The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-10-03
HAWAIIAN LEPERS.

HAWAIIAN LtPERS.
Referring to the excitement caused
in San Francisco by the arrival OF a
leper from these islands, a gentle
man writes from the Coast as fol-
lows
''By extracts from the daily
papers l see that female leper
from the islands is creating a COM
motion. Strenuous efforts have been
made by the Chronicle and other
anti-treaty interests to induce the
Board of Health to quarantine all
vessels from the islands until it has
been successfully proven that there
is no leprosy on board. DR.. Mac
allister has been true blue and fought
this thing right along, and has
succeeded in fighting 1t down.
"Any vessel bringing leprous
passengers will be placed i'll quaran-
tine unless the captain or owners OF
said vessel give bonds to return the
patients whence they came. This is
a very satisfactory solution of the
question and it behooves the authori-
ties at the islands to exercise more
vigilance about the departure Of the
lepers.
In the case referred to, it was
known by the authorities here that
the leper was about to leave the
Kingdom, yet they remained in their
normal condition of undignified
silence.
The following extract from an
article in the Wasp bears upon the
same subject.
MIKE AND THE LEPERs.
GO OF all the sensations which the
Chronicle eyer endeavored to make,
that which it is now struggling to
create regarding the Sandwich Island
woman, said to be afflicted with
leprosy, Is the most absurd. A
moments consideration of the facts
will show this to any one. The
woman-who, if she is afflicted with
the disease at all, has it in a very
mild character-is endeavoring to
pass through the city on trip
around the world. This arouses the
Chronicle to vast headlines of pre-
tended Indignation and consterna-
ton. Not many months ago little
item appeared in the daily papers to
the effect that an express wagon,
loaded with sieteen loathsome
Chinese lepers, was driven through
the principal streets to the wharf OF
the Pacific Mail steamer, where they
embarked for China. The fact that
this city is so infested with Chinese
lepers-lepers, too, who are rotting
with the disease-that sixteen OF
them can be gathered up for single
shipment calls for no protest by the
Chronicle, yet it would have its
readers believe that the immediate
safety of the entire community is
endangered because one woman, said
to be leper, desires to pass through
the city. 1t is a fact which every
person in a position to know will
acknowledge, that Chinese lepers by
the score are living in this city un-
disturbed, rolling cigars which white
men smoke and washing linen for
hundreds of households. This the
Chronicle does not consider to be OF
sufficient Importance to even notice,
except casually, when a wagon load
of the lepers, too diseased to be OF
further service in laundry or factory
are shipped to China to die. That
the Chronicle then, knowing these
facts, should assume such a startled
and Mortified mien, when informed
of the case of the Sandwich Islano
women, is simply ridiculous, yet
perfectly understood. 1t is because
the woman comes from the Sandwich
Islands til at that sheet is so much
more alarmed at the prospect of he
passing through the city than it eve
has been over the continued eXis
tence in the city of scores of Chimes
lepers. The extent the Chronicl
carries its insane zeal on behalf o
the eastern sugar refiuers, who hav
subsidized it to attack San Fran
cisco commerce with the islands
would possess every element OF
first-class joke did 1t not seriousl,
affect the business interest OF thi