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nised by the Board of Health, but it was not always so, 

 and it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that the 

 laxness at one time permitted, has worked an amount of 

 evil irreparable in this generation." How, it may be 

 wondered, would our own Board of Health plead, if 

 arraigned on a similar indi6tment? 



This leper settlement will ever be remembered as the 

 scene of the devotion and self-sacrifice of a priest of the 

 Roman Catholic Church, Father DAMIEN. This worthy 

 servant of His Master went out to Molakai to minister 

 to the religious wants of the lepers, and himself became 

 a leper. The latest accounts thus describe his condi- 

 tion : — " Father DAMIEN is falling a victim to his charity. 

 Leprosy has done its worst on him, at turns at his ears, 

 his eyes, nose, throat, his hands and lungs. The poor 

 Father has suffered dreadfully. He is completely 

 disfigured, his voice is almost extincV'* 



The Sandwich Islands were also the scene of Dr. 

 ARNING'S celebrated inoculation cases which attracted 

 so much attention, and a full account of which is given in 

 the British Medical Journal of 24th November, 1888. 

 Dr. ARNING, whilst at Honolulu investigating this disease, 

 obtained the consent of the Government to inoculate a 

 healthy person with leprosy, the person to be experi- 

 mented on being one who had been sentenced to death. 

 He was promised a remission of his sentence on condition 

 of his allowing the experiment. The operation was then 

 performed, and for a long time subsequently with negative 

 results. However on the 25th September, 1888, he was 

 examined by N. B. EMERSON, M.D., President of the 



* Since the foregoing has been in type, the death of this heroic man 

 has been announced. — Ed. 



