The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-08-01
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THE INFECTED KISS
BOARD OF HEALTH HEART TO
HEART TALK ON TusER
culosls.
Executive Officer Pratt, Authorized to
Circulate Dodgers Freishsed With
Information and Printed in Many
Languages.

the Hawaiian. Portuguese and Asiatics
throughout the islands. and especial
ly In Honolulu. with the recent in
crease in the death rate due to this
form Of malady as shown by the
monthly statistics issued by the
Health department. has caused the
Board Of Health to take action in ar
resting the progress of the malady to
some extent by the introduction OF
precautionary measures.
The matter was given considerable
discussion at yesterdays meeting OF
the Board of Health. Executive Off
Ger Pratt informed the members OF
the percentage of deaths resulting
from tuberculosis. in comparison with
those due to other sources. He also
submitted 10 the Board form of rules
for the guidance of consumptives,
which il was recommended be printed
in Portuguese. Hawaiian. Japanese,
Chinese and English.
The suggestion met with instant
favor with the Board of Health. Ds
Pratt was ordered to have the desired
number OF copies printed in the vari-
Gus languages and freely distributed
The following is draft of the rules:
To the Consumptive Direct:-Your
breath is not infectious. and people
need not fear you on that account.
Only what you cough up is danger
Gus. and that only when il gets dry
II this is spat up in your room on the
| floor and elsewhere. and allowed to
become dry it viii poison the air so
that you may re-infect yourself and
thus weaken or destroy the chance OF
your recovery.
When you cough do not swallow
what comes up in your throat: spit it
out. either into bit OF rag or paper.
to be burned at once. or into water
in cup of vessel to be emptied fire.
quently into the sewer through the
waste pipes; the sewage germs will
destroy the consumptive germs. BY
swallowing again there is danger OF
extending the disease to the bowels.
Do not let others kiss You indis-
criminately. and never without first
carefully wiping your lips with car
bolized rosewater and thoroughly
drying them.
Consumption is not hereditary and
consequently parents need not fear
that they win transmit il to their
children. except. that the close and
intimate relations between a consump-
tive mother and her child increase the
danger Of infection if the coughed-
up matter is allowed to become dry
before 1t is destroyed
Most Importantly: Remember that
consumption is not necessarily fatal
disease. Many persons who have
died of other diseases have been
found with healedup scars in the
lungs, showing that they have been
cured Of consumption. More cases of
consumption are cured By medical aid
than is generally known-especially
Ia this climate. Follow your doctors
instructions implicitly ana don't inn
pair his chance of curing yon By re-
injecting yourself Insist on having
all your expectoretions promptly de-
stroyed for your own sake as well as
for the sake Of others.
To the Family of Conservative.
Study the principles UNDERLYING the
foregoing Make II family duty in
cumbent on every member to see that
no expecforatec matters is allowed to
get dry before being burned or eu,n.
tied into the waste pines.
Handkerchiefs should not be nsa7
BY the consnmptive: but II they are
they should be immersed in water al.
ter use and kept wet until they can
be thoroughly boiled. Articles OF
clothing bedding. etc that may be &C
cidentails so;lea with the consampfiye
spnfA should be treated IN the same
way, or be thoroughly sponged on
with earbclixed water.
Spoons. cups. glasses and other ar
ticies used By eonsumptfve should
he thoroughly washed ard scalded as
soon after use as possible.
When IN doubt As to other astasls
OF this kind consult the doctor en.s
rely apon him implicitly.
To the Public: The duty az the nss.-
lie as Ia consumption Is Obvious.
Discourage the practice Of puslsc.
exper;oration. both BIZ precept and ex
ample Il is not only offensive 10
those who witness Il. bat dznkesosss
q those who conc aiong later when
the expsrtoyation IS dried np. powder.
"a snd floating In the air.
Thrust = copy of this circular into
the hands q the next person yor So
sawkinx and spitfing On the street a.
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