MEDICAL AFFAIRS IN THE HAWAIIAN 

 ISLANDS. 



The recent annexation of the Hawaiian Islands as a 

 territory of the United States has awakened among us 

 a new interest in their agricultural, commercial, pro- 

 fessional and educational status. The wisdom of the con- 

 summation of such an act can not be questioned, as the 

 United States has thereby gained a firm foothold in the 

 Pacific Ocean at a point of great strategic importance 

 and the islands have secured for themselves a permanent 

 form of government and the most advantageous com- 

 mercial relations with the outside world. The inhabi- 

 tants will be made to feel that 



"In no other state except that in which the 

 power of the people is supreme has liberty any 

 abode, than which nothing assuredly can be more 

 delightful." — Cicero. 



The islands have natural resources that must be made 

 available to the natives. The rapid transitions from 

 barbarism to a kingdom and from a kingdom to a re- 

 public and from a republic to a territory of the great re- 

 public have left the agricultural and commercial inter- 

 ests of the islands in an unsettled state, which, however, 

 under the new administration will soon be remedied.. 

 Since the foreigners have taken the reins of government 

 in their hands prosperity and depression have followed 

 each other at variable intervals of time, and the gains 

 have found their way largely into the pockets of a fa- 

 vored few. It is to be hoped that under the new rule 

 booms and depressions will give way to a steady and 

 more healthful growth of the undeveloped resources in 

 which the natives will reap their legitimate share. 



