The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-06-06

What does patient WANT
a warm. dry soil. pura. fr.sh air.
FREQ from dus, and organic impuritle..
sufD,l.n, fine veather to allow nm ON,
door life. adequate protection from
wind and rain. ali OF these conditions
are 10 our hands
Tho ipauence ~ good and abundant
food and careful nursing. together with
these bysienic conditions ali tend 20 A
cure and perhaps this is why phthisis
does not Kill so quickly when II at
lacks white and the well TO do as
when the poorer classes and the Ua-
waiiaps are attacked. But Is not this
on the civilization of these Islands.
I do not want tonight To omen mn n
discussion on the adyisability or the
non-adyisability of the establishment
of n sanitarium here, but what I do
want Is IN SOW the seed or TO water the
crop already sown II YOU will. of a
copsumption crusade. | am dealing
really with the prevention rather than
cure for copsumption, but Il is diff
fcult matter to separate one from the
other But when | see a far advanced
| phthisic splitting about a house, a
church. n shop, a theater. a hotel. u
train. a tram car. 1 cannot helm think
ing of the unhappy victims i'm whom
that elected poison will find home
and grow and multiply until he i'm turn
becomes a source of misery to himself
and infection to others.
First. Wherefore | would suggest that
the public be informed of the WAYS and
means i'm which tuberculosis disease
may be disseminated and the measures
to be taken for it's prevention.
| Second. That the sanitary authori-
ties should be given such further pow
err as shall on due consideration be
deemed fl to prevent the spread of
this disease.
| think. too. on these general prin-
ciples a society should be formed, q
society by no means confined to the
medical fraternity, 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
Consumptive Crusaders, should have
before them the CARRYING out some or
all of the following suggestions.
| I. 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.
. This Office should have some
arrangements for nursing patients.
g. 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.
>. This Office should be supported
by donations and subscriptions, aided
by Government grant
thouyht adyisah,a cnn,.r With ~.
RnarJ M ueaItb nc IN tho os,ah,ish-
ment NJ colonv lint nerb.ns am
oe,tiry too Irton;an and too much
ahead NJ nresent oninion
7 This office should contro, and 70.
ceive renorts from tho sanitary insnec-
rion and examination ~ slougbte,
houses and meat sunn,v dairios and
milk SUNNY and also examination nj
schools ali from the point ~ view nj
tubercuIosis
& And last lint certainly NOT Ieas,
among their objects. should Inc the ed.
Iucation NJ the nubIic NV nuh,ic notices
lby the establishment OF public snit.
toons and nerhaps above ali nv the dis.
lsemination of literature would sup.
pest that unite early I'm the crusade
some preliminary tract should he sowr
broadcast throughout the land,
A tract such as the following. which
lis based upon one issued 70 consumn.
tiyes Mt the hospital in Edinburg and
also on one issued i'm another mart n,
Great Britain.
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~ 'oN"nM .,, We iIEN'S AM
ihE'h rniENDo'
Consumption Is catching.
Consumption Is durable.
. Consumption is not inherited. but
, like many other well known diseases
It Is caught.
1t Is caught chiefly by the drying OF
the expectoration and the BLOWN,
about of the dried infectious material
Therefore the patient should not use
handkerchiefs to spit into: squares OF
rag or paper may be used on an emer
, gency and afterwards burned.
The patient should expectOrate int