The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-04-09

to their health. Travellers IN
the extreme southern countries,
such as India, carry as a COM
panion a medicine case with
such preparations as will ward
off sudden attacks Of chlils, or
malarial fevers
All this is very nice to have
in the house to use in an
emergency but if the above
rules, and especially the ap-
pended seventh, are strictly
adhered to there will be less
occasion to resort to the medi.
cine case.
Six months ago Honolulu
as we'll as the islands were in
an intense state of excitement
by the announcement in the
daily papers that cholera had
appeared.
The Board of Health was in
a peculiar position as they had
to cope with a plague that they
we're not familiar with, and by
the people not having sufficient
confidence in them to listen to
their DEGREES. They realized
their position and the Difficult.
ties that would have to be
surmounted, namely; people
who would not pay attention
to their instructions, -delibe-
rately broke the tabus and last
and the most important of al
: the inadequate sewerage.
) 1t was thoroughly, demon
strated that persons contracted
the disease, if you can call i
such, by coming in direct con
tact with those afteoted-tha
the germs we're in certain
: vegetable and animal foods
! that you ate and in the waite
,, you drank.
l In countries where frost il
unknown malarial fever germs
, are constantly being generated
! and it behooves people to b.
exceptionally cautious OF thei
method Of living, and OF thu
water that they drink as TIL
. malarial terer germs are IN tn
, Wdter.
! The heavy rains that W
have experienced in the las
. few weeks have played havo
. with the water by making
. muddy and impure. TIL
: physicians of the Board {
Health recommend that a
drinking water be boiled, bu
we recommend you to boil an
filter it by using an IMPROVE
STONE FILTER.
You can boil it if you wish, b
If the mere fact Of boiling it doe
'e not do away with the germs
+ If the water is Insufficient
n boiled the germs are not kitlt
d they remain in the water an
lie pass into the body. The RI
J. suits OF drinking insufficient
r boiled, or even thorough
N boiled water are too plain
as need any further comment.
x Take the water that has bee
boiled, hold it to the light an
you will see the sediment, b
let the same water pass throus
an IMPROVED STONE FILTER, e
III anime it and you will find
H. clear as crystal
- A filter that is built for VIII
al it is intended, cannot half fit
., the water, it either does the VOL
90 or something is radically wror
I. in the construction. If Il
Us latter is the case no matt
ne how many times the wat
lie passes through the filter IL
II water will remain impur
~ while if the filter is proper
C. constructed it does the work
% one fltering.
!. The IMPROVED STONE FILTE
IN are easily cleaned, and new
a' become cracked or crazed
change of temperature OF tt
" water.
NJ NJ The fltering medium
Gu natural stone mined from Il
o. earth and is unlike any 9th
Oh stone in that it does not abso
70 or become foul. Impuriti
AZ never penetrate it, but lies
Us the surface and internally Il
a. stone remains as pure al
H. white after years OF use
81 when taken from the mine.
he "Forewarned is forearme'
n the summer weather will 500
ne be here, do not wait until it
OF upon you before purchasir
'e an IMPROVED STONE FILTER
ke it is needful at all times.