Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-07-21


stct oi foreign affairs, Is also president " the
board of health and education, and temporarily
holds the office ~ attorney general Vet III
tie while agn, a. everybody knows, Mt ". a.
Z. Garter vas minister oi the interior and At
the same time president oi the board oi health,
attorney general al fHkfttm, and held, fot q
short while, The position VI minister of foreign
affairs. Now, what Is the difference between
the Crsarism " Mt Garter and that of Mt
Gihson} The statements oi our humptiuus
Wednesday contemporary would be outrageous
" they were not va ridiculous and amusing
Take the following sample Gle Mt Glib
son a. president Of the board of health, stands
to ,sry q wilmlly negligent officer before the
bar ul public opinion This he said in refer
cnee tu the neglect oi segregation Of lcpfosy.
The late president oi the buad ct health. Nj.
Armstrong, wasa particular friend Of this oppo.
sition editor. Mt Armstrong held office about
ten months, yet dHJftg MS ,Rfite fHsNmhsH,Je ei
sbi,s, hs aW net oH q HHCir msffiRg 9 hS
hcani ef bsaifh, g6f faHU 10 e. ttmotR nom
Mt Wtff of tff community, q HRgh ADt 10
r. tiidi ~ ht Astcifah anyiyfftti. And this
editor and his present political friends never
SAID one word about neglect at that time,
whereas the present president Of the board OF
health aud his colleagues have, dBtiHg the
aWs bf,tr8 OF ten months, called man meet
ings of the board VI health, Tor various consid
critions ui public health, and have removed
lrom the community fonr hHYHied and GiAeip-
81 cases OF lcprosy, fi,V hHHfItd ami fi0fHit-
toHy VI which have been sent to the settlement
at Molokni, fito kHji,{trd amt Fsc are now at
the branch hospital, foyD,6v have been dis
charged as mistaken eases, or as persons &c.
stored to comparatively sound and non.con-
tagious state or body, and tuenDejeHr have
died in hospital. Now, ol all these cases Of
lcprosy that have been taken by order OF this
president and his colleagues, and have been
removed from the community, net one was a
recent case as though developed within the
period OF their holding office, nat hat NAM
teiiiy hat me 6std5t fer ftt1ofs, sG'wng from
hgo ant D,tt 10 tan pfat5. huc,J0ne OF these
lepcrs ads in hf community, and ,eocgHi;ci
as tnri. toAu the I,ismh Of mis- outrageous
taiifpiRC otto0fiOH toot ia o6ice, ddpey.
hIft, roth instant
The "absmd contemporary mentioned
above is the Hawaiian Gazette. Its absurdity
consists in telling the truth. The truth is the
one thing the administration canno, stand 1t
is water to a mad dog ; it is the red rag to an
cnragcd bull. But il the administration hurdy-
gurdy had con,entcd itself with wailing from
It's broken strings, " in tangled dissonancc of
deep dissent" there would have been no OPP
portuniiy for digniicd reply But the extract
above printed is specific staemen, of what it
wishes the public to believe about the conduct
Of the gentlemen who composed the last adj
ministtation. Fortunately, the best answer To
that glnring fabrication is TO be found in the
official reports OF the last administration and
their accompanying statistics. To understand
the quotations which follow, it must be remcm.
bercd that the Fitch regime in Kakaako began
II October, 1881. King Kalakaua returned
from his European trip October aoth. MIR.
Armstrong, who had been absent with the
king, resumed charge of the attorney generals
office. Shortly thereafter, Mt IL. y. p. Cartei
left on the Portuguese mission, and MIR. Arm
strong became acting minister of the interior
and president OF the board Of health. Will,
he had charge, the Kakaako experiment wa'
clear by the following quotation from the re
port OF the president OF the board of health tC
the Hawaiian Legislative Assembly of 1882
made from the chapter on Branch Hospitals,
pages ~, ~ and 45 Of that report
| In October last, October, 1881 my pre-
deccSsor, Mr.. Carter, succeeded in ohtainin,
with the kind cooperation OF Her Roya
| Highness Liluokalani. lease OF premises n
kakaako, near Honolulu, upon which h
caused to he erected buildings, which shoul,
serve as branch hospitals. II was intendc,
| 81 ,haa, ,,tl,, h, eh.,,,
be placed in these buildings, until 1t wa
clearly decided whether they were or were no
lepers and, if it was finally decided that the
were, that they then should be removed L
Kalawao, in accordance with the well cstah
lished rules There had been complaint abou
rough treatment Of lepers, and that person
suspected to have the disease have been cruel
seized and removed to kalawao. by usin
this branch hospital, it was hoped that suc
complaints would be avoided. DIR. G.. l.
Fitch took charge OF this branch hospital. o.
account of his success a, the dispcnsary, larg
numbers Of lepers at once came TO the hos
pital.
Large numbers OF lepers at once came t
the hospital. If large numbers came, no,
his (Mr Armstrong'sl entire incumbency c
office he did not cause to be rcmove
from the midst Of the community single lepe
TO be placed in the hospitals anywhere" b
anything than falsehood, made out Of Who'll
cloth 1t is falsehood, and the responsible
editor of the Advertiser knows that it is
falsehood The report goes on to say:
1t (the branch hospi,al) contains at presen
ninety-two to2) patients. Not only the leper
of Honolulu, but those OF other islands, apple
for admission. The buildings were increase
as fast rs possible. When the epers foun
that they were not To he hurried away to kn
lawao, and they also believed that they woul
be cured by Doctor Fitch, they did not he's
tate to come forward. The result is tha
lepers are coming forward freely.
Now how little these official statement
agree with the organ grinding of the Advei
tiser Kakaako was begun in 1881. Tn
legislative report from which quotations ar
made was submitted to the Legislature in Apr
Of the following year 1t was written up I
the end Of March. About five months wcr
covered. In that time nineiy-two lepers wer
admitted to the new hospital. II they wer
detained there and not sent directly to Mole
kai, il was 10 give Doctor Fitch a fair chanc
TO establish cure Of leprosy. Does any on
believe that Mr.. Armstrong would have cor
tinued, for nearly two years, to uihc with III
life Of the whole community lie, him spca
for himself. We quote from the same chap,e
Of the same report:
The proper course to take in this matter
not clear. Instead Of using the branch ho
pial as originally intended. il is now bein
made a permanent leper settlement. Tho
who are incurablc are retained there. Non
arc sent to kalawao, except ior disobediens
I of ordcrs. This course IS permitted rather I
an experiment BY Doctor Fitch. II will resu
IN this. however, Il it is further pursued, that
great lcper settlement viii be built up nei
lIonolnlu. In The hospital and in the cit