The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-03-17

WE again touch upon the unwelcome
subject OF leprosy. No friend of the country
can desire to raise unnecessary discussion
about such q matter, but when adverse
parties are taking the utmost pains to pub
iish falsehOodS or most ingenious ~Xaggera
tons, it behOveS all well-wiSherS of the
country, especially those engaged in the
publication of news, to present for general
information all the news, and especially
correct news in respect to this question.
While we have much to deplore, we are
willing to lay the facts before the world,
feeling satisfied that they will not warrant
in the least the malicious and injurious
attacks made upon the country. We present
below a report of the leper.returns from the
districts of Wailuku, Waihee, MakdwaO,
aud U~lupalakua, of the island of Maui.
Now they have an area of about 300 square
miles, and contain a population of not less
thar 10, 900 souls. This IS the most densely
populated portion of the Kingdom, and. by
order of the Board of Health, thefo1ce
authorities of those districts have taken
pains to thoroughly search the country in
quest of lepers with n determination not to
leave one behind. We nave satisfactory
official assurance from Sheriff Everitt and
Deputies ChillingwOrth and Richardson,
that after a thorough ransack of those dis
tricts by the police of the island, every
known leper has been brought and placed
in the Branch Hospital. The whole num-
Der is t~wenty-eight natives, with not one
foreigner among the cases which were
cleaned out of this populOuS country and
the following is the report of those cases, as
prepared by the Government physician of
the district of Waikiki:
To THE Hon. BOARD OF HEALTH.
Gentlemen 1 nave the honor to report
the following as having been examined and
turned over to the Sheriff of Maui, to be
forwarded to Honolulu as lepers.
You will perceive my former report to
YOU concerning the number of lepers in this
district is not greatly at variance with the
number sent, and the work has been
thoroughly done.
There are among the number, to me, two
doubtful cases, but thought it best to for
ward them, as hospital treatment would
doubtless be of great benefit:
Kepaa, k, act 20. Case defined.
Naipueha, w. Doubtful.
Kahoa, X, act so Waikiki; ectrOpion.
Not defined.
Aoi, w, act IS; Waikiki Half Chinese.
Incipient stage.
KahoohuIi. k, act 20; Waihee; anesthesia.
Defined.
Puha, X, act %; waihee anesthesia.
Defined.
Namaka, W., act GO; Waihee; slight
ectropion. Defined.
Terry l." act 80, k, Waikapu slight
ectropion. Defined.
Mary Kiokio, W.. act II ; peculiar leprous
appearance of face, tendency to ectropion.
Defined.
KeIekoma, k, act 10 wailuku; anesthe-
STA. Defined.
Kauhi, k, act Is Wailuku; loss of eye
brows. Defined.
Mary Ann Koha, w, act 80 Wailuku,
anesthesia. Not defined.
"A, k, act 50 Waihee. Defined.
Nalikapu, W. Paeahu anesthesia both
arms. Defined.
Nalau, k, act So; Waihee ectropion.
Defined.
Kalua, w, act 10; Makeua ectropion,
aneStheSia. Defined.
KeliIi, k, act II; Waihee coutractions
Defined.
Luahu, w, act 50; Makena; facial en-
Iargcment; anesthesia. Defined.
Kiwaa, k, act %; Ulupalakua c%ontrac-
tons. Defined.
VIM. Enos, k, act 2S; Waikapu ane,the-
sia. Defined.
Eake, X, act 10 Wailuku partial de-
struction. Defined.
Pohaku, k, act 10 Waihee discOlOra-
ton bronzed skin. Defined.
Nekolohi, k, act 40 Waihee swollen
face, slight ~e'phantiasis of feet and legs.
Defined.
Puupuu, w, act 80, Waihei; defined.
Nalima Nui, u; act l6; HonokOhou;
auesthesia loss partial of eyebrows de-
fined.
Kahele, w, act IS, Wailuku; ames-
thesia; slight contractions defined.
Kaailuali, II, act so; Wailuku; &C.
Mfakanuenoe, W, act 20; Waihee;
marked III the face defined.
Very respectfully,
Your eden servant,
f. H. ENDERS, NJ. D.,
Govt Physician District of Waikiki.
March 9th, 1883.
TNoTF.-We omit details of diagnosis of
the doctor, reseTving them for 4 fuller and
more precise statement to be published by
the Board.