The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-18
The subject OF public health is one in
COOPERATION WITH
FEDERAL OFFICIALS.


antne the health into close
relations and in respect of which there need OF CO.
operation In several this cooperation well
definite shape for economical we'll other purposes To
trae have been made by which the Offices
equipment and officers utilized for the enforcement
pure TODD laws OF the respective bv which Off
of the Federal Government has been loaned conducting
the campaign and by which the officers of the govern
ments cooperating in the matter of eprosy There
danger that Federal Government will take from the
Territory jurisdiction internal health long as the
Territory exercises it effectively
rrpposv During the last years many additions and i'm
provenents have been made at the settlement among
which special mention may be made of the general hospital the
ward for suffering from infectious and contagious dis
other than leposy and the nursery babies hospital
has been erected the Ka Receiving Station After vain
search OF several for site for the boys home
thought best delay longer and the boys brought
the Honolulu Quarantine Station, which has been utilized as
home for about during which time site has
tanned suitable building which the BOYS have
recently been moved small additional appropriation will
required complete the furnishing OF the home The girls
home nearby should have the old patchwork buildings
replaced by suitable buildings.
Hawaii well take pride the generosity humanity
with which she has treated those unfortunate afflicted
with this disease but the facts make clear that with even
greater humanity THERE be much greater
treatment pronounced change OF policy demanded by the
conditions Hitherto emphasis has been laid almost wholly up
On segregation the settlement with very imperfect results
segregation that did segregae Although policy
segregation has been pursued for years. believed
by of the competent authorities that many
epers Hawaii today were when segregation began
and beyond question that percentage epers among
the Hawaans much larger than then About
many epers the aggregate there then when
the population of Hawaans and parHawaians nearly
per cent greater It is apparent that if the disease is to he
substantially eradicated of peculiar Importance
Hawallan and of growing Importance Others change
must be made in the method of dealing with this subject Segre
CATION has doubtless been of great benefit particularly pre-
venting rapid spread of the disease but has failed
large owing partly the lack fear
the of the HaWaians and the dread of the
settlement with the result that there has been great
the effectiveness with which segregation has been enforced
the patients rule have not been segregated until well adj
vanced in the disease The number segregated different
within short period of time has varied from ~ to 58 and the
patients when segregated have been afflicted the average per-
hap four The present law enforcing segregation
should be repealed and law enacted simplifying
derng less harsh the methods of obtaining control epers
securing them ample protection against an incorrect decision
diagnosis greater privileges and effective
obtaining control of e and every opportunity possible
The prime need is obtain early stage as
possible when there is hope for and when perhaps
there greatest danger of transmission of the disease
This should be accomplished by such changes the law and its
administration will far possible those who
afflicted who have friends who afflicted the
the reported the better for both themselves others
1t will be necessary Also of other con-
agious diseases provide for contacts or
persons who have been particularly exposed the disease What
has been accomplished Norway years. ought
possible to accomplish here by similar methods Humanity
and safety are OF course the controlling considerations but
economy alone is sufficient Not to mention indirect losses
through the communy deprivation services of the af-
lcted and Dead the annual expense Of $I5oooo
den which the public should submit permanently when
by little extra the probably practic
ally expunged IN comparatively short time In order
this policy hospitals will be required perhaps on each of
the larger islands and funds will have be appropriated
their erection and maintenance.
The leprosaum for which Congress- made an augmentation
several years for the scientific investigation epos
settlement has been begun during the period and ap
preaching completion Arrangements have been made bv which
considerable portion Of the appropriation maintenance
may be used by its officers Honolulu elsewhere in the
Territory cooperation with the territorial department
which will need provide the necessary quarters for the work
rr1REpcuros1s Consumption or the Great White Plague
until comparatively recently supposed to be
ncurabe very recently has received little speca
ton, accustomed had people become it. Now while still
the most devastating OF diseases known be
most preventabe and OF the durable of diseases
on loot to stamp out In Hawaii the number deaths from
this disease has increased from about $50 year during
the last decade most OF the being of the pulmonary
acte 1t IS particularly dangerous people like the Ha-
Wallan who, by of having acquired only lately
the coming OF CIVILIZATION have acquired immunity
from it Although occasions deaths than other
people have become that they do not
give the attention deserves The facts however are of
startling nature and call for definite effective without
further delay recommend that law be enacted line with
the most advanced methods providing for the and
registration OF the dissemination of the requisite
ton for treatment and for proper safeguards against the
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