The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-11-14
n GERTRUDE
correspondent
81, Nall Gazette

n Correspondence
Pill Nall Gazette
hollow the interview
Dr.. Lutz and a CORE
,Ls Pail Mall Gazette
5. I'd fail to be of in,
' ..dsrs. The first part
&C. which describes a
70 ''', through Honolulu, is
,,,, had gone away with
La! ~ W. we're to be sent by
6 Ilst that morning. [
pow o. tell me something
~ since she left England
,lain 33 anti ~ she ex-
o1rs I'LL | suppose that is
'n We more like six years.
5t through 50 much since l
.s.,si 50 much,n' | added.
l7 sSons. y she said, looking
L Iia[d6w while she spoke,
y, eyes on the bread tree,
3a M not wish me to see
,lf 10 guess what she was
i' e5me here I found | had
lto said. slowly. 81 will
' eevyampIe. A lady who is
y Honolulu, and who was
.n ~ that brought me here,
-l rport that L had been in
tdking mOrphia in Eng
/. story spread all over the
+ Init one of the untruths
h. people who did not
i.rs, and who tried to pre-
sanders against me-"
an explain why the people
not wish you to nurse the
asked. " Well, they
natl was a reproach to them.
A Why do you come to
r,duty? Cannot we look
.rn lepers p l was at the
Hospital for some time after
The one outside the harbor
s-g4rs are sent to it to be in
s4tbe doctors, whose duty it
Eide whether they have
While | was there only one
ady came to see me, the
|er afraid; yet they tried to
|Fork. Then [ went to Molo-
,bprp I saw no educated
n except DR.. Lutz, who came
rIs hospital duties. l nursed
M with the help of those
.FhOcOuld give me assistance.
rss I had as many as sixty to
n. But l was happy, and
sdvas to go on with the task
myself"
you tell me why you left the
.stNOlOkoi?n ~ would rather
d not want to arouse angry
here; and every word that I
Be Pail Mall Gazette will be
j for the paper circulates
in Honolulu, and is read all
sandwich Islands. [ do not
make enemies. The natives
.miwe stay on here in the
-9mething may yet be done
.le lepers. The hospital at
Sshut up, and there is only
urinary now for the poor
j The boys and girls are well
liter in a home managed by
.lic Sisters, but the grown
I suffer very much. There
Bpe that q hospital may be
.ar, in Honolulu, to treat
b have just contracted the
The natives wish this; and
lTeS are on the Board OF
Il this is done, DIR. Lut2
ttle post of superintendent,
Anurse his patients"
Mfeel sanguine about this ?''
y very. The natives are the
no suffer, and they are weak,
lCh American or German
~ and was cured, the hos
I'D be founded at once. But
'Dr. Lutz has cured are poor
people who have neither
u intiuence.n
you have seen some cases
-"Oh, yes. If leprosy is
tlme, much can be done tC
Out If it goes on for years
a! u it is hopeless. The
II Is that the mOneyed lepers
70 70 hide the disease and so il
III over the islands. Directly
Known to be diseased they
u. IOlOkai. They dread this
ID death, and they manage
long time before they arr
70 be lepers. There is M
1T1pe for those who go to Mo
jewellers visit the island
, II lovely; and such people
laFm, for they give sucl
= accounts e u of the place that
" ialI to realize the terribl,
u {! OF the leper. I though
y IKE Paradise when I cam,
y; y out nature is not all tina
pg' Friends and association
% Us than all the glories o
,6 SQ one has any idea of tn,
! mat enters the soul of a maj
h, hnoWs that he is a leper
l. a'!atlOns and friends shul
D.. ~ an Outcast. The beau
Da'ufe are a bitter mocker,
,l . man, and he curses tn
r'anu Which is his prison."
EL a;a;y' Iepers commit suicid
as'' :, l asked.-''Not the ma
VI ~. they are towards. On
Ooh his own life while I wa
X; you think that Ieprosy i
h + IN n, the islands?n-6Un
JioIoiLlh!e fact that lepers ar
' = Sil makes them afraid t
,n i DOCTOR at the time whe,
ANU and d be cured; they hide til
3 rp 1ro 81 SO 1t spreads everywhere
itb want" al to have a hospital t.
he is Eases at the beginning
ice + 5a 30 much prejudice an
Hi Hefe that l fear we shaI