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of health, will prevent all possibility of a similar occur- 

 rence in the future. Scarlet fever has never been epi- 

 demic, and diphtheria has always been observed, and that 

 very seldom in isolated cases. Syphilis is not so com- 

 mon as formerly, but the hereditary effects are wide- 

 spread and severe, and present and future generations 

 will be made painfully aware of the truth of 



"Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers." — 

 Quintus Curtius Rufus. 



Measles has always been the great curse of the primi- 

 tive races, and it has claimed thousands of the Ha- 

 waiian population. The fearful mortality attending 

 this disease is usually attributed to the recklessness of 

 the patients, as they will not keep their bed, but will 

 persist in bathing to find relief from the fever heat. 

 I believe, however, that such imprudence on the part 

 of the whites would not result so disastrously and that 

 the frightful death rate is more attributable to the 

 slight resistance to the disease on the part of the na- 

 tives. There ought to be very little, if any, typhoid 

 fever in Honolulu under the present perfect system 

 of water supply and sewerage. The disease occasionally 

 affects small communities where the sanitary condi- 

 tions are not so completely under the supervision of 

 the government physicians stationed in the 23 different 

 districts. Maui is the island that records the largest 

 number of cases of malaria, 121 cases of dengue and! 

 malaria in six months, as stated in the last health re- 

 port, while Kauai and Molokai report none, and only 

 3 cases are credited to Oahu and 3 cases of typho-ma- 

 laria and one case of typhoid. The islands continue 

 to supply the leper settlement with new inhabitants to 

 take the place of the dead. According to the report re- 

 ferred to above, the number of lepers at the settlement 

 at present is 888. In six months the population of 

 lepers was increased by 62; at this rate the annual ad- 

 dition to the number of lepers would be 124. The re- 

 port also refers to a large number of suspects that re- 



