Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-10-16
IN SELF nEFENCE.

-, Tor whom you
apps N a. sponsor, presents sew
sral misstatements. First, he did
Iot visit the Ch ,Iera Hospital
until nearly a month after | had
eft, when no cholera patients |
we're there, nor had been for some
sime, and at time when all the
labor Of the attendants consisted
simply in keeping the place clean
and showing visitors around, The
-uorgue, or dead-house, was in
the windward corner of the row
# rooms occupied by Father Va
lentine, kahlIna (EkeIeka) and
your humble servant. There was
iull and free ventilation and open
communication between my room
and the dreaded morgue, and be
tween Father Valentines and
mine. There were at IT, es no less
than three undisinfected "coda-
yer" as my next door neighhors,
often remaining there, uucOllinri,
sor ton hours coDsecutiveIy.
Pleasant to contemplate, those
Iuiet, next door neighbors, truly,
but your representative would
have double ID the Hospital
authorities for inhuman treatment
and horrible, unnecessary, expo
sure to co0tagion if ne had been
in my position. Father Valentine
stood this kind of treatment for
nearly q week, but the strain be-
came too great and nervous pros
ration sent him to his bed with
gooor me to nurse him during his
irst hours Of patient suffering of
mind and body. lie really be
Ieved that he had cholera but
only made provisions for his
soul 8 safety, never worrying much
about his mortal parts. Drs.
Smith and Herbert treated aud
cured him. Be pleased to re-
member that | was being punish
ed, in my placement next the
norgue, Father V, whether in
tentlonaIIy or not, was punished
by the compulsory residence in
close proximity to the morgue,
and the native kahuna vas being
punished by compulsory retention
in the grounds and in Morgue
Row; i for being a news writer,
A. at \ n 4 tfNNn a -
measure, and the kahuna for
stated interference with the orders
of physicians; and thus we three
became the original residents in
that gruesome locality, Morgue
Row.
Hon. W.O' Smith was the only
one who made any attempt to
lessen the"horrors" of our quarter.
On complaint he personally com
PEELED the immediate disintection
.oi several bodies which had been
placed in the Morgue (my next
door, and on one occasion the com
plaint to Mr.. Smith was made in
front Of a newspaper-man (the
only one, by the way, of the local
corps that displayed the necessary
nerve and desire to investigated
and the existing evil was then
abated. Mr.. Smith gave positive
orders to have the bodies cothned
immediately after assured death ,
but, when his back was turned
the corpses "slept" next to me,
during many a night, wrapped
simply in their undisinfected
blankets, the muscular, after
death, contractions being indi'
Gated to me by the dull thud
upon the floor adjoining of life
less arm or leg, a visit of inspec-
zion being met by the full view O
the distorted features of cholers
victim whose look presented {
-ealistic picture # SCOTS lines IL
Marin on"
"ror deadly fear can can time outgo,
Nor does Old age a wrinkle trace
More deeply than despair.
Pleasant, YER. humane, cou
scieutious and Christian-like t
be thus placed, was it not?
Your representatives. tale of tn
"Japane,e' is wrong, l did ~
60 into the Morgue; did not repol
zhe man as alive; nor was theI
any explanation of the circun
stances made to me. All the E,
claiming was done by the u,r
people tnat discovered the res
Diration," not "relaxation." o.
nf the threa to he snra that IL ln