The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-09-27

not being made a government
She charges that ukuleles and guitars
are being made by the station attend
ants, without the least effort being
made to prevent them being handled
by the patients, and ARE then sold at
large in the city.
She charges that the delivery boys
from the Honolulu stores and provi-
sion houses are permitted to accept
money from the patients directly and
without sterilization and that this
money goes into the various city tills
and is handled in the ordinary course
! II business as change. These delivery
boys handle the lepers' money and
| then continue their rounds, delivering
| groceries and meats to city customers.
She charges that when the educated
| ones among the patients protest against
this disregard of the health of the
| public generally or enter any protest
against any other Of the various abuses
! hat have crept in, they are threatened
with reprisal by the caretaker and his
assistants and are warned that they
will be sent to Kalaupapa by the first
| bont if ever detected making com
plants.
Won't Obey Orders
She charges that the caretaker and
! his assistants refuse to carry out the
| instructions of the trained nurse at
| the station in the matter of special
| diets for patients under treatment, thus
retarding the work of the physician
Nnd hindering the prospects of cures.
| Because of the inability to secure any
sort Of intelligent cooperation in her
work, the trained nurse now at the
| station is resigning.
Mrs Macfarlane, who has been care
fully investigating complaints for the
vast several months, has been more or
'rs~ pvasively treated by the board of
health officials, while certain of ,the
lesser employees by whom she had stated
| she could prove certain of these charges
and even gravPr ones have been dis
missed from the employment Of the
honrd Of health before she could call
| upon them.
Some of the matters in her hands
have been laid directly before Governor
Mccarthy, who, Mrs Macfarlane states.
| rS showing a sympathetic interest and
'r"miScS action. Other matters she de
sir"1 t" bring directly to the attention
Of the public. both for the sake of
The unticnts in the receiving station
and for the sake of the public, which
j. being exposed to the worst Of all
diseases hv the very men who are be
ing paid to safeguard the public.
Demand Public Meeting
In a letter to The Advertiser, Mrs
Nnrfnrlane SAYS:
Editor Advertiser-No being Il R"
"'Ihlirnn. nor Democrat, nor SuffragettP,
| fen that can speak freely and with
ont fear of Misunderstanding a. T."
mutiNrs. At this critical time Of poll
tics, the matters hereafter referred to
would be good subjects for all poll
tirianS who desire to do the best to-
ward their country and their fellow
beings to take up for investigation and
20 demand n public meeting of the
board of health at the Kaihi Receiving
station for lepers. AS what I have t"
sneak Of concerns the public, such II
meeting should be public.
The isolation of the inmates of the
Kulihi and MOlokai settlements, and
th" rules and regulations which hem
l Them in being so rigid, abuses Of au-
thority accumulate, and attempts TO
correct these abuses are causes for the
transportation of the objectOrs from
honolulu to Kalaupapa. This impels
me to take this means of reaching tn"
public on benalf Of those whose voices
are stilled by the order of their keepers
Efforts Are Blocked
Abuses there have been, aud cOrrcc
lions have been infrequent, while often
| efforts made to meet with those charged
/ with the direction of the lives of these
afflicted people have, in my own eX
I,rrirnce, been blocked by obstacles
placed in the way. even to the quick
discharge by the board of health of
rhr very sub officials by whom these
. abuses could be proved.
~ Two serious complaints, but not the
] most serious, that have reached me
rrrrutIv are, first, the permitting Of
: HHwnilnn national guRrdSmaR "a Jap
. anrSe by the name or Takahashi) t.
enter the compound and visit the pa
. tirnts in their rooms, from there to re
T. turn to his camp and fellow guards
men without being fumigated. Think
Of him, probably carrying not only the
DREADED disease back to the thousands
! of boys in camp here, but, if called
: to the service in France, perhaps also
t carrying it to the American soldiers
there!
Secondly, the passing Of money from
the patients to dryers of delivery
wagons, the same coins bei1g turned