The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-04-01

simply a migration of bacteria already
IN the glands.)
Proper Health Conduct
There is nothing obscure or un-
known to the average, educated, per
son in regard to how to keep healthy
and fit so as to resist the disease:
it is simply to observe the well-known
laws of health. We must have an
%all-around good diet; with special en-
phasis in regard to milk. We must
have sufficient exercise but not to eX-
haustion; we must have clean living
quarters with elbow room; and we
must have fresh air day and night.
In order to have good air at night we
must wage war on the mosquito-Wai-
luku please take notice!-so that
with screened houses the suffocating
mosquito netting may be discarded.
The netting is particularly suffocating
and deadly in warm localities shut off
from the tarde wind. Those living
in such localities should also by all
means have sleeping porches.
1t is important also to have our
teeth in order, and if our children
have diseased tonsils and adenoids
these should be removed by operation
and we should protect ourselves
against the common epidemic, dis
eases, such as measles, scarlet fever,
and whOoping cough, for not infre-
quently a child RECEIVERS from these
diseases only to fall a victim to tub
e~rCulosis.
1t is just a case of keeping ourselves
in good general health and of helping
others, whether rich or poor, to do the
same; and herein lies the line of
work in which the Woman's Club can
be, and is, of particular value.
The Kula Sanitarium
The history of the sanitarium has
been a gradual evolution from the
tentage to the present large collection
OF buildings and cottages. While there
is still-and l hope always will be
much to be desired and improved up
on, yet l feel we have in it a very
creditable institution. Whatever may
be said in criticism there is this TO be
remembered, that every year has
shown considerable improvement.
DR.. Durney has been the head of the
sanitarium since its infancy. There
must have been Unborn in him the
pioneer instinct, for otherwise he
would have given up the job long ago.
His position has been a difficult one,
requiring much patience. He has
beer in the continual state of always
wanting something more, because al
ways something more is badly need
ed. | will say here, however, that the
supervisors have always been in
sympathy with the institution, and
have helped financially and otherwise
as much as any one could expect. AL
so, the territorial board of health
have been of much assistance. The
sanitarium is far removed from any
center, making it difficult at times to
get supplies. DR.. Durney has had all
our n~ationalities to deal with and each
must be dealt with differently, especi-
ally in the everlasting difficulty of
diet. To feed patients of a single ma
|tionality, who have a long, lingering,
illness is hard enough but when there
are patients of several nationalities,
it must tax the patience of a job. His
help has always been mainly en-
patients and these eX-patients often
must not do hard work lest they re-
lapse, and sometimes they resent do
ing any work at all.
At the end of the fiscal year 1912
(about So years ago. there were only
10 patients in the institution; during
IN H. NtuA "NlN w
cases treated. During the year 1913
1914 the average number treated per
month was "a; whereas during the
past 6 months the average per month
is 135-that is, there are now four
times as many patients as there We're
6 or Z years age. On account of the
increased number of patients, the very
high cost of living and the greatly i'm
proved living conditions at the sani-
tarium, the expenses have enormous
ly increased. Beginning with the
present year we will get 100000 per
veal from the County and the Terri
tory will give us $12, 900 for the first
half of the year. The cost per patient
per day is about $2.47. The running
of such an institution involves a large
tax on the Island, and the responsible
ity comes on the managing commit
tee to see that the tax payers get
value received for the large taxes
they pay for its maintenance. We be-
lieve that much can and will be done
in the near future towards putting the
s|anitarium on a better business basis,
Facilities at kuIa
The total acreage of land is 260
acres, 35 of which is cultivated and
the rest is pasture land. We have a
fairly good dairy with 20 cows, half
being registered Holsteins and half
grade-Holsteins; s heifer calves; 6
bull calves, l registered Holstein herd
sire. There are 40 pigs, 270 chickens
(mostly white leghorn), so pigeons,
about 100 guinea pigs and rabbits, 2
mules, 8 horses and 3 donkeys.
The staff consists of 2 doctors, 4
graduate nurses, 2 non graduate
nurses, 4 ward girls, 5 ward boys and
2 laboratory assistants.
There is a foreman for the farm, 2
dairymen, 2 gardeners, 2 yardmen, l
electrician with 2 assistants, l truck
driver and l automobile driver. There
is a chief cook with 2 assistants, l
dining-room boy, and 2 pantry boys.
There are 2 men for the poultry yard,
including care Of the guinea pigs and
rabbits. In the office, a bookaeeper,
and clerk. With the exception of
doctors, nurses, the cook, the dairy
men, ]bookkeeper and l ward girl, the