The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-11-24
How Tuberculosis Should Be Met
and Fought in Territory
Absorbing Subject
ABLE PAPER IS READ
BY DR.. c. %. COOPER
Adoption Of Scientific Methods
and Treatment and coopera-
ton Are Only Solution

After devoting part Of the afternoon
Saturday and practically the entire eve
ming 70 the subject Of tuberculosis, and
tho problems which il presents, the
members Of the Medical Society Of Ha.
wall REQUIRED TO that subject again yes.
tefday WHOM DR.. G. y Cooper read a
paper on how the great white plague
should be met in tho Territory.
His argument was for effective ter.
ritorial control, to bring together INTO
close coordination and harmony the wa.
rious factors now working against ,tu.
bcrcdlOsis. He said that this. proposi-
tion undoubtedly would come before
the next legislature for its considera-
tion.
A length of discussion followed tho
reading Of Doctor Cooper 5 paper, and
when the discussion closed, the election
Of officers for the ensuing year was
Colonel Reynolds President
Col f.. p. Reynolds was elected
president, DR., II. P. Nottage, VICE pres
idont; Or. n. T.. Trotter secretary ana
Or. Z. d. Kilbourne, treasurer. Drs. II.
5 VI Murray and G. b. Wood were ap-
pointed TO the executive committee
The convention closed last evening
with q banquet at the Country Club.
Governor Pinkham was one of the
guests Of honor at the affair.
Doctor Cooper summed up his paper
with the following conclusions:
That tuberculosis is a contagious and
infectious disease and is curab1e under
favorable sanitary, climatic and thera.
pcptic conditions
Effective control Of the disease can
only be gained BY same legislation. aiv-
ing government control. and the cooper.
alton Of all units engaged in Tie work.
INCREASING educational cifofts are most
7 pnpQrtamt fess+
Adequate financial means 20 carry out
dispcnsary, hospital, sanitariunf and
farm colony plans; such funds to be
raised by a specific tax for this specific
purpose. lr6 ta3 t.sa
Economic Management
Economic management, avoiding du-
plieation .of plants and overhead
charges; seeking TO give patients every
possible advantage in the way Of cir
mate, location and best scientific moth.
DDS by treatment. @
The hest immediate results are 10 be
obtained by the isolation Of ineurable
consnmptiyes, aud sanitoriums for the
durable cases; by preventing the spread
of infection and gradua..y reducing the
mortality from tuberculosis. Indirectly
society is paid very handsome profit
on the investment a
These are from the paper as sufhmar-
v 4 " II n D.
tween the lines one may read some
criticism Of the unequal distribution of
the cost Of the am. tuberculosis cru.
SADIE, such as where he says that tho
money for sanitanums should be raisu,.
by u specific tax.
Statistics Are Cited s.
Somewhere in his report he read the
ratio table which was prepared for tho
governors report bysDr. AN. Sinclair,
superintendent Of the anti.tubercItlosis
bureau. BY this table ft Is shown that
the tuberculosis cases i'm year amount.
cd TO 694, more than half % which OF
$50 cases, were Asiatics. While not
Eaying 20 directly, the general tenori Of
his paper was that the Asiatics were
getting a vast adyantase from the
anti-tnberculosis work, and y0t contrib
ating nothing, or practically nothing.
Doctor Cooper ID the head Of a com
mission appointed by Governor Pink
ham at the instance Of the board OF SUI
PerSisoFs last July, and his report gives
some OF the facts found while making
On investigations for the commission.
The other members OF this body are DR.
A6chef Irwin, a, a. Young, II. o. Math.
espn and Riley Allen.
Stress Upon Education ~
The physician put much stress upon
the Importance of edncation in connec.
tion with tho fight against the plague.
This is one striking paragraph on this
phase of the subject:
Three important factors concerned
with the effective prevention OF the dis
ease arc, a knowledge Of the means of
transmission, a recognition Of the inn,
fortanee Of social and personal environ.
ments, and a conviction that If taken
carly and properly treated the disease
may be arrested or cured. A Knowledge
Of the SOURCES of infection has been a
more potent element in the institution
of sound measures OF prevention. Her,
editary transmissi0n, formerly thought
To- be one OF the most ipIpoFtant lnodeslof
conveyance, Is now believed to play a
Very minor rola. IA few eases OF con.
genital tuberculosis occur, but the NUM-
her reported In man is very small y "a
Subjects Included on Program
The following made up the program,
I" How Can the Problem of Tubercu
losis Now Confronting the Territory
Rest Be Metf' Argument for effective
territorial control, DR.. @. AB. Cooper.
Discussion opened by DR.. George Her
bert. ,a
8 Gastric Neurosis,'' Capt. y. A.
sehlanser Discussion opened by DR.. Q, ]
Il Wood
Acute Dilation Of the Stomach, -,