The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-03-19
AN APPEAL.


About three weeks ago the building
which had been used for a hospital in
the kerosene camp, was turned into a
sort of hospital for. incurables, the first
patient sent there being an Hawaiian,
named Kanoa, who was in the last
stages of consumption. Shortly after
being removed from the tenement build
ing, in which his case had been a men
ace to the health of others, he died.
The need of "a place to die i'm has
been urged again and again. 1t has
been pointed out that we have treated
our dying incurables with cruelty. The
hospital was not the place for them,
private houses were not proper for
them, there was no place in tenement
houses for them. At last a sug-
gestion came that the hospital
building at the Kerosene detention
camp was a building in every way fit
ted for taking charge of such people.
It was already fitted up with beds and
so forth, and it could be run at a small
expense.
The idea was considered a good one,
and patients who could find no place
in the Queens Hospital, as for instance,
men from the detention camps, or peo-
| pie absolutely destitute, of race other
than Hawaiian-for no one but an Ha-
waiian can be a free patient of the
hospital, though the hospital is main
tanned in large part by funds contrib
uted by foreigners of all nationalities-
and the hopelessly incurable have found
an asylum here.
1t was hoped that this might become
a permanent institution, but it is now
proposed to do away with this growing
| little haven of mercy and to turn it's
inmates upon the streets, or wherever
they can find a spot to die in. There
We're, on Saturday, seventeen inmates
of this haven, of whom eight were ty-
phOid patients, who, having been in
relief camsp could not go to the
/ Queens Hospital, three had beri-beri,
two pneumonia, two consumption, one
paralysis, and one nephritis. One of
these was in a dying condition, and has
probably passed away ere now.
| Mrs. Willis, wife of the Bishop of
Honolulu, has interested herself in this
work, and has been most assiduous in
her attendance at the little hospital.
She is doing all she can to keep the
place open. Up to today the food re-
/ quired has come from the Board of
Health, but today it will cease.
! Now, is the community going to allow
place of this kind to be closed? 1t is
is to be devOutly hoped not. Many
are interested in this little institution,
Panopolis has offered pecunlary assist
ance; other people have done the same,
and Minister Damon has promised to
take charge of any funds. In such a
work as this there is no distinction of
church, or class, or race, and 1t is an
Roman Catholic church and the head of
the Episcopal church, working for a
common cause of good, the alienation
of the suffering poor and the hope
/ lessly incurable.
Among others who are willing to work
4
promised to give an hour a day of his
time to attendance upon patients, and
no doubt there are other physicians
who will follow his example Mrs. Ka-
noa, the widow of the consumptive who
died, has remained as a nurse without
pay. AS has already been said, Mrs.
Willis is constant in her attendance up
on these people.
1t is true that there has been a heavy
drain upon our people just at the pres
ent time, but there is yet some oil left
in the cruze of charity, and The Star
feels sure that the noble effort to estab-
fish hospital for incurables will meet
with the assistance that it is worthy
Of receiving, and that the present in
mates viii not be turned out to die in
| the streets.