The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-03-07
A STEP FORWARD.

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The medical oficer shall have the fore
castle of the vessel .dfsinfaotad before
ehe goes to sea again. This disinfection
consists in first tboroupbIv CLEANSING
the floors. walls and hunks with hot
water and concentrated I've and then
in saturatinp the apartrnant with
disinfecting solution for which two
formulate are given.
This action Of the Marine Hospital
Service shows two things. First the
dread and danger of the disease of
consumption, and second the care that
is now taken of the sailor. The sailor
is no longer the utterly neglected man
that he was fifty years ago In those
days anything was considered good
enough for the sailor. No one wouId
ever have thought of fumigating, or
washing or painting poor Jacks quar-
ters for him. But all that is changed
now. There are still many wrongs that
the deep sea sailor suffers, but his lot
has been very much relieved, and he is
able to get even with those in author
ity over him. Sometimes, indeed, the
pendulum swings unduly the sailors
way, but that is only a natural re-
action
But totally part from the sailors
welfare. there is a lesson to be learn
ed from the action of the Marine Hos
pital authorities If the disease is he
ing fought in the ships forecastIe why
should it not be fought in the sbip,s
cabin. The idea of peopIe leaving tbeir.
own climate to get cured of tubercu-
lOsis is now thoroughly exnIoded With
proper care and taken in fine q per-
son can be cured of tuberculosis as
well in the Arctic regions. in New
York in the Black Forest in Germany.
as in the baImy and mild climate of
Madeira or of orr o,vn. South Tlona
Hawaii. There is therefor no hardship
upon any one for rafusina them mass
age on board of vessel There is
however great hardship entaiIed unon
other peopIe bv having to live in a con-
fined space together with consumptiva
patients. There is real danger fo those
who occupy cabins previously OCCUPIED
by conservatives. and which. though
washed and cleaned have never been
properly disinfected. Passenger steam
ers should refuse TO carry peopIe sIf-
fering from tuberculosis. They would
refuse to carry any one suffering from
SMALLPOX. or pIague or tvphus fever
and tuberculosis is every whit as dan
gerous to others as anv of these. In
deed it is more so because of its in
seriousness.
But if there is lesson to steam
ship owners there is a lesson to peopIe
on land as well. There is a terrible
amount of careIessness about tuber-
cuIous sufferers on land. We can see
it from the continued spread of the