HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 



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jov. to be relieved of the heavy annual expense in car- 

 ing for its leper children, and in co-operating with the 

 general government in scientific research, calculated to 

 lead to the discovery of a cure for a disease. so widely 

 spread, and which has proved itself so obstinate to all 

 kinds of treatment so far suggested and tried, and 



Fig. 4. — Anesthetic leprosy in a native woman. 



against the dissemination of which stern exile has been 

 the only means. The time is ripe for the United States 

 to act. Let the mass of the American medical profes- 

 sion agitate this matter and let the delegates of the 

 territory bring it to the attention of our energetic and 

 humane congress and such prompt action is sure to 

 bring about the desired result. 



