The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-10
CH|LDREN'S HOSPITAL

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| of infancy. A few years ago the gov
eminent census brought out the fac'
| that Hawaiian woman were the most
| prolific of any race, with one exception
| but that the percentage of deaths in
| Hawaiian families was also unusually
great, supposedly from the want OF
| knowledge as to the proper care OF
| their children. -
1.-The matter of such hospital seems
| to be one worthy of the attention OF
some benevolent person. To be salts
| factory it would have to be built and
| W ell-endowed. There could be govern
| ment assistance given, but the govern
| ment is pinched now for money and
| probably could do little. 1t might be
that the government loan could afford
to be partly used for this purpose. but
as q private institution the hospital
would be much more satisfactory. In
the present needs of Honolulu the hos
pital would not have to be very large,
although the demand would very prob
ably grow.
1.-The Queens Hospital, which is a
private corporation, is somewhat as
sisted by the government, but has all
the advantages of a private institution.
These advantages are great, especially
in keeping the institution free from pol
itics, which would be felt in a govern
ment hospital and certainly lower the
standard of it's efficiency.
The people who need a children's
hospital are found mainly among those
classes who live in unsanitary homes,
where the care of the sick is most diff
ficult, but the institution would benefit
all classes. Like all other hospitals, it
would come to be recognized as offer
ing better care and nursing than could
be had even in well-eQuipped homes,
while in treating the children Of the
poor it would benefit all by keeping
down and preventing the spreading of
disease among others.
There are already number of
places in Honolulu where children may
go and be taken care of, but these are
mainly places where the taking care
of needy children is an emergency af-
fair. The Salvation Army has an
orphans home, where many. cases are
given excellent attention. The Kona
Orphange is another place which is do
ing a great work and the regular de-
nominations are beginning to provide
Reform and Industrial schools, are all
doing much for the children, the In
dustrial school giving their boys a
more practical education even than
they could give them in the public
schools.
But there is no place especially de-
signed for sick children except at the
regular hospitals, the Queens, Chinese
and Japanese, which are not SO well
fitted for children as they are for
adults.
THE Free kindergarten societies are
finding a great deal of work to do
regarding the health of the children
brought to them and they have a wo-
man with medical experience who ex-
amines the children and treats them
for the various ailments. This gives
these children q service which they
could not get at their homes. The
nurses which have been lately engaged
to investigate tuberculosis in Homo
lulu, for the purpose of assisting and
treating afflicted ones at their homes,
have found great deal to do among
the children as well as among the
adults. All over the town they are
finding this work to do showing forci-
bly, the need of a well equipped hos
pital where these children might be
taken and properly treated.
Let us hope that somewhere, some
one will be found with an interest in |
this pressing need of assistance to the I
money at his command to relieve it"