Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-03-12
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS
i.
NATIVE POPULATION.

whose ra,sges cannot be expressed IL figures but
known have been appsiIrg; il has also thoroughly
debiaied the whoe The historian Jarvis mentions
s recTudescence and vplenee particularly females
au 1892 but nowadays especially the last lax to
mitigate has lost much of It's former prevalence and
deadiness Measles and Hopping cough introduced
in ls4s ADD commonly acknowledged to have carried
tenth Of the population making the rate Of decrease
Of thst period jump correctly from 10 to "A cent Next
came small p0x In 1853 which killed about 5000
reople and caused the rate Of decrease to rush up
again to y per Then followed seven years of
normal conditions in which the re went down to about
per only Proper quarantine precautions in the
nture ought easily preserve the from any further
Gals Of this the in the Government
their pofessed desire to protect the natives
Leprcsy first observed in 1853 aroused public attention in
1854 and the end Of 1865 the Settlement Molokai
started with 40 persons Since then up July 3ls 1923
4s2 persons have been sent there These supposed
include about $50 white Foreigners but record has
kept the natioualities many Chinese lepers
we're living at Mookai July 81 1898 aud according to the
Government assertions they pretty all the cases
now existing segregation being enforced with extreme
severity at the cost of the Kaalau tragedy, which
native. Kooau, successfully kept at bay whole
pany Of foreign soldiers with artillery (June 1899
Ye, the above total be said represent exactly
all that have developed in this country many
having died at home who bad not the cocnsance
the authorities and others principally foreigners having
left the country The spread of this dire disease popu
sry attributed in great to careless vaccination
81 and there really other way that account for the
lumber Of children native and white who have developed
eproy without their parents attendants having
shown any symptoms of the sconrge To leprosy must
evidently be attributed certain proportion of the native
decrease since 1853 but there is plausible reason to
suppose that its future effects may possibly increase the
past or present of mortality seems pretty nearly
stamped out
No additional light be gathered on the respective
influence Of the various other diseases factors mortal
ity by referring the of the Board of Health
because these outside of Honolulu merely nominaI
and the Capital the number Of cases recorded as
unattended cause unknown and the true causes of
which thereby scientifically asceained so large
that any percentage table would be vated and useless
II only be mentioned that consumption and lung
diseases large factors and this be asserted as direct
result of the Sudden revolution clothing enforced by the
Missionaries
As q visitor Justly remarked. the natives both males
and females very learned add the necessities Of
fashion TO the requirements of deceney taught by the
New England puritsns aud from the early times when the
money brought by the whalers circulated freely in the
country tho natives used spend all their earnings ON
rich dresses out dc their neghbors in the then impor
tant event Of going to church From the light national
costume suited TO the climate they jumped t. heavy silk
dresses heavy wooen clothes shoes and stockings beaver
hats etc which in the heat of the day snd in crowded
meetings made them perspire freely and feel uneomfor
able that soon rs they could return home thew woud
drafts throw themselves the cold waters thus
bringing themselves every kind Of lung and rheumatic
troubles But the Natives evidently encouraged in
this love 81 dress by the missionaries view of increasing
the profits Of the drygoods stores owned by them
But il must be borne in mind that the general
sanitary conditions Of the Nstves-esen though they
might still be heiere to the advantage of the longevity of
the aoehave yet wonderfully improved during the last
decade especially among the Haeastes whose modes Of
living getting to Be enlightened aud
refined aud quite equal those Of the best foreigners
b Disproportion OF sexes.The other causes enumer-
ated DULY very secondary and their influence is
waning except TIA, Of the dsproporoa of sexes among
the Natives The last registered Is S6a males
against 6 ca females of the total of 81 36 By refer
ring to the figures Of the previous the following
table has been compiled:
Excess OF MALES OVER FExALEs PEE CENT.
1850 1858 1850 1866 1874 1878. 1854 1890.
ASQ.N 40 54S $50 $50 65S 74S So,