•-'•'■ ABOUND THE WOULD VIA INDIA. 



ante of salt-water fish, the excellent water supply and 

 natural sewerage advantages furnish comforts and con- 

 ditions, by nature and man, that could not be found 

 anywhere else. 



A GOVERNMENT BACTEKIOLOGIC LABORATORY AND STA- 

 TION FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF LEPROSY. 



The government owes an important duty in furnish- 

 ing protection to its citizens against infectious diseases. 

 To the physician leprosy still remains a strange, mys- 

 terious disease. We know its microbic cause, we have 

 become somewhat familiar with its pathology, wo are 

 powerless in curing it. or even in retarding its ravages 

 and relentless course. A successful treatment must 

 and will be found. There is no other place in the world 

 where more effective work could be done. The lepers 

 are here. They are a docile, gentle people, who will 

 heartily co-operate with a scientific man to find the 

 much-needed remedy. The annexation of the Hawaiian 

 Island places this great field of scientific research within 

 easy reach of the United States. Little Japan has 

 placed a small colony of lepers and sufficient funds at 

 the disposition of the distinguished Professor Kitasato 

 to discover a remedy for millions of people scattered 

 all over the world. Why can not the rich and enter- 

 prising government of the United States embrace this 

 great opportunity to find a remedy for such a loathsome 

 and hopeless disease like lepra. With the acquisition 

 of island possessions in the Pacific and Atlantic the 

 danger of the spread of the disease in our own country 

 is being vastly increased. Let the United States take 

 care of the leper settlement at Molokai, spend $100,000 

 in the erection of a laboratory for the study of leprosy, 

 pay a recognized scientist at its head with a salary of 

 $10,000 a year, and thus place itself in line with other 

 countries, which are now doing what they can on a 

 much smaller scale in bringing leprosy within range as 

 a curable disease. Hawaii would hail such a step with 



