of the extraordinary number of cases and deaths from various stomach trou- bles in Manila this week and the comparatively short periods before death occurs all of which signs paint to the great probability that they are cholera cases. Although the clinical diagnosis show that they are not cholern, Dr. Fajardo has ordered that this fact be established beyond reasonable doubt by conducting post-mortem examinations.

Likewise the bill entitles every woman who is not a citizen or sub- ject of a foreign power, eighteen years of age or over, who shall have been a resident of the Philip pines for one year and of the muni cipality in which she shall offer to vote for six months next pre- ceding the day of voting, to vote in all elections if comprised with in either of the following thres classes:

moro

(a) Those who have completed high at least the secondary or school course or its equivalent. (b) Those who own real

pro- In the meantime, a large

scale perty to the value of five hundred inoculation of residents will be pesos, declared in their name for undertaken by local health service taxation purposes for a period of men. Dr. Fajardo has issued a

not less than one year prior to the general notice to the residents to date of the election, or who an present themselves for vaccination nually pay thirty pesos or at the nearest health station in of the established taxes, Manila og at the central office in Intramuros. The bureau of science will be requested to furnish regular Aupplies of anti-cholera vaccines. Dr. Fajardo has already asked for "Provided however, that, the data on the amount the bureau of right to vote herein granted to any selence can put out every day to such female person shall not in- enable the service to plan its clude the privilege to run as a can. didate for and to hold any elective position in the Philippine govern ment."

inoculation drive in Manila.

"(c) Those who are or have been regularly and permanently em Ployed in the Philippine Civil service.

Governor General Davis and all members of his party were inocu- lated with anti-cholera vaccine last

The question of women suffrage night shortly before the Apo left in the Philippines was amply dia- for 211 unannounced destination. cussed in the past legislatures, The chief executive indicated laat Governors Harrison and Wood in night that a general inoculation of their messages to the past Legis all the inhabitants of the islands fatures strongly recommended the of a bill granting - the should be pushed through to prevent passage

right of suffrage to the women of the spread of cholera.

the

Philippines. Philippines Herald.

June 23. Hard-pressed by the demands for anti-cholera vaccine from different

Sir John Simon's return to active points in the Islands. the bureau of science director was constrained to practice in the Law Courts recalls

CONVICT ESCAPES. lower deck. Before entering the These reports are considered ex-re-enforce the staff to technicians at a story which went the legal and room, Private Pedroso, the priceedingly conservative since it is the Alabang. experimental where political rounds at the time he was about to start on his first visit to calculated that only one-fifth of the vaccines are manufactured. Director

India. cases of influenza and dysentery Brown of science this morning sent are reported to the health service Dr. Numeriano Binteres, technician that some of the leaders at the A friend ventured the opinion: by hospitals and private phy- at the

the central bureau,, to

Bar would not have cause to regret sicians.

| Alabang station to help,

on personal

PRISONER FOOLS GUARDS

JUMPING SHIP.

15-MILE SWIM OR DEATH.

soner's guard, told constabulary investigators last night, Majllon IN requested that his hand and foot taken cuffs be

off. Private Pedroso said he asked Private Crecensie Sison, another guard for the keys and uncuffed the pri-

soner's hands and feet.

The present dysentery epidemic The bureau of science for the frat his absence save is taken as one of the various in-time in many years is receiving the grounds.

"No," mused Sir John, "I think

dications that a cholera outbreak biggest order for cholera vaccine

sea.

Majilon went into the wash is imminent in the city. Numerous from different private companies you may say "There'll be no moan- room. After several minutes had Intestinal ailments are also caua- and city physicians, bureau of ing at the Bar when I put out to elapsed, Private Pedroso sald, he ing some concern in Manila. science officials said this noón. opened the door and saw the prl-

The Influenza, although of No less than 98 bottles of pure soner jump through a porthole. a highly contagious character, cholera vaccine were ordered in less The soldier further said he jump-la being blamed оп the than six days following the raport ed

has its of the cholera raging in the Visayas. most This total does not include the the supply for the Philippine health per service which numbers more than

140 bottles a month.

Manila, June 20. After failing in two previous attempts, Palawano Majilon, alias Makilan. 50 years old, a baby killer who was being taken to Bilibid to serve a term of more for the escaping prisoner season. The disease than 18 years, gained either but was too late.

serious complications, the liberty or death on Wednesday He got his rifle and aimed it, dangerous of which is night after staging a spectacular but it was too dark to see. Pri pneumonia which has a 50 dash for freedom by jumping vate Pedroso issued an alarm, to

cent. chance of mortality. from on board the a.s. Don Juan'which the captain responded by 0.

topping his ship. The boat's, launch was lowered, as also were all available boata, with all the members of the crew joining in the search.

