MANILA, April 27, 1913. The premises 1364 Sande are hereby declared in Quarantine for Bubonic Plague by order of the Director of Health. The inmates will be permitted to leave the building and find quarters elsewhere, provided they leave their addresses with the policeman in charge, so that they may be readily found. They must remain in the District of Tondo. If they remain in the house they will be obliged to stay in the upper story of the house and will have to arrange for meals to be sent in. The barber shop and "platero" shop are hereby ordered closed until further orders. By order of the Director of Health. [Signed] T. W. JACKSON, _Medical Inspector, in Charge of Plague Suppression_. Memorandum reporting circumstance surrounding 2 cases of plague at 1226 C. Juan Luna (May 17, 1913): Valeriano Lausin, aged fourteen, Filipino male, Carmelo maker by trade but out of work at time he was taken sick, recently removed to this house from 917 C. Jaboneros where he had been employed. The patient fixes the date at about a week previous to his sickness, but the proprietors of 917 Jaboneros are positive in their statement that he left the place where he lived and worked, at least two weeks before. This boy recovered. The circumstances and especially the occurrence of a second case at 1226 C. Juan Luna, indicate that infection was incurred here. Moreover, this house is in the midst of a rat-plague infected district. [Illustration: 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.