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20 | MARINE REVIEW AND MARINE RECORD. MARINE HOSPITAL SERVICE AT MANILA, The branch of the marine hospital service located at Manila has, during the past year, been one of the hardest-worked quaran- tine stations in the world. During the year 1902, more vessels were held in quarantine, more passengers detained and more pieces of baggage were disinfected at the station at Mariveles than at all the quarantine stations in the United States com- [Apr. 30, the marine service for several years. Prior to taking station at Manila he had been at the port of Hongkong, where during the bubonic plague epidemic of 1899 he inspected every vessel and passenger that left Hongkong for American ports. To his vigilance and painstaking care were due the fact that the dread disease did not obtain a firmer foothold than it did in Pacific coast ports in the United States. The Minnesota of the Great Northern Steamship Co. [Building by Eastern Ship Building Co , New London, Conn. From the Scientific Amervican.] bined. The quarantine service, then a separate organization, was transferred to the marine hospital service by executive order dated Jan. 4, 1900, and an officer of that service was detailed to serve as chief quarantine officer at the port of Manila and he ar- rived there from Hongkong on Jan. 12, 1900. 'The officer appoint- ed to safeguard the health of the inhabitants of the Philippines was Dr. J. C. Perry, a physician who had been connected with Previous to its transfer to the marine hospital service, the quarantine service had been conducted by the army. While in- coming vessels to Manila had been inspected ever since American occupation of the islands, yet, owing to the insurrection and the pressing need of every officer for other. duties, but little work was done, and the service was illy equipped for the treatment of in- fected vessels. Mariveles, the old Spanish quarantine station,