The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-06-06

an authority in whose district 10 Is for
sale and all dairies and places where
milk is sold should be striUEently
looked after.
As to treatment. Fresh air Is death
to- the bacillus. life To the patient
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 10 our hands.
The influence of good and abundant
food and careful nursing. together with
these hygienic conditions all tend TO =
cure and perhaps this Is why phthisis
does not Kill SO quickly when 60 at
tacks white and the well To 60 As
when the poorer classes and the Ha-
waiians are attacked. But l. not IN
very fact a crying shame and blot
on the civilization OF these Islands.
| do not want tonight tn oTcn Up a
discussion on the advisability az the
non-advisability OF the establishment
of sanitarium here. but what I do
want Is TO SOW the seed or To water the
crop already sown ii YOU will. Of a
consumption crusade. / am dealing
really with the prevention rather than
cure for consumption. but IL i diff
ficult matter to separate one from the
other. But when / see a far advanced
phthisic splitting about house. a
church. a shop, a theater. hotel. a
train. a tram car. / cannot help think
| ing of the unhappy victims i'm whom
that elected poison Will find a home
and grow and multiply until he in turn
becomes a source OF misery to- himself
and infection 10 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 is prevention.
| Second. That the sanitary authori-
ties should bs given such further pow
er as shall on due consideration De
deemed fit 10 prevent the spread nf
this disease.
| think. too. on these general prin-
ciples society should sc formed. n
society by no means confined tn the
medical fraternity. q society which
should include all sorts and Condi-
tions OF men" and women who would
take or who already take an interest
in the matter. That this society. these
IConsumptive Crusaders. should have
before them the carrying out some oT
all of the following suggestions:
| l. To establish an Office under the
direct control Of a medical superinten-
dent or the Boa-d of Health as a body.
All patients not under treatment
should be directed thijher.
>. This office should have some
arrangements for nursing patients
3. This Office should have facilities
for the examination OF all sputa.
1. This Office 10 DC notified by the
Board of Health as 10 deaths from
phthisic and have power - disinfcCt
etc.
:. This Office should be supported
by donations and subscriptions. aided
by Il Government grant.
Is. This Office should. 2 hereafter
thought advisable, confer with the
Board OF Health as 10 the establish
ment of a colony. but perhaps I am
getting too Utopiau and too much
ahead of present opinion.
{. This Office should control and re-
ceive reports from The sanitary inspec-
ton and examination Of slaughter
houses and meat supply. dairies and
milk supply and also examination al
schools. al! from the point OF view al
tuberculosis.
=. And last. mt certainly not least
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 o. literature. 7 would sug-
gest that quite early in the crusade
some preliminary tract should be sown
broadcast throughout the land.
y tract such as the following. which
is based upon one issued 20 consump-
tives at the hospital in Edinburg and
also on one issued in another part al
Great Britain.