Arizona republican., 1911-09-02
BEAUTIFUL
 HONOLULU Summer Paradise in lhe
 Sunset Sea MOLOkAI AND KILkUEA Dr. R. w. Craig Returns From His Summer Out ing. Journeyed to the Big Volcano and the Leper Colony.
LOKAI AND KILkUE

pr. R w. Craig who left here June 18th for the coast, returned yester- day from a tour that was planned to take him as far as Honolulu but which was extended as far as Victoria. B. C. by the death of Mrs Craig's father. Dr. J. C. DavIe, who was well known in Phoenix. The doctor had visited Honolulu anG was ;n San francisco. en route home when he was advised of Dr. Davies oeatn. Mrs. Craig. who accompanied op the tour. had remain cd in Honci.lu after his departure. but on being advised of her fathers demise, went to Victoria, where she now is hut will return home in about three V eeks.
 Dr- craig brings a story of his isI- and risit that is interest. not only as a story of travel but as matter of information regarding investiCa- tions along certain scientific lines. He left here June 9 to attend the annual meeting of the American Medical as sociation in Los Angeles and a week later left for San Francisco. thence for Hawaii. He says the trip to Honolulu is one of the finest summer outings anyone can take The climate is in- comparable the year round and tho city IS one of the prettiest places he ever saw and is well kept The health department of the islands is the best organized institution Of that kind he has vt-ifh i'm, hi
 and the doctor has done some travel ing in the two hemisphores.
 Last year the island government spent one-fifth of its total revenue through the health department. a seemingly astounding figure. but it got fine results. Situated in the path of cholrea and plague and with Ioprosy recognized as an island institution. the question of health is naturally of more importance there than almost any, where else. but it is being very nicely solved and the protection afforded cit izenship and the travelling rubIic is about all that science and the liberal use Of money can offer in this stage of the worlds progress.
 The United States army medical of ficer in Honolulu is doing some won derful work in the line of original re- search in connection with the study of leprosy. He has been looking for serum that may be used for it's prevention, much after the manner of the antitoxin employed in fighting diphtheria. Thus far he has not found a serum that is giving definite good rpCn1tC hrrt ic ft,l ho4 |, has accomplished one important step in being able to grow the leprOsy ba- cilli. something not heretofore accom- plished. and with which it is hoped a serum may eventually be produced
 The doctor visited the leper colony at Molokai and says he was surprised at the general appearance of the set tlement which is now composed of about 500 people. Though they are in for life. as it were. their lives are not all a desert. The village is a pretty one and the surroundings. aside from the terrible haunt of the disease. are inviting They have social life modelled very much after that of the outside world, including moving pie ture shows, a brass band, race track and other forms of entertainment. While all are afflicted with the dis ease that has marked them for isola- tion. more of them die from something else than from the wasting effect of leprosy Many die of intercurrent tu- berculosis or pneumonia, while other diseases claim their percentages as in the big outside world, so a Ieper even in ATn1alyaf 4a fn of some usefulness and die of some passing sudden ailment just as the people do in other parts. To such. in whom the disease has not far advanc- ed life in the island is robbed of it's pleasure only by the knowledge that prisoner like their field of activity must be limited.
 The doctor visited Kilauea of course Not to see the big volcano would be like going to New York and failing to ride in the subway. He not only wis ited the fiery furnace, but hung around it for two or three days with a sort of an indescribabe infatuation. Still he kept at a reasonably safe distance. more so than some people. He always planned to have a running start in the event the volcano undertook to pull off a stunt while he tarried in its pre- cincts. The seething crater few years ago was 500 feet below the big rim but now it has filled to within 15O feet of it. and to stand on the rim aforementioned and peer down into the reddened, boiling mass was about as close as he cared to get. The sight was a beautiful one at night and the doctor made three evening trips to the crater from the hotel about three miles l away. to view it, the intervening ground being cracked in places. with sulphur issuing from the crevices. One |