The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-03-04
death PINS ON
MAP STARTLING
Statistics OF tuberculosis In
Honolulu Shown With
Vivldness.

with the exception of eleven cities
IN the United states, Honolulu has u
highest percentage of tuberculosis
cases. per one hundred thousand, than
any municipality ON the mainland. sta
tistics gathered by the board of health
show Honolulu with an average of 32l
cases to the ono hundred thousand,
while the average for the cities in the
United States is but 204.9. OF the
eleven cities which have a higher aver
age than this city, two arc Denver, Col
orado, and Los Angeles, California,
both cities which are meccas for suffer
ers from tuberculosis. The others with
the exception of Norristown, Pennsyl-
vania, and Jacksonville, Indiana, are
still in the South, where the negroes
who are peculiarly susceptible to the
disease, are in the majority.
Portraying the board of health fig
ures in a startling way, Superintendent
Rath, of Palama Settlement, has COM
pleted a map of Honolulu on which
black-headcd pins mark the known
cases of the disease and deaths due to
it,, during the year of 1912. There are
Just 236 of these somber sentinels
standing guard on the map and at q
glance one may see the part that pow
SINN, lthtlHthlo, ana COuul-
tions play in the culture of the disease.
A circle on the map covers radius
of three. fourths of mile from King
and Iiliha streets, and in this district
the black. headed pins are so numerous
as to cover the original color of the
map underlying them, and visualize the
plague spot as black spot on the city.
Death Rate Reduced.
In 1911, according to Rath, sixty
four per cent. of the known cases of
tuberculosis were found in this district.
During 1912 this percentage has been
reduced to forty.eight per cent, show
ing the benefit of the work performed
by the Settlement and the board of
health.
lac other cases are for the most part
scattered well over the city, with Ma
kiki the only portion in which no black
| pin appears.
The block in which the Queen s Hos
pital is located, shows quite little
groups of pins and Kakaako comes Sec
ond to the Palama district in the num-
Der of cases.
On another chart which Rath has
prepared, the known cases are given
by enumeration districts, divisions Gre
ated to facilitate the keeping of rec.
ords of all cases found. This chart
shows that in the district between Asy-
lum road and Liliha, and King and
School streets, there are twenty nine
cases.
Between School and Beretana and
Nuuanu and River streets, there are
fourteen cases.
| Between Alapai and Emma and Luso
and King streets, there are nineteen
cases. and between Kukui and King
and Liliha and River street there are
fifteen eases
Map Is Startling One.
Rath points out that the cases
shown on the map and chart are but
those known to the board of health
and that there are undoubtedly other
sufferers from the white plague who
have not been included in the enumer-
alton.
Those who have seen Rath 3 map are
of the opinion that 1t will prove
striking object lesson wherever it is
displayed, and that it might well be
used in showing the members of the
legislature the need for radical action
in cleaning up the plague localities.