The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-25

their white teeth. They are ready and
looking for trouble The foreman sum-
mons a squad Of police by telephone,
for the municipality is backing up the
government officers throughly They
come on the rum and the fumigating
force goes in.
The inspection party happened to
meet Dr. L. G. LIE Beuf, president OF
the New Orleans Parish Medical So
ciety, descendant of an old French
family, and one of the most prominent
practitioners in the city
Il want to show you how thoroughly
we believe in the mosquito theory
said he, land to prove it I would like
to take you to the home of a relative
of mine.
Two of this family are yellow fever
patients, little daughter of four years
having been extremely i'll. The family
have absolute faith in the, mosquito
theory. AS a demonstra ton of it they
screened the bed on which the little
one lay during her illness and permit
ted her baby brother to sleep in the
same room under a screened crib. The
babe did not get the fever
Even in these parts of the infected
district one finds nothing of a panic
The French people have studied the
situation and are sensible about it.
They we'll know the seriousness of yell
low fever, but they do not dread it
as they did when they had no idea
/ why one was stricken and another
/ spared. The Italians go about 1heir
business and their few simple pleas
ures as if the fever was not on every
hand.
hi r hi
with whom the Tribune correspondent
talked. 1T is just like any other sick
ness. Afraid, what's the use?''
SAD SCENES OF DEATH.
| 1.-THE safest place in New Orleans
is the way the surgeons speak of the
emergency hospital in Dumaine-
stones throw from the French Mar
ket and in the heart of the infected
district. From the beginning no case
of yellow fever has originated there.
DR.. Hamilton P. Jones, native Of
New Orleans, who had the fever in the
terrible epidemic of 1873, holds the
post of chief medical officer. He is
assisted by DR.. Charles FACET, DR..
James Burnie Guthrie DR.. Felix For
mento and DR.. Paul Emil Archinard,
pathologist. There are eight train
, ed nurses, women, the majority OF
whom have never had the fever; two
resident internes, eight orderlies and
a kitchen force.
The Tribune correspondent spent a
morning in the hospital, in which there
are forty-two certain cases of yellow
fever. The first floor is given over to
two wards for men, fifteen being in
each ward. The patients were in all
stages of the disease, those who had
not been sick more than three or four
days being in beds inclosed in mosqui-
to netting. 1t is only in the first three
or four days of the disease that the
stegomyia can become infected.
In one of the little iron beds near
the window lies an extreme case of
fever, an Italian, who was found after
he had been sick six days. His breath
ing can be heard all over the room. His
chest is heaving like the walking beam
of steamer. Across it, as if to hold
the motion within bounds, his arms
are folded and his hands clinched His
teeth are set, the lips being drawn
back by his suffering. Every part of
his body is the color of saffron and
his eyes are shut The man is dying
the surgeons say, and, every other pa
uent in the ward knows it. They
don't know, however, that a chronic
kidney trouble made his case hopeless
from the beginning, and his death
struggles excite his ward mates
I'VE should have a hospital large
enough to permit putting such cases
into separate ROOM" declares Dr.
Jones. THE excitement and depres-
sion caused by a ward death are one
of our handicaps."
IN THE WOMEN'S WARDS.
On the third floor of this improvis-
ed hospital are several small wards
for women. The rooms are uncomfort-
ably hot, in spite of the use of a num-
Der of electric fans, but most of the
patients are doing WELL One poor
Italian woman, who must have been
something of beauty in health. is
dying. She was brought to the hospital
from the crowded howell in which she
lived with her large family and where
she had received practically no treat
ment. Her case was hopeless from
the beginning, yet every effort was
made to save her. When it became a
matter of few hours, they sent for
her husband, and he was at her bed
side when the correspondent visited
the ward begging for one last word
from lips that will never speak again.
He was led away after a little by one
of the nurses
In front room on this floor is a
brighter picture. A mother and six
children, a step ladder family ranging
from girl of nine to a babe in arms
have just been pronounced GONZALES
cent. They were found in one of the
most miserable rookeries which the in
spectors have explored, and all were
SICK with the fever. If there had been
a day or two delay the names of some
OF them would surely have been enter
ed in the list of dead. AS it was they
spent ten days in the hospital and
passed through the several stages of
the disease without acute SUFFERING
The doctors at this hospital are max
ing most careful study of the disease.
and complete data are being taken of
each case. Blood smears are taken in
every case, and the doctors believe that
they will be able to work out trust
worthy means of Identifying the
disease. 1t is as yet too early to make
any announcement in thiS REGARD