The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-04-05

H'"''us tho great expense. Ihe apes
arc 20 be procured through the Amer.
lean consular representatives IN Poftu-
gucsc Enst Africa and to bring them
here will cost the government over
$500 for each animal The chimpan-
ices arc affected more than almost any
other animal with nostalgia, by which
term the scientists mean Inconsistencies,
and manyo of them literally refuse TO live
in confinement, pining their lives away.
This adds to the difficulty of conduct
ing experiments with them and also
adds greatly to the cost Of the expert.
ments.
Dir. Brinckerhoir. the Federal medical
officer to be in charge of the leprosa.
rum and under whom the experiments
will be carried out, purposes devoting
large part of his laboratory to hous-
ing the apes when they are first brought
to the settlement, devoting to them
the entire upper floor of the building.
Here they will live, in direct touch
with the Federal physician and his
assistants. accustoming themselves to
be handled, learning to forget their
African home in association with the
humans of the station and gradually
acquiring confidence in those around
them, who will do whatever is posi-
BILE to win this confidence. All this
while the apes will be left in their
natural healthy condition, neither in.
fected animal nor leper being allowed
in this portion of the leprosarium,
which is to be the working quarters
of the pharmacists and bacteriologists.
After the apes are inoculated they
will be placed in specially prepared
animal house in the large compound in
the rear of the hospital proper. Here
also will be kept whatever other ami
mails it may be deemed judicious to
experiment with, for other animals are
to be used in the systematic and ex-
haustive experiments it is the inten-
tion of DIR. Brinckerhoff to carry on.
1t is from the apes, however, that the
great results are to be looked for,
because their close relationship with
man will show what can be done with
man in the alienation and possibly
the cure of the disease. One thing can
certainly be said, and that is that
if it is humanity possible with the pres.
ent knowledge of the scientists in
charge Of the station and the ultimate
knowledge of the disease they will OBJ
tain from their work at Molokai for
a cure for the hitherto uncurable dis.
ease to be obtained it will be obtained.
THE LEPRoSAR1UM.
periments towards the cure of leprosy
be carried on with the same advan-
tages and with the same hope of ulti-
mate success as at the Federal lepro-
sarium at kalawao, one of the two
Molokai towns peopled by the lepers.
And at no other spot on earth are
of the battling disease to be more COM
plete than they are at this leprosarium.
Just at the present time red tape is
interfering with the active work of
erecting the big hospital, but Uncle
sam will not always be unwinding this
'ed tape nor hampered with its twists,
md when the hospital is started it will
% carried through to completion with
IS little delay rs possible One hun
lred thousand dollars has already been
voted for this work for the building
If the leprosarium alone, while the
equipment will be otherwise provided
'or. DIR. Brinckerhotf has spent much
ime in figuring out the arrangements
or the various wards, pharmacy rooms,
laboratories, operating rooms and
rounds and being unlimited in ex-
ense money has planned an ideal
cientific workshop, such as will be the
my of the medical scientific workers
he world over. For the carrying ON
'h0 WIN LUZ the iutufe, ING Oulteu
tates government will allow him fifty
dollars year. In no coun-
ry at any time has the matter of
lily investigating this disease and find
lg possible remedy been taken up
} thoroughly or systematically and
no time in the history of the world
ave the chances for finding cure
'emed so bright.
THE DISEASE ABATING.
Even as it is, by reason Of the vigor-
Is policy of segregation carried on
theoretically by the Board of Health
the Territory of Hawaii, in the face
the passive opposition and some
mes of the active opposition of the
awaiian people, the disease in the
awaiian Islands begins to show some
sns of abating. AT one time the
mber of those confined in the Molo-
i settlement, hemmed in between
citing crags and rocky and rough