The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-11-21
MEDICAL MEN
IN SESSION
ASSOCIATION MEETS Az HAS IN
TEREsTtNG DISCUSSIONS MANY
VISITS PAID TO INSTITUTIONS.


Medical Society was held ON saturday
In the rooms Of the symphony Society
at Haalelea lawn, when the annual re-
ports were submitted committees were
appointed and a new society was form
ed. The new society known as the
oahu n deal Society was formed from
among the members Of the profession
on this island.
Dr. w l.. Moore the retiring presi-
dent was i'm the chair with DR.. Nc
Donald as secretary. DR.. Emerson
was admitted as an active member The
! following committees were appointed:
Nominating Committee-Dr Taylor
DR.. Sloggett, Dr. Cooper.
Auditing Committee-Dr. Wayson,
DR.. Hodgins, DR. WaterhOuse.
Legislative Committee-Dr. Cooper
Dr. Mays, DR.. Day.
Resolutions Committee-Dr. Water
| house, Dr. Humphris, DR.. Walters, Dr.
! Emerson.
! President Moores address was in part
as follows:
| "Fellow Members of the Hawaiian
Territorial Medical Society and Guests:
It gives me very great pleasure to well
come yo'l to this, the first meeting of
a general character of the society. l
appreciate the honor conferred upon
me i'm making me your presiding Off
Ger. / wish to thank the members OF
the various committees for the thor
ough and faithful manner in which
they have performed their parts with
out which the event, with promises
so much, would have been impossible
1T is desirable that these annual
| gatherings should continue, and grow
i'm influence and interest. 1t will be
so if all of our members are determin-
ed that such shall be the annual con-
dition. The promotion of good fellow
ship the reading of papers which show
, the latest advance i'm all branches OF
our science comparing notes anc
planning for the future well repay'
this stepping aside from our various
spheres of active work for as shor
time. In this connection it seems
proper to suggest that permanent
quarters for the society i'm Honolulu
with the nucleus of a library, witt
reading rooms and rooms for discus
sion are necessary; that the society
should have a common point where
there may be the utmost freedom o
communication and of becoming ac
quainted one with another.
Hawaii. situated i'm the midst of thu
great North Pacific Ocean, is not onl,
the crossroads of the Pacific, but i
constitutes the extreme frontier o
western civilization, and for this rea
son great responsibilities devolvea up
on us scarcely equalled and not excel
r ed in any other locality. 1t is hardl
q necessary TO speak of the broad an
n high nature of our profession, embrac
!, ing as it does medicine and surger
- with their subdivisions, alienism an
f criminology, public hygiene and al
that pertains to fostering and protect
2 ing the public health.
. In this distant spot, separated b
4 thousands of miles of ocean and man
g days i'm time from the great centers G
4 science and of supply we are Gale
g upon practically at moments motto
% to meet the threat of pestilence an
a plague. The story of the past show
% what has been done. We have me
o and put down an invasion of Asiatio
y cholera; we are constantly menaced b
4 plague, and only the skill and abilit
% of our physicians, assisted by the civ
"A authorities has kept these things
" check. We have very inadequate pro
e vision for vaccination, and with til
% completion of the Isthmian canal "
= must be prepared to cope with yello
- fever All of the ills which atten
% upon and are fOstered by the ignoranc
"A poverty and superstituion of the OrieI
* are constantly seeking entrance to Oh
20 fair Isles We owe it to ourselves, /
20 the first law of nature, that the'
NJ threatened invasions shall be repealed
1t devolves upon us to prevent tn
Territory from becoming a menace
the state in general. We must remen
- Der that we have at our backs the va
=. territory of the United States, Canat
y and the other countries of America.
accomplish this it is necessary that II
doctor should take constant, kee
and important place in the affairs
the country.
II think II has been shown that IL
medical profession of these islands ;
a body cannot be excelled, either
skill or attainments. and you have OF
,s ly TO work i'm accord to exercise q
h irresistible force i'm accomplishir
,- measures. 1t is true that you ha,
ID worked increasingly i'm rain and shin
by daylight and i'm darkness and ofte
there has been no reward except Il
- satisfaction of knowing that you ha'
- done your duty and that you have a.
complished for the community resul
it sometimes knows not of.
Science has demonstrated that tube
culosis is infectious and that it ma
be cured; that the dried sputum is Il
- prime factor I'm it's dissemination; tn;
outdoor life, free air and sunlight a
patent factors for cure. Yet even
our sunny CLINE we have not far to 9
10 find vertable hotbeds for this di
~ ease.
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