The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-02-06

ian fever. A species of typhoid had
! oeeh IN existence here for some time
which had never been investfgat ted
/ Lack OF time prevented local physicians
/ from hunting il up. He did nor know
VINO would do it for them unless Uncle
sam through the medium of the Hos
| pital Marine Service
| DR.. L. E. Golfer. head of the Hospital
Marine Service. responded to a general
cdH. referring to DR.. Herbert's ac-
count Of the Maui fever. he told Of his
observations in Mexico five YEAR,. ago.
| On the way to Ell Paso he met the
editor Of newspaper going with his
| family to New York, who told him a
| French company had a contract to
put IN sewers at Ell Paso, thing
never before attempted. The editor
told him he would find that the death
rate had gone up. On arrival at Ell
Paso he found that the death rate had
run up to 1900 a month in population
of $4,000, and a doctor he met did not
know what was the cause Sickness
was very prevalent among the poems
engaged in the sewer digging. They
would be taken with severe chiIls fol-
lowed by a sweat. Quinine brought no
relief and death resulted in many in
sances. Nobody pretended to throw
any light On that fever. There vas
evidently a paludal poison at work
DR.. Waterhouse said his idea of
malaria was that of all diseases in the
category there was none more clean
cut as to its etiology and its symptoms.
1t was defined as a disease caused by
plasmodium in the blood If it was
disease that was inhaled it would
not be developed in plasmodium in the
blood. There might be malaria with
out the anopheles mosquito, but there
would not be malarial fever without
the anopheles mosquito. This mosquito
was of the same variety in different
countries and could be recognized in
any country Another reason against
the theory of there being malaria here
was the absence of intermittent chills
and fever. The fever that led some
doctors to think they had met malarial
fever here was a remittent fever. The
aestivo autumnal fever of Italy was
unknown here. A man would not be
apt to have chronic malaria, which was
a secondary type. There We're a good
many cases of typhoid fever Or para
typhoid, which might have been mis-
taken for maIarial fever, particularly
where relapses occurred. The speaker
told of cases of fever in his practice.
At Kamehameha Schools a fever that
formerly prevailed had all but disap-
peared since a distilled water appara-
tus was adopted. The boys used to
drink tap water after they became
heated playing ball. Native Hawai-
ians in considerable proportion were
very liable to auto-toXication, and a
cause given by the speaker was the
persistence of ferments in their sys-
TENS. Parents would say their chill
dren had eaten nothing but on wash
ing out their stomachs grape skins. |
etc, would be found. DR.. Waterhouse
agreed with DR.. Herbert as to desira-
bility of investigating the type of fever +,
in question. He thought there were a
good many cases of typhoid as proved !
by clinical symptoms. Though he had |
never seen a case that had spots here, |
yet the other symptoms We're present |
UNCLE SAM MAY ACT.
DR.. Cofer said about Uncle Sam do !
ing something, he thought it no more |
than right that the Government should |
pay for archaeological Investigations. |
1t would not do any harm if physicians |
gave material to any man sent here. |
of the water would be |
part of that work. He referred to this |
matter because Governor Carter men |
toned in his report that, with the open
ing of the Panama canal we should un
1oubtedly have malaria, which we have
not had. 1t has been recommended to |
the Washington authorities that we
should have a health commission of
three members, one to represent the
Territory, a member of the Marine
Hospital Service and an engineer of the
army. One member of the commission
ought to be a bacteriologist.
THE MALARIAL MOSQUITO.
Professor D. L. Van Dine of the
United States Agricultural Experiment
station, at this stage was asked to adj
ress the meeting. He stated that the
pecies of mosquito responsible for
preading yellow fever they had here.
t was common throughout the group.
n all his researches he had not seen {
single specimen of the anopheles.
)r. Walters had asked him to come
here and he had prepared a map show
lg the world distribution of the
nopheles and written something about {
q. If the physicians would take inter- t
st enough in the subject to collect the I
arious specimens they found in con-
ection with their cases, it would result &
a great deal of data which would :
ter aid in the solution of the subject. c
rofessor Van Dine then read his pa a
ar. entitled, "MalariaI Mosquitoes of i
lie Genus Anopheles." Space does not E
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