The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-01-30

in the city, and particularly among
school children. Principal Scott, of the
High School. said yesterday that about
fone-third of the members of his senior
class were at home with the fever, and
if the thing went on he did not really
know what he WOULD do about it. OF
course. the dengue is a matter OF only
a few days sickness. but the pupil who
loses that time must make up the
work. and that makes more work for
the teachers. "And them said MIR.
Scott, there is the likelihood of the
teacher getting it also. None of our
teachers in this building have caught
the infection, as yet, but two out of
the four teachers in the primary have.
1t seems to me that it would be better
to give a few days vacation. until the
disease has a chance to wear itself
OUT
The dengue fever. or at least the
fever that was then known as the boo
hoo fever" swept over the Islands as
long ago as 1852. 1t was then not fatal
in form, only annoying and painful in
its symptoms. 1T was in 1882 said
Mrs. w. C. Parke, one of the oldest
living settlers on the Islands, at her
residence on Beretania street yester-
day, that a ship drifted into the port
of Lahaina in distress, having on board
Panama to San Francisco and was
overcrowded with gold seekers. She
was in need of food and water-in need
of most everything, in fact-and there
people. The disease spread over the
Islands very fast, rather more among
the whites than the natives, but was
not attended by any fatalities. 1 know
had it. The doctors called it then
very mild form of Panama fever, but
one of its most marked effects was the
extreme depression of spirits that
marked those who had it, and it was
from that depression that it took the
name of 'boohoo fever Those who had
it were always ready to cry. There
was a second epidemic of it some years
later, but 1 do not remember much
about that"
Il think 1 know rather more about
the dengue fever personally than pro-
said Dr. Wood yesterday.
Il have just recovered from an attack
of it. And do not believe that it is pos
sible for a man to mistake the disease,
either. It is distinctly dengue. The
pains in the back would be enough to
identify it. was in bed for two days last
week, and then got up for about TWEEN
ty-four hours, having an interval of
ease, but was then compelled to go to-
bed for another couple of days. The
cases. In some, for example, there is
just the rash, and no fever, but it al
ways commences with the severe mus
cular pains Then comes the rash, and,
in some patients. a severe nausea. 1t
is a peculiar thing that the dengue has
ATTITUDES where it thrives on the path
of the grip. We have had grip here,
more or less we'll marked, for six weeks
past, and now comes the dengue, which
has many symptoms in common with
it. But you will permit me to say that
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dengue in this city within the past sew
enteen years, at least. If it had been !
here in that time I would have known /
it, as 1 have been in constant practice
all that time. There may have been
isolated cases, but there has been no
epidemic. No, 1 do not believe that the .
germ of dengue has ever been estab- /
ished. DR.. Mclaughlin of Texas claims /
to have found the germ-and may be
he did for by analogy it would seem
that dengue is a germ disease-but we
DO not consider a germ established until
cultures have been made from it and
the disease reproduced from the cul- /
lures. and that has never been done
in the city"
The name "dengue" was given to the
fever by the negroes of the Island Of
st. Thomas, in the West Indies, who 1
said that a man who had it walked .
ike a dandy" The disease swept up
into the Gulf States of the mainland in
1850, and out of population of 11,O00 in
he city of Augusta, Georgia, 5000 were
1t was noted there that the
disease was hemorrhagic in tendency, !
particularly in the case of debilitated
persons, and in fact probably the only
Danger from it is to persons who are de-
who have weak hearts, or TO
he very young. With all others it is a
mild contagion, indeed, with no fatality
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