The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-09
for an average Of 6

for an average Of 6
months we will have
200 per year, 200 x 81 !.
$500 ....-........... 1895, 10000
Saved TO the state for each
year per 100 constantly I'M
der treatment.
If it is supposed that half of these
might have obtained these results with
out public aid, may we not balance this
with the reasonable probability that
each patient who dies of tuberculosis
infects one other person2
| believe these estimates to be con
servative and that the actual none
tary value to the state greater than
here estimated, not to mention the
suffering saved. -
VIII the people abide by such rules
or laws? l think they will. To sub
stantiate this, every sanitarium that is
conducted by the government, or by
charity, in the states is today over
crowded, with many on the waiting
list.
/ recall now two eases Of tubereu-
losis who waited over two years to
obtain admission TO a sanitarium in
Pennsylvania, and this sanitarium
charged s. per week.
The general public is beginning to
awaken TO the great havoc tubercu-
losis is making with them.
As an indication of the trend of
public sentiment, | read somewhere re-
Gently that now most all newspapers
will accept and print any article no
matter Of what length dealing with
tuberculosis.
1t shows the reading public, eonse-
quently the thinking public, is alive to
the danger from tuberculosis infection.
Naturally, there win be some against
it, but is there any good, sound measure
that does not meet with opposition?
What will become of the family Of
the patient?
Should it be the daily wage-earner
of the family that is afflicted, thus
leaving the family in want, what shall
be done then2
/ say let the government, city, eoun-
IL. state or whatever form of govern
ment It may be take care of them until
he is restored TO them in health. For
our social conditions are, / think, re-
sponsible for his condition, and our
government is responsible for the So
cial condition, hence ought, to say the
least, take care Of him and his family.
It is not too great price to pay TO
save a citizen to the country.
According to Browning's tables, so.
per cent. Of all ineipient cases Of tuber-
culosis treated in the Massachusetts
State Sanitarium are cured IN SIX
months.
Is it not cheaper to keep the incip-
lent case than to keep the belfast
and his family2
If a man dies, it devoIves on thei
government or charity 10 take care OF
his people f they are in want.
What difference, whether he is sick
Of tuberculosis. with a chance TO get
well. or is dead of tuberculosis. His
family must be taken care Of when IN
want
Under some such means Of limiting
the infection we viii have done all we
can in the domain Of preventative
medicine
These patients who suffer from tuber-
culosis need not be rigidly isolated
from their families, for il is not the
casual meeting with the tabefcuiaf pa
tient that the Infection is spread, but
Il Is in the continued contact with the
patient or his surroundings that the
great danger Of infection lies.
Thev could be visited by their FAM
lies the same as in any other hospital.
In concluding, let me say that We,
as medical men. should make the ear
lest diagnosis possible Of this disease,
and we Should not hesitate to tell the
na+ien+ that he or she has tuberculosis.
We must cooperate with the public
in securing proper preventative sanI-I
tarv measures.
Conquer we shall, but we must first
contend:
IT'S not the fight that crowns us, but
the end ''-Herrick.
Fl. T. HOLMAN.