The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-06-06

What does a patient want?
warm. dry soil; pure. fresh air,
free from dust and organic impurities:
sufficient fine weather to allow an out
door life: adequate protection from
wind and RAIN all OF these conditions
are to our hands.
The influence of good and abundant
food and careful nursing, together with
these hygienic conditions all tend to q
cure and perhaps this IL why phthisis
does not kill SO quickly when it at
lacks white and the well to do as
when the poorer classes and the Ha-
waiians are attacked. But is not this
very fact a crying shame and blot
on the civilization Of these Islands.
do not want tonight to open up a
discussion on the ACCESSIBILITY or the
non-advisability of the establishment
Of sanitarium here. but what ] do
want is to SOW the seed or to water the
crop already sown II you will. of a
consumption crusade. l am dealing
really with the prevention rather than
cure for consumption, but it is diff
ficult matter to separate one from the
other. But when see far advanced
phthisic splitting about a house, a
church, a shop. a theater. a hotel, a
train. a tram car, I cannot help think
ing of the unhappy victims in whom
that elected poison will find a home
and grow and multiply until he in turn
becomes source of misery to himself
and infection to others.
First. Wherefore would suggest that
the public be informed of the ways and
| means in which tuberculosis disease
may be disseminated and the measures
to be taken for its prevention.
Second. That the sanitary authori-
er as shall on due consideration be
deemed III to prevent the spread Of
| this disease
| think. too. on these general prin-
ciples society should be formed, a
society by no means confined to the
medical fraternity. society which
should include "all sorts and condi-
tons of men" and women who would
take or who already take an interest
in the matter. That this society, these
Consumptive Crusaders. should have
before them the carrying out some or
all of the following suggestions:
| /. To establish an Office under the
direct control of a medical superinten-
dent or the Board of Health as a body.
| All patients not under treatment
should be directed thither.
2. This Office should have some
arrangements for nursing patients.
3. This Office should have facilities
for the examination of all sputa.
4. This Office to be notified by the
Board of Health as to deaths from
phthisic and have power to disinfect
etc.
S. This Office should be supported
by donations and subscriptions, aided
by Government grant.
| 6. This Office should, IL hereafter
thought advisable, confer with the
Board of Health as to the establish
ment OF colony. but perhaps ! am
getting too Utopian and too much
ahead Of present opinion.
| Z. This Office should control and re-
ceive reports from the sanitary inspec-
ton and examination of slaughter
houses and meat supply, diaries and
milk supply and also examination OF
schools. all from the point OF view OF
tuberculosis.
s. And last, but certainly not leas,
among their objects. should be the ed
ucatiOn of the public by public notices
by the establishment of public spit
toons and perhaps above all by the dis
semination of literature. would sug
gest that quite early in the crusade
some preliminary tract should be sowr
broadcast throughout the land.
A tract such as the following. which
is based upon one issued to consump
tives at the hospital in Edinburg ant
also on one issued in another part O
Great Britain.
TO CONSERVATIVE PATIENTS AMI
THEIR FRIENDS.
Consumption is catching.
Consumption Is durable.
!, Consumption Is not inherited, bu
. like many other well known diseases
II is caught.
II is caught chiefly by the drying o
the expectoration and the blowing
about Of the dried infectious material
; Therefore the patient should not us,
handkerchiefs to spit into; squares o
} rag or paper may be used on an emer
gency and afterwards burned.
The patient should eXpectorate int
a jar or cup containing ac carbol Il il
20).
! The contents of this jar should b.
emptied into the closet or on to tn
fire and the jar afterwards cleanser
with boiling water.
The expectoration must not be swal
lowed lest the disease pass to the or
! gans.
: Good health is the best preventativ,
against consumption.
lntemperance, overCrowding, ba,
air, darkness, dampness, colds, sor
throat and the period of recovery from
illness like grippe and measles. maxi
people liable to catch consumption.
No spoon. cup or other article wIicl
has touched the mouth Of consImp
tive should be used by any one els' un
: Ill II has been carefully washed.
Food which has been lief, by a con
sumptive should not he eaten by ahv
one else.
Consumptiyes should avoid kissing
Consumptiye mothers should no
D suckle.
I Should a consumptlye spit on IN
! floor, wipe II up with rag burn IN
: rag and dlsinfect the place on the foo
al. L.,