The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-02-27
PALAMA WELFARE
EXHIBITION TEACHING
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Many other bootts are Intensely in
iercsting, those Of the Infant s well
fare,n which occupies large place in
every womans heart, appeal 20 the
svmpathics. Here mothers are shown
the scientific methods in caring for
their little ones.
An Exhibit of the invisible.
One of the most striking exhibits
opened last night was that introduced
by the College of Hawaii on "pure
milk'' in particular with digressions
into bovine tuberculosis, bacteriology
and food analysis.
Imposing looking charts of the hui
man tuberculosis bacilli hung upon the
walls to back up the verbal arguments
of Professor Vaughan MacCaughey who
is in charge of the booth and willing to
prove to everybody's satisfaction what
bad germ win do when once he is
started.
The actual meteorological plates,
however, make this exhibition more at
tractive than any other feature in it.
Usually a mythical subject, bacteriol-
ogy has been taken bodily out of the
realm of text books and put up to the
public in its reality. The baeteriologi-
cal work exhibited has been done by
Miss Louise Gulick of the college, and
she has now about ten thousands col
onies of various sorts of bacteria, grow
/, ing before your eyes in this booth, and
all doing well, thank you.
Plate cultures from milk just taken
, from the COW and at various ages up
! to twenty-four hours, have been made
!, both of College of Hawaii milk, pro.
1 duced under absolutely clean conditions
To-, III
several colonies only have developed
7 from the college milk while thousands
: have grown and flourshed from the
!. market brand. One Of Professor Mac
Caughey's duties is to impress the fact
] that it costs the college no more to
{ produce its milk than the ordinary dairy
+ has to expend.
z. What the Rain Does.
Miss Gulick has also on exhibition
> two plate cultures of equal practical
y importance. One was made on plate
= which she held open to the air at Vic.
!; toria and King streets one day shortly
q after a shower. On this plate only
Z twelve colonies have developed. The
=, second plate was held open for the
= same time and at the same place but
I, u; when there had been no rain and the
q air was full of dust raised by automo
I. biles and cars. On this plate thousands
y Of colonies are growing.
x On still another plate were shown Q
i trail of meteorological colonies grow
a' ing in the wake of fly, almost eacf
q. of whose footsteps were marked by
VI. fourishing settlement Of germs. Those
ra who doubt may watch the colonies
8. grow in size from day to day until they
Z: cover the entire plate.
&. Slides have been made of the bac
" terra of each of the most well know
contagious diseases. These will be pu
Ia under the microscope whenever re
IS; quested.
- Anti-Tuberculosis.
II. Prepared with the assistance of tn
TE board of health, Palama Settlement an,
F. George r, Carter, one of the booth
A. has been devoted to an anti-tuberculosi
exhibit. Here are the maps of the Pa
o. lama Settlement showing the centers o
rs. infection, the other data, including on
le. map on which each case during 1911 i
d. marked by pin.
tsl Ex-Governor Carter IS ti-tuberculo
ar sis exhibits showing the conditions ur
ID. der which tuberculosis is spread an
nd how it can be arrested, are also in thi
ia exhibit, together with his fashligh
Al which goes out with alarming frequency
-,o each filter marking the death of
"a, human being from the great whit
~ plague, as one by one it's million annuS
n victims pass beyond.
NJ The collection of tenement. picture
~ taken by r. w. Perkins is also hun
70 in this booth, only the most striliin
w. being selected out of a total whel
every picture is hard hitter for
au change in the tenement system, and
le' quick one at that. All last night thel
ia, was crowd around these, satisfyir
ISIS themselves, sometimes reluctantly, thi
"A. conditions were just about as bad
no has been said and then some.
ies For Baby's Sake.
isa The adjoining booth is devoted
n Baby with capital B, the attendal
d being selected from the ranks of Il
;as Palama nurses. On one side of tn
IA booth hangs the placard "The Wrol
80 Way" On the other is announced q
n ~ Fright Way.
-. The tenement baby is represented
iss doll swathed in innumerable blanke
ne and wraps, most of them dirty, with
~ y, care for comfort or anything else.
" the other side of the booth is a d.
dressed to represent the way the ten
way ment baby should be kept Also the
b. are the right and wrong baby bottl
rse, and the innumerable things where
ias. mistakes not only can be made but
NIL variably are made by the uninstruct
rne, tenement mother.
Viii Here also there is fashlight bu
L. on the bob while under it is the legen
SON, 1880 babies die every hour.
iiss "8640 every day.
Irry "3, 153, 900 every year.
'en- And the light goes out every
wife seconds. Blazoned in letters grea
:hu- than all, the bottom of this fash
M. lettered with the words, "And one'h
,ata of these deaths were preventable.' ,
Local statistics are also present
SEQ, the infant deaths from 1900 to i!
I. A. being presented. Their summary she
Vol that 1851 babies died between the a