Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-11-10
CARTER "ON JOB
Continues from Psss y

Continues from Psss u
urally continued throughout my trip
East and added very much to It's
pleasure. I have taken pains to meet
experts and discuss various questions
with different city officials.
Irving Fisher. professor OF political
economy at Yale and author OF the ia
nous report on National Vitality: Its
Wastes and Conservation is n COL
lege mate and I spent a most inter-
esting evening with him. The State of
Kentucky has reprinted his report and
put II In the hands of each school
teacher. believing II should be read
and studied by everyone. Professor
as yet imperfectly developed and that
they can never become the power they
should be until
First: Public opinion better real
lies their usefulness and the fact that
their cost to taxpayers is saved many
times over by the prevention OF death
and disease.
Second: Until more and better
health legislation Is enacted; and
Third: Until special training per-
fects the new profession of health Of
ncer.
I'VE must give more support and
power to our Board of Health II we
are to have conditions as they should
be.
Pure air, pure water. pure ice. pure
mink, pure food. effective garbage re-
moval. notification and isolation OF dis
ease. improved and extended sewerage
as well as Its disposal, drainage. clean
streets. elimination of public and pri-
vate nulsances are essential factors In
our effort for health and healthier Ho-
nolulu.
the Board of Health Of New York city
out Of reach OF injunction or the delays
of law by requiring five days notice.
and then only from the highest court
OF the city. This It has done believing
that the members of the Board OF
Health are the best judges OF what
should be done In health matters, bet
ter than the courts.
AT Rochester Drs. Goler and Roby's
work In school hygiene has set new
standard. Chicago's Board OF Health
believes its research work justifies the
statement that the germs Of pneumO-
mia propagate In and around the teeth
and that mouth hygiene win control
pneumonia.
I'VE do not begin to realize the loss
and waists In Honolulu due to our fail
ure to establish thorough medical in
spection of our schools. II the native
Hawaiians object because Of any one
disease. then omit that. but save every
child that II Is possible to save from
defective sight, hearing and teeth, as
well as disease.
Save the child and you save the
state.
more and more we begin to reco~-
nize that we are entitled to demand
good health as well as liberty and the
pursuit of happiness.
more and more we learn that Pas
teur gave to man new hope, new ideals
and revolutionized the world when he
stated that man has the power to rid
himself OF every parasitic disease
Tuberculosis, typhoid, pneumonia,
smallpox. diphtheria, yellow fever;
cholera, deprosy and host OF others
viii some day be looked upon just as
we now look upon scurvy.
"The Panama Canal would have cost
more In time and money save for the
lavish expenditure on sanitary control.
our future cost will be greater than
to pay the bills now for drainage, new
streets and new sewers.
Every cesspool must be filled. Rats,
flies and mosquitoes must 20.
Sanitary legislation and sanitary
conditions are the incises OF advanced
civilization. Ignore them and we will
be judged accordingly"