SMALL-POX AND LEPROSY AT HONOLULU.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 232, 11 July 1872, Page 6

SMALL-POX AND LEPROSY AT HONOLULU.

The Commercial Advertiser of the 25th ' May says :—: — No little excitement was oaused on Thursday afternoon by the announcement that a case ef small-pox had been discovered in town. The person attacked by the disease is a young native female, under twenty years of a^e. She left here on board the schooner Juanita, on the 17th, for Molokai, complaining at the time of a slight fever and headache. In a day or so after the eruption came out, and soon increased, covering the entire cuticle from head to feet. At Kahului, where the Juanita met the Ka Moi, the girl was put on board the latter vessel, and brought to Honolulu. Smallpox raged fearfully in Philadelphia during the past winter, and is always to be found in &au Francisco in a more or less pronounced type. The statement is current that a person who came here a passenger from San Francisco by the Nebraska on the sth instant, aud who died in the American Hospital on the 7th, was sick with the smallpox. " The same paper on the Ist June says : — "The case of this disease which is now on the reef is pronounced by the physicians to be one of the most virulent sort. Another suspicious case has been discovered in town. This was a native man, in the Queen's Hospital, who has none of the symptoms of small-pox except the eruption." The number of lepers sent to the asylum at Molokai from the date of its establishment to March 31, 1871, was 385 ; the deaths up to that date were 199 ; remaining at the settlement, 386. Included in the number of lepers are several half-castes, two or three Chinamen, and one European. Several instances are known in the Sandwich Islands where women have married the second and third husband after the first had died of leprosy, and their later partners, after a short time, shared the fate of the first. The disease is a most contagious one. Whole families, and those who have lived with them, member by member, have become diseased. The lives of half-a-dozen persons may be endangered by the " aloha " of one person, and, if they were not sep irated from the other population, it is stated that " the consequence must ultimately be the ruin of the Hawaiian race, and the foreigner would soon be included in the catastrophe." On May 7th a telegram was received in San Francisco from Mew York to the effect " ihat small-pox is increasing. Thirty-three new cases were reported to-day."

The Benevolent Institute. — The number of inmates at the Institution, Cavei • sham, on the 30th June, was 78, comprising 12 adult males, 26 girls, and 40 boys.' The number of cases of out-door relief during the month of June was 342, comprising 23 adult males, 77 adult females, and 242 children. This was done at a weekly cost of L 23 18s 6d. Our University. — Mr James Smith, in one of his contributions to the Argus, says of our University— " Should the second endowment [of 100,000 acres in favor of the University] be acquiesced in by the Gem tj.l Government, the time will come when the University thus liberally donated will be one of the richest institutions of the kind in the world, while it will be rendered independent of legislative control, which perhaps is not an undesirable thing in » democratiocountry.