The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-05-08
A SIGN or promise.

Mr.. Mcveigh. the new superintendent
OF the Leper Settlement. says that he
win give tuatua n fair trial That Is
something the South American remedy
has never yet had In this Territ0rS
though the plant was sent here by the
Department OF Agriculture about two
years ago with the recommendation
that 10 b. tested at Aoio<ai. Within
the last year or 80 partial efforts were
made To- do something with tuatua,
first at Kalihi station where DIR. Camp
began experiments only to have them
cut or 10 a few days by the dispatch
10 his patients TO AOlOkai. and second
at the Settlement where Dr. Oliver
gave such Iepcrs as desired to try the
medicine n dose or two apiece. As
proper treatment II at least a matter
of months. IL will be seen that tuatua
has Jared IN at the hands OF the unbe-
Iieving.
Meanwhile u has seemed TO improve
the health OF Iepers elsewhere. The
Tahiti cases. which have been reported
in this paper. are such as to attract
the resident French physicians and
lead them To- send for Dr. Camps for
muias and have them printed In
French and Tahitian, We are told on
credible authority that pronounced
I-pcrs In Tahiti. regularly treated with
tsatua- are getting well. In the face OF
all this corroboratIvc detail u - sur
p~ising that medical men have shown
80 little interest In the matter here.
Fortunately Mr.. Mcveigh Is not ham
percd by The traditions OF doctors nor
By their fear OF what II new. and ne
viii see that tuatua has as much show
on MoIokaI. at least. as II L. getting In
Tahiti
should he cure n ieper he would b. |
famous the world over and would have /
done m incompatible amount OF good. /
The result to Hawaii from an eradica-
ton OF the teprous scourEe cannot b.
todd tn the mere figures OF money saved
which IL now spent In keeping up the
settlements matter OF 100000 per
year. The reputation OF this group q
a health and pleasure resort has been
for years by the kuowi-
edge. spread widely and always In an
exaggerated form. that icprosy exists
among us. Hut for that Hawaii would
oee. Commonly the frat things stran-
gers ask are about the danger % In
fiction. IL 10 useless TO go into partic-
uiars With such people: to tell them ;
hat where ieprUsy claims one victim
here strip summons a hundred In other
places % the same population on the
.ainiands and that white people. need
ave less fear OF the scour-c of Asia
Ian % carriage accidents OF death By
ire. To them l-prOsy means far more
han 20 does TO those who know the
.siaay; ard 80 Il bshooves IA place
-hich makes n market % It's climate
Nd scenic attractions TO leave nothing
intOns which may cleanse Hawaii 81
be disease which puts u at such dis
advantage with lass favored resorts on
he coast-r-sOrts that divide the busl-
los OF 10000 tot rists among them for
our months OF each year.
or courEe tuatua may not be the spe-
tfc for leprosy which must somewhere
sist among natures antidotes for
very baIe: but IL II the best thing We
ave TO experiment with now. From
'razil az well an from Tahiti come as
srauces that u has cured the victims
the rotting plague: and the assur-
noes are enough TO inspire earnest
fork here. IL n a sign OF promise that
Ir. McVeigh. ~ agent OF the Board OF
ieaith. VIII do his best TO induce the
pers TO take the tuatua treatment as
should be taken.