The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1880-01-07

lee mortality reports Iately published by
the Beard CT HeaIth were prufesse4Iy offered
70 aIIay the alarm existing IN the community
ca account Of the prevailing fsverz- This
resulE may have been produced IN the careless
reader of these reports AZ lie accompanying
explanations, hut ri tEcse who carefully
weigh siis= import Of these figures, the state
ElenE brings increased anxiety The fgures
must be treated as they ara IN other countries
mere columns of figures standing alone cnn-
Tey little information ID the mind, any more
than the statement that Belgium has papu-
larI0u cf 1851 900, and Russia Of IS ,aGl 600,
bGt when We sheu that Belgium has 1876 per
zuns u the square mile and Russia 0uly 10,
We understand something Of the relative den
Efty Of the population Of the two countries
FTfty-seTen deaths for November, 1873, IN
population Of 400, gives IN ANIMAL death
rate Of ts IN |, 600, while the 4G Deaths in tie
first II days Of December, 1873. give IN
ANIMAL Death rate Of es IN 1000 L not this
a rapid and alarming increase IN the death
rate. The Il deaths from fever n December,
ISIS, give IN ANIMAL fever Death rate Of Il IN
Zoe; while the % deaths from fever IN the
first Il days Of December, 1879, give an
ana11I fever death r1ts Of g IN 600 We fail
q find comfort m these results
As CO the statement that our cftT has beer
until lzteIy, quite fGe Of disease, and deaths
infre4usnt,T We fad that for November Of
ISIS, the ANIMAL death rate was 40 N zoe.
and for December Ct the sane year "a IN
1000 In the weekly e1ifrf1u- of the LyasE5a
Tins for Oct1ber II, 1878, We find the f,I-
loving death rates to the thousand Of the
population reported for different cifies. made
Up from lats reE1rnEs Btightan Il; Ports
mouth Is: Birmingham Is. Lon,lou n. Efv-
erpoot 2Gs PhIlsdeIphi1 Is; BaItinErs Is /:
Brooklyn Il Calcutta IT; Bombay Sc: Paris
"a Berlin zs: Vienna ~: Rome IS: AIs1-
andria 4ds VIC have quoted thnse returns
showing the largest and the smallest rates.
and there Is nothing in the WfoIs Hst worse
thar the death rate Of Alexandria HeE does
HauolIl1 eDmpafz with these cities, sou1s az
them Of Hptsli unhealthy reputation; even
year ago deaths were more freqnenr here than
n AIeIzzdria last Fall, By more than 50 uer
cent
Il appsars Erun this showing that cur -itv
has absolutely lest IL healthy ch1rzrssr, how
long since, nsbedy Knows and nov nothing
viii rsazs1rs thz puhlie eLEept a very mate
rial rzd1c<Snn Of the death rate Heneefsrrh
the enun1nity VII wish 70 Be infornesi Of the
existing stzte 1f health and disease IN figures.
and viii be satisfied with nothing Tess than
weekly "a nauthly mortality rsports
A 70 the means b. which the health Of the
city i To be rsstnrssd, lJ1thing b1E thor0azn
work viii be adsqaate and we cann1t call
that sEteEpriss thsT11gh work, which removes
afzi fr1m cur h1Ezs-yzris and damEs it To
vi1dw1rd On the espIanffe, driving cItizeus
frum their ho1es IN the immediafe vicinity By
the elahorafe and death-deaIing smells deTes-
0Ped and Ilaneiled forth frs- this very eject
i've battz-y Of gases
UatII the cz1ses Of disease are removed. Ia
ocEazlonzl Cessation VIII depend UPON the
PrgTzienee 0f the trade Wlnis, and a. we car
not e5nPeI the trade winfs % bI0x, We lad
better make the best Of rznzesles under cur
morz iMme1lzfe confr0I