Searchlights Used.

The steamship was about 15 miles from the Apo Island Eight- house when the aged prisoner jumped through a port hole, into possible death either by drowning or sharks. Constabulary Inver The big searchlights of the tigation conducted. Inst night ship were used, but no signs of when the ship arrived revealed the escaped Convict could Be that Majilon made his get-away seen. After about two hours' at about 8.30 o'clock on Wednesday search, the ship cootinued its trip Light.

to Manila.

The "u" has taken a strong The big demand for vaccine has foothold in the bureau of posts prompted the bureau of science to premises having a long list of order by cable a big shipment of about 20 "victima" headed by Jose special bottles from a Philadelphia Pilapil, acting superintendent of company to be used as containers the Manila post office, and inspect for pure cholera vaccine. or Navarro of the administrative Vigorous control of the waste division.

disposal of rural communities in the The work in the Manila post Islanda, particularly in those places office is handicapped as a result of where cholera worked havoc during the appearance of the disease. the epidemic of 1925 has been or- Besides Mr. Pilapil, there are dared by Dr. Jacobo Fajardo, direc- several minor employees most of tor of health, as one of the prin them letter carriers who are suffer-cipal measures of controlling the ating from the disease. The other present cholera epidemic, and pre

divisions affected are telegraph venting its spread to other regions and the mailing section-Philip in the Islands. pines Herald.

Moro Asman, the other prison- er, was admitted at Bilibid about 10 a'clock last night,

Search Organised. Private Hilario Pedroso, the escaped convict's guard on board the ship, Immediately put in an

Majilon was sentenced by the court of first Instance of Palawan alarm. The captain of the Don

on June for infanticide and Juan O stopped the ship and or

for attempt at resisting author- ganised a search for the prison-ity. Previous to last Wednesday, he tried to escape on two other

CT.

The ship's launch and several

boats were lowered and search-occasions. Shortly before sailing, he attempted to escape by knock-

lights were used, but two hoursing down his constabulary guard of minute searching failed to Brooks Point.

locate the man. Unless attacked by

He hit his guard and was run aharks, Majilon is believed stillning away when the guard final. alive. He is known to be a won-ly stood up and fired several derful swimmer and may have headed for the lighthouse, the shots into the air. The shooting large crowd him-Manila

GAINING GROUND.

neatest land from where he jump finally

was heard, and a

captured ed, 15 miles away".

Bulletin, At the end of two hours, when all offorts which had been exert- ed to locate the escaped prison-: er failed, the ship's captain Issu ed orders to continue the trip to. Manila. The ship docked at the Pasig River, Magallanes Landing, shortly before 7 o'clock last night. Mafilen and another prisoner, Moro Asman, were being taken to Manila, to enter Bilibid after having been sentenced by the court of first. Instance of Fala wan. The 8.8. Don Juan O left Puerto Princess at about 4 mm last Sunday

DYSENTERY AND INFLUENZA IN MANILA.

HandsUincuffed.

The two prisoners were under. the guard of three constabulary soldiers, on the upper deck of the ship. - On ** Wednesday night Majlion requested his guard to be taken to the wark room on the

Manila, June 28. vice is concentrating its efforts if While the Philippine health ser warding off the cholera menace, health records of the past few days show that influenza and dysentery In the city have already assumed epidemic proportions,

During the last week, 71 casos. of infinite were registered in ́ ́average of 10 a day, riod, dysentery re

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LOVER REPULSED.

MOTHER KILLED AND GIRLS INJURED.

Manila, June 23.

A gruesome crime perpetrated in Barrio Polo, New Washington, Capiz, in which a passion-blinded man killed a woman and brutally bolood two girls, has just been re- ported to the Constabulary/A

Fortunato de la Cruz of Polo proposed Illicit love to Agapita Salvador, which the girl persist- ently refused. On June 2 at 6 p.m. Fortunato went to the girl to force her at the point of the bolo.

Abadesa Salvador, Agapita's sister, and Merenciana Laureate, mother of the two girls, repulsed Fortunato The Inva hacked them with a bolo righ and, left, killing the mother, and wounding the two girls seriously Philip

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