Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 202, 27 May 1891 — LA GRIPPE. [ARTICLE]

LA GRIPPE.

This disease has taken earnest hol<i of our eommunity, and a number of deaths have been the effects thus far. During the past week the death rate has been inereasing, j«dging from the doleful sound of ihe church bells as they peeled forth their mournful toil. The sickness is not near assevere here as it is in the United States or in Europe; but poverty and laek of means to employ medical aid operate against the poor, added to the treatment whieh they receive from the Board of Health makes them resigned and indifferent.

The Board of Health should in iustances like the present engage extra medical service. The two men oa the Board, whose philanthropy and christianity have been heralded long and loud, should urge the appointmerit of an extra physician on occasions like this. But so bigoted and worldly minded have christian charity been exercised of late» that there is sibility of inculcating anything good into the Board that would be accepted, unless, as we are inclined to suspect, the worldly prospects of some of the members or their friends are advanced by it.