The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-11-19

paper dealt with statistics and reports
OF experts on conditions past and pres
emf IN cities using filtration plants, TIE
most marked, pernaps being that of the
twin cities of Hamburg and Altoona
during cholera epidemic in 1892. One
had d filtration plant and the other had
none. The cholera seemed To absolute
" stop right on the boundary line,
although the water supplied 10 the
city with the filtration plant was foul
ed by the sewage of the city where
TIE choiera was most prevalent.
Statistics for Honolulu for the past
ten years showed d terrible increase
during the careless boom times, a sud
den fall after the Chinatown fires in
1900 and the installation OF the sewer
age system, but q steadily increasing
rate since then. showing the immedi-
ate necessity of action in the matter
The Doctor has prepared some very
instructive charts on the matter by
way of illustration which were hung
up IN the meeting room. Both the
charts and the paper in full will be
found in the Advertiser of tomorrow
DR.. Wood called attention to the
danger from the camp alongside the
Nuuanu water supply ditch He said
he had already taken the matter up
with the Governor, who promised i'm
mediate attention.
DR.. Humphris suggested a committee
to discuss the matter with the gov
eminent officials. Dr. Day was APP
pointed chairman of the committee,
the remainder to be appointed later.
DR.. A n. Sinclair, physician in
charge at the Victoria Hospital for
Consumptives, presented a technical
paper or" tuberculosis Pulmonalis-Ref-
erential to Classification which held
the closest attention of the medical
men present. He recommended for
consumptives plenty of fresh air, not
necessarily hot sunshine, but the pure
air of a veranda. Leahi Home he con-
.siders well located for a consumptive
hospital
DR.. Humphris and DR.. Wood urged
that some Hawaiian millionaire should
endow the Leahi Home SO that hos
pitaI could be equipped for the treat
ment of possible durable cases.
Drs. Hodgins and Day suggested
sanitarium for treatment of such cases.
Health said IS per cent. of the deaths
Of Honolulu We're caused by tubercu-
losis.
DR.. P. S. RosSiter, surgeon, U. S. N,
gave an interesting dissertation upon
diphtheria epidemic of 1903 in a naval
training station in Rhode Island. Out
of $50 cases, not a death occurred.
DIR. A. G.. Hodgins, head physician
OF ha NTa&
fully prepared paper on Infant Feed
ing in Hawaii" He strongly urged
mothers milk, but discourse ed as
strongly any wet nursing under the
conditions existing in Hawaii. He said
cows milk here is superior to that on
the mainland in the particular of
health of cows, owing to fhe fact that
cows are not here kept in close barns,
as in the States, but in the open air.
Next to cows fresh milk, he recon-
mends condensed milk. Taroena he
also favors.
Dr. Wood showed some dry milk
patented by Harold Mott-Smith in
Paris. Il
DR.. Sinclair strongly opposed using
condensed milk. DR.. Moore claimedel
the condensed milk is sterilized while
you can't always say as much of fresh
cows milk. He had never heard of
a case of illness due to condensed milk.
DR.. Emerson claimed the case varied
with different COWS.
DR.. Humphris also supported con-
densed milk as superior to fresh milk.
Unless there was a trained nurse to
see that the fresh milk was properly
protected he preferred condensed milk.
DR.. L. E. Golfer related several in
teresting incidents connected with the
milk exposures in San Francisco. A
fake cream made of SKINNED milk,
some coloring matter and a few drugs
was found among other things.
Dr.. Wayson announced that the trip
to Waialua was off.
DR.. J. r. Judd, surgeon at the |
Queens Hospital, read a highly tech |
nical paper on "Perinephritis, with re-
port of four cases.
Adjourned.
NOTES.
The platform was decora ted with a |
fine oil portrait of DR.. H. C. Sloggett, !
draped in crepe, the doctor being the |
most recent member of the Association |
to die
The program for today is a clinic at |
the Queens Hospital at a. m.
The next session will be held at 3 |
p. m. tomorrow.
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