PLAGUE HOUSE, 1226 CALLE JUAN LUNA
The house is of bamboo and nipa construction and contained illegal basement rooms until a week ago. About 60 persons lived in this house which was once licensed as a tenement but which is unsanitary in a multitude of ways. Bamboo construction, overcrowding, dirty condition and absence of proper drainage, water-closet, proper kitchens and paved ground floors, together with bad ventilation, made it a dangerous habitation and the added condition of plague infection made it necessary to vacate and quarantine the building.
On May 15, at the daily inspection of contacts in the house 1226 C. Juan Luna, Filomena Suñga, aged nineteen, and a relative of the owner of the building, was found to be sick. Her only symptom was fever, but she was transferred to San Lazaro upon suspicion and promptly developed symptoms of plague. She died in a few days and the diagnosis of plague was verified at autopsy. The following order was issued:
Station "C," Tondo, Bureau of Health
Manila, P. I., May 15, 1913.
By order of the Director of Health, the house No. 1226 C. Juan Luna is declared infected and is quarantined this date, for Bubonic Plague. The house will be vacated and a policeman will register the names of all residents and the addresses to which they remove.
The residents may remove their personal effects but will not be permitted to return while the quarantine is in effect.
[Signed] T. W. Jackson,
Medical Inspector, Station "C," Tondo.