The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-06-09

enthusiastic cheers of welcome. The OBJ
Ject OF the visit was TO make an inspection
OF certain persons who had been condemned
as lepers, but were now pronounced either
as cured or in an unquestiOned non-con-
tagious state. Mr.. William Sumner, n half
caste, and well known TO the native people
by the name of keolaloa, was infinitely
inspected, and not a vestige OF any disease
to be observed upon his body. Another
case, sam Kamoahakau, a resident of
Lahaina, well known in this city, was
placed in the Hospital about eight months
ago, when he presented n very pitable APP
pearance with swollen and distorted face
and many suppurating sores, n on this
occasion he did not present on his person
the appearance of a spot or haw OF any KIDD
as an indication of disease. And there were
seven others, making nine in all submitted
Tor critical examination by the Board, ana
declared in their opinion to be oundi in
body and free from any contagious disease
whatever, and were ordered TO be dis
charged. And the President and members
of the Board, acting upon the meuIcal
opinion glven and the evidence before them
of a sound condition of body, signed a GER
ttficate of discharge. And these nine late
patients of the Hospital went forth rejoic-
ing. At the same time there were others
TO the number of sixty selected as either
incurable or in such condition that they
ought to be drafted out and sent TO the
Leper Settlement at MolOkai. These leave
the Branch Hospital to proceed thence to-
day on the steamer Mokolii. Thus the
Branch Hospital is fulfilling the object of
its establishment, receiving suspected
lepers, who are. if confirmed, sent to the
place of segregation on Molokai. or, If re-
stored TO health. discharged. Sad To think
that in times past many a one may have
been suspected of Leprosy, torn away from
home and sent to the general hospital 1T
Molokai TO consort with a mass of incura-
bles without q hope of restoration. All this
has been happily changed, and those who
.Is-I- tIor ora -, fEarars af thu AiSnoG "a nT
Ieprosy among the native people now readily
come forward and desire to be treated at the
Branch Hospital.
The President of the Board of Health,
addressing the lepers on this occasion, said
that 1.-The King, their father, who came to
visit them his day, felt an interest in their
condition that was not second 10 any other
i'm his Kingdom. lie felt to-day like the
rejoicing shepherd who reioiced over one
of his flock, supposed to be lost and restored,
more than over nInety-nine we'll ones.'
He said, His Majesty's Government are
anxious about you:-and other pressing in
terests of the Kingdom having reference to
its production, its and important
political interests would not lead them to
neglect in the least the care of the unfortu-
nate sick.O "YOu see,'' he remarked,
b" there is no prison here, but a home. You
have had your wants attended to in every
way, and" he said, speaking for his col
leagues as we'll as himself, "il was a labor
of love to try and save Them He hoped
to see here soon skilled physicians, who
would make a close scientific study OF the
disease with which they were afflicted
He ~"enjoined upon them to implicitly
obey the instructions and directions of their
physician, DR.. Fitch" His Majesty and
members of the Board were greeted with
enthusiastic demonstrations of applause on
leaving the Hospital grounds. There was a
large assemblage of people outside the
Hospital enclosure, many of whom had
come to rejoice over some discharged
natlent.