Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-01-11
DR.. E. s. GOODHUE WRITES OF
HIS INVESTIGATIONS AND. PLANS

the man for the place, and as repre-
sentative of your Department, You
could fittingly represent the Terri
torial Government. If ] say anything
to the Governor at all about 1t, It will
be to state this fact.
Thank you for your courteous offer
as to my paper. II | can get time to
prepare It ! will gladly put 1t in your
hands for representation at the Con.
ference.
Yours respectfully,
November IL. 1908.
I. On the 18th inst, received a des.
patch from the Governors Office ask.
ing me II would go to Bergen to rep
resent the United States. at my own
expense. J wired back Monday 14th,
Yes, with the consent OF the Board
of Health
On the 14th came letters from Nor
way to my brother, addressed in my
care, and to myself. repeating the in
vitation, and accepting the titles Of
our papers which had sent. Accom-.
panying these were official Invitations
from the Norwegian Government ask.
ing us to. participate in the delibera.
tons OF the Conference.
DIR. w. J. Goodhue OF Molokai whom
I have tried to persuade to go, says
he cannot; but shall present his
work before the Conference and read
paper for him.
will also convey from Hawaii mel
and the U. s. Government any special
messages which may be entrusted to
me: transmit for the Board OF Health
the Leper Colony, The Hawaiian Ter
ritorial Medical Society or the Gov.
ernor himself, any expressions or
recommendation which they may de.
sire me to present to the Conference
I am going strictly as a representa-.
tive with an impersonal commission
II do not adequately do so II will
not be because | do not try. And a,
this Conference special attention will
be given to a discussion of the best
methods to be used by legislative
bodies to extirpate leprosy with the
least possible harm to lepers them.
selves. For the moral sense OF the
world Is coming to realize that to ar.
rest and imprison man because he
IL sick, is not Just to the man and that
It's results In diminishing leprosy in
communities have not been entirely
satisfactory or effective.
From a scientific standpoint I will
OF course make personal suggestions.
And may say that my brothers work
and my own are entirely distinct and
individual.
When I was offered the position
which he now holds, gave DR.. Slog.
gett my refusal for family reasons,
but I understand that the place was
offered me for work had already
done at that time.
As early as 1895 I advanced and
published a theory of transmission
through the mosquito. did not
demonstrate this. but my brother has
since demonstrated the presence of
the bacillus leprae In the mosquito;
and there It rests.
My present trail is along the lines
of immunity; peculiar blood condi
ton which from series of blood ex.
aminations points to definite soil In
which the leper germ will grow, and
without which no amount of exposure
can transmit leprosy.
Just where this trail of mine leads
to II is my business to find out as
soon as can get the opportunity
when the condition can be demon
strated as peculiar to leprosy land
several of the great leprologlsts have
kindly assure me OF their faith In IT.
we shall have the cure at hand simply
by artifclally producing the condition
| have said this much because
consider that, as a representative OF
the people, they are entitled to the
confidence.
That's all.
!! e. S. GOODHUE, NJ. d.
Holuoloa, Hawaii, Dec. 80, 1908.