The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1922-10-10

~ eAAAANANAlN 'NtlNlot Jul IOl W IN
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 s%uffocating
such localities should also by all
means have sleeping porches.
1t is important also to have cur
teeth in order, and if our children
have diseased tonsils and adenosld
these should be removed by operation
and we should protect ourselves
against the common epidemic, dis
eases, such as measles, scarlet fever.
and w%hooping cough, for not infre-
quently a child RECEIVERS from these
diseases only to fall a victim 10 tub
erculosis.
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 Clup can
be, and is, of particular value.
The Kula sanitariIn
The history of the s%anitariuln has
been a gradual evolution from the
tentage to the present large collection
of buildings and cottages. While theIe g
is still-and l hope always will be
much to be desired and improved up
on, yet | feel we have in il a very
c%reditable 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 III 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. lie has
been in the continual state of always
wanting something more, because at
ways something more is badly need
ed. | will say here, however, thar the
supervisors have always been in
sympathy with the institution, and
have helped financially and otherwise
as much as any n could expect. AL
so, the territorial board of health
have been of much assistance. The
sanitarium is far removed from my
center, making it difficult at times to
get supplies. DR.. Durney has had all
our ~nationalities to deal with and each
must be dealt with differently, cspeci-
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 eX-
patients and these eX-patients often
must not do hard work least they re-
lapse, and sometimes they resent do
ing any work at all.
At the end of the fiscal year 1912
(about 10h years ago. there were only
10 patients in the institution: during
the following year there were Sc
cases treated. During the year 1913
1871 the average number treated per
month was "a; whereas during the
past b months the average per month
is l35-that is, there are now four
times as many patients as there were
b or Z years ago. On account of the
increased lumber of patients, the very
nigh cost of living and the greatly i'm
proved living conditions at the SAM
tarlum, the expenses have enormous
ly increased. Beginning with the
present year We will get 100000 per
year from the County and the Terri
tory will give us $4,000 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
lty 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
lleYe that much can and will be done
in then near future towards putting the
sanitarium on a better business basis.
We now have a big and pretty well
equipped plant, with one of the best
X-ray outfits in the Islands, and eX-
cellent laboratory and operating faci-
lilies. The running of this large in
stltutlon is no easy task and any
helpful criticisms from the public will
| am sure, be most welcome to DR..
Durney and the managing committee.
Keeping Patients Occupied
There are many things | cannot
touch upon in this paper, but | wish
to mention n rather difficult prob
lem we have to solve. 1t is the mat
ter OF suitable and interesting and at
the same time, profitable occupations
Tor the patients who are able to
do something. The more intelligent
and energetic ones, especially, have
an intolerable longing to do something
with brain and hand. Recently Miss
Anna Silva, a patient whom man. of
you know, has become greatly inter-
ested in this problem. She is doing
bead work and making really beauti-
full little baskets, and interesting eth
ers in the work. She may also possi-
bly, take up leather work. But il is
somewhat questionable whether fnan-
cially it will be a success: the only
way to determine this is to try il out.
which she is doing. The incentive is
largely taken away if there is moi a
ready and remunerative sale for the
product made. | have here a bearti-
full specimen of leather WORK which
was made for me by a friend who
learned the trade while a patient in a
California sanitorium. He was rluch
interested in this work and enioyed
ii, and although the occupation was
OF tremendous value to him in that if
helped to keep his mind from brood
ing and becoming desperate, yet he
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