Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-06-17
Victims of Dread White Plague
Have Everything Done to
Mitigate Suffering

Leahi Home may soon be more &C.
cessible to those who are interested
In one of Honolulu's most beneficial
institutions.
Maybe some do not know where
Leahi Home is located.
1t Is out 10 Kaimuki, up Twelfth
avenue and at>the end of Sunset ave-
nue., tucked away almost in the shade
Of Diamond Head. for which it is
named. 1879
What is Leahi Home? 1t is where
tuberculosis patients receive free and
expert medical attention and surgical
skill; where shady trees and soft
breezes cool the brow that's fevered
from the hacking cough; where un-
fortunate and destitute men, women
and children have a pretty home with
lots Of care and comfort.
And now Twelfth avenue may be
paved, and II it is the Rapid Transit
Company has promised to have q
bus" to climb the long hill from the
end Of the Waialae road carline. So
said one of the officials of the home.
Then the patients friends will have
easy access to the home and visitors
en1ay come easily and for only cents
II is understood that a petition from
\ the residents on Twelfth avenue ask.
ing for pavement has been sent the
supervisors. .fs p,
Few Visitors Come Now. s..: &
But does anyone want to visit the
home?
Those in charge say visitors are
scarce and timid. | But there's no
danger, they say, and the Leahi PEG.
pie would like to see visitors and let
them know in what fine place they
live. Some OF the incurables at the
home haven't moved out of their cot.
tages for dozen years and a friendly
word and a bit of gossip from the
waterfront or beach goes well with
them.
Those who have never seen the
home have little idea of its nature,
extent and pretensions Even those
who have seen 1t would hardly know
the place If they journeyed to the hill
top today and saw the new buildings
the trees and the fences added re-
Gently, ~
To Have x-ray Apparatus.
Dr. Al. N. Sinclair, superintendent
of Leahi Home, Is now in the East on
business. He is purchasing $4,000
X-ray machine, which will materially
assist in the fight against tuberculo
sis. -. -, ~. i ....e.
With the big apparatus we can
take pictures of the lungs and locate
Immediately the disease" says Rob
ert s.. Anderson, assistant superinten
dent and now in charge. This viii
obviate older and less satisfactory
testing methods. The disease Is then
cured by closing up that part Of the
lung afflicted
Anderson says quarters are now
ready for the new apparatus, which
will probably arrive with DR.. Sinclair
I-early In August DR.. Sinclair is one
Of the best informed authorities or
tuberculosis in the West and went t.
London in 1911 to study under the
worlds greatest experts. Through his
excellent care several patients have
oeen cured and discharged from Lea
hi Home. ... =.
But patients aren't all to be found
at Leahi Home. Although they are
the main issue and, are given every
possible attention, many things of in
terest subsidiary to and necessary fol
the big idea are flourishing. ~
Has Poultry Yard and Dairy. s.
What would you think of a chicken
ranch in connection with a tubercu
losis home; and dairy, too, and .
complete steam laundry: also adjoin
ing acres sprouting feed for the chick
ems and cows? All of this is at Leahi
under expert supervision and helpini
to defray expenses of the institution
Anderson also had a garden at one
time. but hadn't the room to continue
| with it.
The poultry farm is one of the hes
in the island and any chicken fanciel
could easily realize this by few mo
ments spent in the yards and pens
Yet all this is a part of the home
The eggs and the chickGls go to thu
l kitchen; the money from the sales. II