Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-11-23
MEDICO'S' HOLD
annual MEET
Opening Session Saturday
And WaileIe Outing
Yesterday

:" ''"H''" ioT tne past TWO days, open.
ing Saturday the seventh annual meet.
ing, and having an outing at wailele
Yesterday. Reports Of progress of the
Hawaiian Territorial Medical Assoca.
ION were made and papers Of import.
ahce were read by different members.
An important paper by DR.. Brinck.
erhof on "The Control OF Leprosy by
segregation" was read by DR.. Currie.
me author of the treatise not being
able TO be present
The problem can be conciscly stat.
ed as follows" stated the writer:
can chronic infectious disease OF
bacterial origin be controlled by the
isolation of the infected individual?
Reducing the problem to it's SIMPLEST
terms and surprising II to be possible
10 recognize and to isolate each case
OF the disease in its incipiency, before
II has communicated the infection to
another individual We cen answer this
question at once In the affirmative.
III dong so, however we must remem.
per mat we are surprising that we can
isolate the diseased individual before
ne mas communicated the disease to
another"
Dr. Sinclair opened the session with
an address, u part Nof which is here
given:
Ladies' and Gentlemen: Your as.
scmbling hero today marks another
limestone IN tho history of our organ
cation Tho past year has been a sue.
cessiui one Tor this society. The meet.
ilSs nave Deen none too well attended
pu' 'he PAPERS contributed have been
many P.hd valuable. and I make bold
10 say they have exhibited an expendi.
."rc %! time and talent unsurpassed
ny the contributions to any similar or.
SaniZation. no matter where situated
THE society has done it's duty in
promoting the harmony II aims to cs
tablish in the ranks Of our professor
IL has brought us together and has
SHOWN that We are not competing
against our fellow practitioners Tor
what there is in II. On the contrary
we az all working for the moral ele.
walton OF our calling, for the acquisi
'ion OF more nearly perfect knowl
edge OF all things pertaining to sick.
ness and health as well AS for the pro
lection of the community against dis
case and death.
Not only during the past year, but
for many years previously. the work
that was the least bounden duty of
THIS society to perfOrm-the work that
was actually most unsclfsh in its aims
has not won us the appreciation 1t
deserved. Strange 10 say IL has
aroused only antagonsm and dspar.
agemcnt. As an example, | refer to
the cndeavors of this society to perfect
the laws regulating the practice of
medicine In this Territory.
''ln the past. our efforts In this di,
rcction have met with nothing but &C
cusations of merccnary and other per.
sonal motives. The membership of
this society has been alluded to as
The Medical Trust and other terms
equally indicative Of an inane wit
and of either knowingly and there.
fore profltsoeking pcrycrsion of facts
Tor culpably hasty or lakadaisical
snap Judgment.
I'VE all feel the smart OF this I'M
lair and undeservod criticism. Many
have expressed their unwillingness to
render this society liable to II repeti.
ton of such base attacks upon our in
tcgrity of purpose. Nevertheless, | am
certain that II the matter is given ma
ture consideration, there is not one
of MS but will agree that this society
must pcrscyerc In its purpose to SO.
cure law, governing the practice of
medicine In Hawaii, better adapted to
protect the Ignorant and o+edulous
from the charlatan and quack, than
that now In force.
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