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facing Balala, by this means giving a pressure from the old
system sufficient to supply the people on the second and third
levels of the colony proper, who now cannot get water except
when no one of the sea-level has the faucets open. A large part
of the expense of this new system can be saved if cement pipes
are used in place of galvanized pipe for the portion of the line
not exposed to falling trees during the rainy season. A satisfactory cement pipe has been made in the colony, which with
slight modification will serve the purpose.
(9) A new toilet and laundry building should be constructed
at the quarantine station to replace the present midden-shed,
this should be connected with the proposed water line and will
not only save considerable labor in carrying fresh water into
quarantine from the colony above, but will reduce the nuisances
caused by the old shed.
(10) A new dwelling for the Filipino clerks, a duplicate of
the one recently finished, should be constructed so that the clerks
now living in the chief's old quarters may be given a safe house,
the chief's old quarters having been condemned as unsafe for
further use.
(11) A new lighter should be constructed to replace the one
condemned and destroyed, to transport building materials from
the lumber camps to the colony. At present the freight boat
belonging to the Culion Ice, Fish and Electric Company is being
used, to their inconvenience, since the boat is needed by them to
haul firewood for their plant.
(12) A new blacksmith and machine shop should be constructed to replace the present one in Balala, which is now actually tumbling down. This can be done at small expense with
a few barrels of cement for footings and a few harrigues, using
the present iron roof.
Subsistence.
Month. Employees' Filipino Leper Laborers'
mess. mess. mess. mess.
January.- -.... ---------- -- ---—.- P1, 100.19 P211.575;P26,726.061 P1, 625.64
Febuary ------------- -------- - 981.96 220.08 24,187.80 1,577.66
March. ----... — ---—....-. ----.- 1.054.00 251.10 27,249.434 1,910.592
April.-... --- —---------- ---- --------..._... 1,020.90 297.00 28,214.22 1,896.60
May. 1,023.00 231.725 29,304.734 1,938.74
June ------- 1,027.05 179. 55 29,053.08 1,958.10
July ---------— _ -— _ — _._ --- _- --- - 1-___- 1,085.00 160.425 31,398.381 1,368.96
August. — ----------- ----- -------- ------------ 965.34 203.67 33,486.572 1,194.12
September -- ----. --- —.. --- —- - ---—. --- —-.... 972.00 191.40 38,312.70 1,482.90
October - ------ -------------- -..-.. --- —... ----- 1,209.00 178.56 36,721.67 1,825.28
November - -- ------------------ -- -----— I 1.108.20 165.00 35,643.90 1,639.53
December --- --------------- ------------- 1,107.01 164.92 31.727.26 1.300.48
Total. --- —------------—.. --- —----------—. 12,653.65 | 2,455.00 1372,025.81 19,719.60