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

ing Saturday the seventh annual meet.
ing, and having an outing at Wailele
yesterday. Reports of progress of the
hawaiian Territorial Medical Assoca.
ton were made and papers of import.
ance were read by different members,
| An important paper by DR.. Brinck-
erhon on 1.-THE Control of Leprosy by
| segregation" was read by DR.. Currie.
the author Of the treatise not being
able to be present.
| The problem can be concisely stat.
cd as follows" stated the writer:
Gan a chronic infections disease of
bacterial origin be controlled by the
isolation of the infected individual?
Reducing the problem to its simplest
terms and surprising II to be possible
10 recognize and to isolate each case
OF the disease In its incipiency, before
IL has communicated the infection to
another individual, We can answer this
| question at once In the affirmative.
In doing so, however, we must remem.
Der that we are surprising that we can
Isolate the diseased individual before
ne has communicated the disease to
another"
DIR. Sinclair opened the session with
an address, part of which is here
given:
Ladies' and Gentlemen Your MS.
senDiing here today marks another
milestone in the history of our organ.
iza'ion. The past year has been n sue.
cessflIl one for this society. The meet.
lhSs have been none too well attended,
Dill tho nt,il
| many and valuable. and make bold
10 say they have exhibited an expcndi.
turc OF time and talent UNSURPASSED
by the contributions to any similar or.
| Sanlzation. no matter where situated
The society has done its duty IN
, promoting the harmony II aims to es
tablisb In the ranks of our professor
II has brought us together and has
shown that we are not connecting
| against our fellow practitioners for
what there IL in it, On the contrary,
we are all working for the moral eie-
walton OF our calling. for the acquisi.
ton OF n more nearly perfect knowl-
edge or all things pertaining to sick
ness and health, as well as for the pro-
lection of the community against dis.
ease 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 unselfish In its aims
has not won us the appreciation IL
| deserved. Strange to say II has
aroused only antagonism and dispar.
agement. AS an example. refer to
the endeavors of this society to perfect
the laws regulating the practice of
medicine In this Territory.
In the past, our efforts In this di.
rection have met with nothing but ac.
| cusations OF mercenary 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 Northumberland there.
fore proht-seeking, pcrversion of facts
or culpably hasty or lakadaisical
snap judgment.
I'VE all feel the smart OF this un.
fair and undeserved criticism. Many
have expressed their unwillingness to
render this society liable to repeti.
ton OF such base attacks upon our In.
s.s,.s v, p",pose' NeVer,heIess, am
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80 .,',,, "',on, 'nel. - no, onc
must persevere In its purpose to Sc
cure a law, governing the practice of
medicine in Hawaii, better adapted to
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