Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-03-23

| DIR. Hobby was introduced by former
Governor George r. Carter, who made
some preliminary remarks showing the
necessity of activity in combating The
| spread of tuberculosis and incidentally
complimenting the Legislature on the
record that it was making.
| Hobdy's Warning.
| In the course of his address, DR.
Hobby said
you gentlemen have, aside from
your legislative functions, certain
Weighty responsibilities resting upon
you. You are men of honor and of
influence in your respective districts.
That you are willing to accept these
responsibilities, that you are willing to
learn about sanitation, is fact that is
complimentary to you and about which
the Territory should be grateful
what | say to you about tubercu-
losis is of such vital Importance that
if I can convert you to the doctrine of
which L am going to speak, you are
going to work untold good for the Ter
ritory of Hawaii-you are going to
work untold good for the Territory of
Hawaii by going back and preaching
for better sanitation, better health con-
ditions But in talking about tubercu
losis I am going to give you the simple
facts, most of which have been known
for a great number of years.
Nov, tuberculosis is disease that
occurs in all ATTITUDES, in all attitudes,
in all meridians and in all climes. No
nation is free from the ravages of this
disease Almost every family has been
visited by this disease. There is no
one here who can not look back and
find some trace of this dread disease
the great white plague. What pangs
and anguish and long suffering, and all
caused by this same little tubercular
bacillus
Not only is it widespread, but it is
also deadly. From one-seventh to one
tenth of all the deaths in the United
States mot only the deaths, but the
worry are due to this disease. In our
own census report for 1909 (and l re-
greet that I have not the report forl
1910, little more than one-ninth of
the deaths occurred from this disease.
that report only contains
that form of tuberculosis which attacks
the lungs. Had that included the other
forms, the proportion would have been
much higher.
More than two million die annually /
from this disease. Now, such a disease
as this, being widespread and deadly,
exists among us at enormous econom- |
zeal loss. 1t strikes the young as well
as the old More than four fifths of
all the deaths are between the ages
Of fifteen.and sixty. If you assume the
annual earning capacity of each is $500
YOU can readily understand that 1t cost
The city of New York $23,000,000 a |
year. 1t is within the mark to say
hat it cost the United States from a
hundred and fifty to two hundred mill
ions of dollars year. Enough to pay
ror and equip battle fleet more pow
erful than that which called at this
place two years ago.
How Disease Spreads.
1T is turned into dust; it Is carried
away by the wind in every direction
md by their numbers are going to hurt
Every one of us. 1t will go to your
children and to my children, Disgust
ng as it may seem, there is no other
way of contracting the disease except
~ breathing in or swallowing 1t. Is
not a wonder that every man, woman
md child does not get it, before he
,omes to his end? Now, we have
earned first that 1t is widespread. that
t is dedaly, that it strikes early; that
I is thrown off by some consumptivei
ma that we get it only through breath
ne it i'm and swallowing it. For all
PRACTICAL purposes, that completes the
tory.
Il have related to you no pitiful eX-
,eriences have not attempted to
iwalien your sympathy, because |
Nj the deaths that occur in this coun-
ry from tuberculosis or all sickness
Inc To II, are absolutely unnecessary,
BECAUSE they are absolutely prevent
bile If there was someone in this ,
ountry with authority to enforce ,
ertain edict, new cases would stop oc- ,
nrring tomorrow and within two yenrs
his disease would disappear. After !
What | have said to you, don't you :
now what that authority should be2 ,