Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-08-31
SAFEGUARDING Of HONOLULUS
Health Urged BY DIR. MCCORMACK


by Dr. J. N. Mccormack. of Kentucky,
chairman of the Organization Com
mttce of the American Medical Asso-.
citation and leading advocate of
broad policies in medicine.
DR.. Mccormack addressed an audi
cnce that practically filled the Ha-
waiian Opera House, although more
could have been crowded in Some
what remarkable for an occasion of
the kind. probably fifty-five per cent
of his hearers were women. II was
an emphatic proof that the women Of
Honolulu are interested In the health
and physical welfare of its citizens.
An extension of the present sewer
system so that II will serve the entire
city, the guarding of the purity of the
water supply and general precautions
to make and keep this one of the
cleanest cities in the world were
among the things urged by the distin-
guished physician. His talk, how
ever, dealt only slightly with local
conditions. Its main theme was the
necessity for broader work among the
medical profession ana Tor more
sympathetic attitude on the part oil
the pubic.
On the stage were the speaker, Gov
crnor Frear, Secretary Mott-Smith
and DR.. J, s. b. Pratt, President of the
Board Of Health. Governor Frear, In
introducing DR.. Mccormack, spoke Of
the progress of local sanitation work
and the position that Hawaii is to oc.
cupy in that respect.
own advocacy of better health condi.
tons. THE development of your sew.
err system until the city is adequatel!
served Is an important thing he
said. He spoke of the great natural
water resources here that should bt
conserved, and favored the proposed
plan OF building a sea-wall on the
waterfront at kewalo and filling II
lands until a great park ana boule'
ward is created there.
Getting into the main theme OF the
evening, he said In part:
AS part OF nationwide reform
one OF the most important, far-reach
ing ana unseliish ever undertaken
and as the Official mouthpiece o.
eighty thousand doctors VINO i've ID!
the cure OF disease, ] am here to pro
claim the gospel OF health, and TO tr!
TO persuade you men ana women that
with proper knowledge ana practice
OF the laws OF PLAIN, clean, heaith!
living, personal, domestic ana as com
munitles, good heaith can ana ough
to he MADE more contagious than SICK
ness.
"As an argument for peace 1t Il
often shown that 100000 men wer'
killed In both armies during the fiv'
years of the Civil War. In the move
ment for better living II may b.
shown that during the last five years
100000 people have died from tuber
culosis and 100000 from typhoid
fever, with an enormous sick ant
death rate from these and other dis
eases preventable with present knowl
edge. and with proper laboratory ant
research work by the government thi,
life-saving knowledge should be con
stantly extended. II may then b.
shown that while in the last ten years
our national government has yer!
properly expended $4O.0OO,0O0. ant
now proposes to appropriate YER!
much more, to prevent tick fever II
cattle, cholera In hogs and chickens
pests to crops and trees, and to pro
tect other interests having CONNER
cial value, in all of its history II hal
never spent dollar or lifted hant
to protect human beings from thes'
far more important domestic pesti
lences which bring constant sickness
SORROW and death into the homes o
the people. There are abundant ex
perts and funds at Washington to con
duct investigations anywhere, or Il
furnish literature in regard to an!
animal or plant disease, agriculture
resource, water power or other In
terest affecting business, but the citi
zen will inquire In vain for informa
ton as to how to protect his famil.
from preventable sickness. unless
be yellow fever, cholera or other ex