. The paradise of the Pacific: the Hawaiian Islands [electronic resource] . ted atmosphere. He lived amongthem ten years before he contracted the disease,and he died in 1889, mourned by every personwho had known him. Lepers are not great sufferers as a rule, and theymeet their fate with an indifference which ismelancholy. The average life at Kalawao is fouryears. Women are less likely to have it than men,and it is swifter in its results with children thanwith grown people. Sometimes those not afflictedare allowed to accompany friends there. Womenhave married leper husbands, and children havebe
. The paradise of the Pacific: the Hawaiian Islands [electronic resource] . ted atmosphere. He lived amongthem ten years before he contracted the disease,and he died in 1889, mourned by every personwho had known him. Lepers are not great sufferers as a rule, and theymeet their fate with an indifference which ismelancholy. The average life at Kalawao is fouryears. Women are less likely to have it than men,and it is swifter in its results with children thanwith grown people. Sometimes those not afflictedare allowed to accompany friends there. Womenhave married leper husbands, and children havebeen born of such unions that showed no signs ofthe disease. Leprosy is not as contagious as itwas at first supposed, still it is not well understoodeven after all the investigation that has beenmade. But under the present enforcement of thelaw, and the efficient work done by the Board ofHealth, its spread has been pretty thoroughlychecked, and but few afflicted with it are now atlarge. In time it is believed that the last will befound and the terrible scourge stamped GRIM MOLOKAL 203 There are now at Kalawao eleven hundred cases,all but fifty being Hawaiians. Thirty-two of thebalance belong to the Chinese race, and the restare whites, who were mostly dissipated costs the government about a hundred dollarseach annually to care for these charges, everythingbeing done that can be for their comfort and wel-fare. There are Protestant, Roman Catholic, andMormon churches, a Young Mens Christian Asso-ciation Building, schools, reading-rooms and libra-ries, besides dwellings built by government andwealthy inhabitants of the place. With the improved methods and careful studygiven to the disease, the white population of theislands have no fear of it, and the visitor mighttravel the country over without seeing any evi-dence of it, until he found it in his way to go toMolokais lonely north peninsula. Few of thosewho have visited this dark corner of the IslandParadise have co
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