Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-01-29

and owing 20 various conditions and
circumstances was spread among the
native population until II became
matter of great national concern. In
the year 1864 law was enacted by the
Hawaiian Legislature for the segrega-
ton and treatment of lepers, since
which time over six thousand persons
have been taken to the Settlement at
Golokal and cared for at public ex-
pcnse
or the one thousand and ten thus
confined on the first day OF January,
1901, there we're:
Hawaiians ...,.............s.. $50
Chinese Observation-Disclosures. "a
Whites .................. 2
Other nationalities ........... II
The task of dealing with this nation
ri calamity. of tho care and treatment
of the afflicted, has taxed the powers
o, the local government and the skill
81 physicians. The problem presented
was a very serious one, and the more
Sc because of the natural objection of
people to being separated from their
friends. husbands from wives, and par
ents from children. and there were
raised questions which at times threat
.cned the authority of the Government;
but wise and thoughtful consideration
for the wants of these unfortunate peo-
pie has enabled the law to be thus far
carried out.
At the Settlement cottages have been
provided for the sick. the home life has
been maintained as far as possible. all
the wants of the inmates being sup
pense, and community Of over thou
sand persons live there in peace and
harmony.
II would he great wrong to the lIa-
Naiians who live at the Settlement to
have people from foreign Countries
uhacquainted with them. their Ian
guage habits, traditions and sympa-
tkies,-forced upon them, and perhaps,
III considerable numbers. Further
more. the introduction OF such people
Nould doubtless become disturbing
element in that peaceful community.
And to send lepers from the United
States to Molokai would be a great
wrong and injustice to those thus sent
To the great majority of the people OF
the United States these Islands are n
foreign country, and to send persons at.
fiicted with disease to a foreign Coun-
try from three to five thousand miles
from home, among a strange people
whose language they cannot under.
stand, with whose customs, ways ant
food they are unacqualnted and unac
customed would in any case be out
rUgeous, but especially with leprosy. {
disease which In so many cases grad
Ually renders the person unable to ear,
for himself and needing the assistance
Of others. and with the depression ant
woe that comes from the hopelessnes'
OF the case,
But what could person from New
England or Louisiana or the North
west do. II brought so far from home
and friends and associations, and fore
Ell into these strange environments anC
g. hopeessly and completely buried?
1t is hard to believe that the propo
s,tiop cop seriousIv he considered n,
lintelIigent and resronsibIn rersons
Tbo rospops,b,Iitv 90 upop zach stat,
ana Torri,or, 10 coro for Ito ou,r sicl
ana bo,nIo.s and What right has ove,
Tho TodaroI covornment m force uno,
ona commute those arrlicted with ,
IIcothsomo disease
zach Stoto can nrovide n nIoce In
lI,s Ioners and care for tbem In IN,
copntrv aod under the snrroundins
with which thov arc familiar wber
they can communicates with and recoiv,
the svmpathv of chair friends and tbos
dear IN thom
Tho only noesihIe reasop that On,
be given wbv tho leners from the o,bc
narts of tho country sbouId he sent n
Hawaii is that this little country ba
worked ont its own problem go vel
and nrovideT 90 intelIieentlv for IN
pfrIicted ones and solved the diaicuIt
, 80 wisely thai others desire the beno
NJ nj the nrovision that has been mad
, for Ieners here
wbv cannot eacb State mako nrovl