Native Filipino Research Articles

The Participation of Native Filipinos in the Liturgical Celebration of Sundays and Holy Days in Franciscan Pueblos

The Participation of Native Filipinos in the Liturgical Celebration of Sundays and Holy Days in Franciscan Pueblos

The New Order of Worship for Native Filipinos

The New Order of Worship for Native Filipinos

The Inquilinos of Cavite: A Social Class in Nineteenth-Century Philippines

Studies about Philippine colonial class structure are singularly scant. With the exception of Scott's work on the sixteenth century, no effort has yet been made to shed light upon the problem of how Philippine society had been stratified during the long span of the Spanish and American regimes. This paper tries to describe and analyze the manner in which a segment of nineteenth-century Philippine society was structured, and offers a conceptualization of what constituted a provincial “social class” at the time by looking at the role of the inquilino (leaseholders of agricultural land) in Caviteño society. Specifically, it (a) rejects the idea that native Filipino society was composed of only two social strata: a tiny upper stratum and a mass of uniformly poor population; (b) and implies that the native class structure was far from having been static during the Spanish regime. Due to limitations in the sources, no attempt has been made to trace in an evolutionary manner the development of the inquilinos as a social class. The study deals mainly with the Dominican hacienda town of Naic, although less detailed information on other municipalities like Imus, Bacoor, Kawit, Santa Cruz de Malabon, and San Francisco de Malabon suggest the existence of similar conditions that could have fostered the development of an intermediate social class composed largely of inquilinos.

REPORT OF TWO CASES OF TYPHOID FEVER, WITH PERFORATION AND OPERATION.

A mild epidemic of typhoid fever occurred in this mountain settlement during the dry season just passed. There were seven cases in all, five of the patients being members of a gang of Japanese carpenters who lived on the lower floor of the servants' barracks of the Civil Government Sanitarium. The upper floor was occupied by Chinese and by native Filipino servants, but no case of typhoid occurred in the building, besides the five Japanese. The origin of the infection of the carpenters is uncertain, but it is probable that the first patient contracted the disease in one of the neighboring road-camps and that the flies, of which there was a plague during the dry months, carried the infection from his dejecta to the food of his companions. A general infection of the water or food supply of the neighborhood doubtless would have affected a larger proportion of the forty