The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-03-28
TUBERCULOSIS
PATIENTS CURED
NINETY PEN CENT. OF THE EARLY
VICTIMS or WHITE PLAGUE
RECOVER HERE.
lFrom wcndncsiay Advcrtlserl

With health and oven life itself with
in their very grasp, many persons in
Honolulu afflicted with tuberculosis
keep knowledge Of their condition from
tho health department, suffer in silence
and allow the dread disease 20 complete
its task Of destruction before they rca.
lizc that Il is too late to avoid the
Grim Reaper.
IL might DO callcd, was given out ycs-
terday by DIT. A. n. Sinclair, ~ the
board of health and head of the anti.
tuberculosis campaign now being sue
cessfully waged in the Territory.
This feeling of false modesty on
the part of sufferers is entirely unne-
cessary, when IL is known that infor-
nation thus given Co tho board of
health is treated with az sacred conf.
dence as if the patient had confded
his ailment to his family physician.
What is more, il is announced that
Doctor Sinclair will see to il that ev-
cry sufferer is given medical advice,
medicine and every assistance in recov.
ering health, absolutely without cost, If
tho patient is not financially in posi-
tion to meet the expense.
The Leah Home, with all that mod
ern science has at its command for com.
batting and curing tuberculosis is open
to sufferers, either without charge to
the patient or with the fees graded ac-
cording TO the means Of the person re-
ceiving treatment. The vaccine tuber-
cular treatment is used at the Home.
Records of this treatment show that
in the first stages of the disease ninety
per cent. of the patients treated are
entirely cured.
Cures Ninety Per Cent.
''The Leah Home has cured every
case of consumption in the first stages
il has treated, - said Doctor Sinclair
yesterday. az can safely state that
cures can be assured in at least ninety
per cent. of cases where the disease is
treated in its early stages.
"The trouble now is many of those
who are afflicted hide their suffering
from those who would save them until
the disease reaches such a stage that
only death can relieve them. In some
instances, when hope is all but gone
they reach out for the help which would
have rescued them had they acted soon
cr. Yet in some of these cases cures
are Effected
hose WIN arc IHe
tuberculosis campaign urge that per
sons who have the slightest intimatior
of tubercular trouble should immediate
ly consult their family physician. The
symptoms are not the same in all cases
They generally consist of gradual de
cline in health and steady loss o.
, weight, extending over period o.
months. Sufferers are constantly anC
- A-l L.,
. feeling of weariness. A rising temper
, ature in the afternoon is pronounce'
symptom, 1t is said.
:, If these symptoms are accompanie,
!, by a cough no time should be lost il
, consulting the family physician, or i
: the sufferer who is unable to meet tn
, expense of an examination, will appl
= direct to Doctor Sinclair at the dis
pensary he will be examined and al
rangements made for immediate treat
: ment There will be no publicity al
tached to this or any other detail i
l. the work of securing treatment.
o In the Early Stage.
a According to those who have mad
" a special study of tuberculosis, there
,. generally ample time on the part Q
the sufferer after first suspecting tn
. presence of the disease to effect cur'
r. The first stage is that of cattarrht
v condition, accompanied by much expe'
i toration. Then follows the secondar
!. or consolidation stage. Up to this tim
Al cure is generally assured. Then TO
n lows the third stage, when abscesst
Al form on the lungs, cavities develop an
recovery is doubtful.
=. "'The important fact to impress upo
r. every one all the time," said DoctC
ia Sinclair during a rest from his labo
% atory work yesterday, "is that of kee
. ing sunlight and fresh air on tap whe
"a ever possible. Cleanliness and ventil
a. tion of sleeping apartments are esse
At tial to healthy conditions. If theI
e. remedies, supplied so abundantly /
ar nature and within easy reach of a
n. are used tubercular germs can NJ
4. exist; in fact disease in any form wi
r. find it q hard task to find entran'
a. to any but the dark, damp, corne
where sunlight and fresh air are kel
* OUT
10 Tho health department, as resu
to of funds received from the Red Gro
stamp sale of few months ago, s
cured sufficient funds to add books al
less expensive literature to its lbrar
These are ut the disposal Of the publ
IN Each book and periodical is thorough
a fumigated before leaving the librar
I'd thus doing away with all danger
10 infection which might otherwise folio
a. the handling Of the leaves by affectC
T. persons.
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