Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1890 — FRIENDS OF THE LEPERS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FRIENDS OF THE LEPERS.

The Work ot Sinter Rose Gertrude and Dr. Lutz at Kalihi, Hawaii. Sister Rose Gertrude, whose quarrel with the Board of Health of Honolulu, has shaken up the sleepy islands, is an

Englishwoman wh ojwent to Hawaii something like four monthsago, after a careful course of study, to do* ;w li a t one woman !could to ameliorate the misery of theilepers of Molokai. Her worldly name iaAmv Fowler and shejis 27 years of age. Her 'first attempt in theworld was the post oF Secretary to an art critic in London. Shethen went to Paris* and learned typewrit-

ing. A few years after this she joined! the Roman Catholic Church, and when only twenty years of age resolved todevote her life to suffering humanity,, to which end she now began to purßUeher medical studies—first, by learning everything connected with the duties - of sick nurse, for whioh she has been given several certificates. Leprosy was the disease that interested her most and of which there can always befound several cases in the hospitals of ’ Paris. She studied with Pasteur and* 'relieves in his theory of micro-organ-ism. It was a severe disappointment: to Sister Rose Gertrude that, instead* of being sent to Molokai, she was detailed for service at Kalihi, the receiving station. Dr. Lutz, whose Dame has been mentioned in the dispatches regarding Sister Rose Gertrude’s controversy with*

the Board of Health, is an eminent dermatologist, who has studied the disease of 1 leprosy in Brazil for ten years. He has already effected some wonderful im-f provements in patients under his] care at Kalihi, the 1 leper-receiving station, and the Government has re-

ceived numerous petitions to nominate him as President of the Hawaiian Board of Health, to give him thecharge and control of all the lepers or • suspects. Dr. Lutz is also an enthusiastic bacteriologist, and it may be hoped that ere long a prophylaxis and therapeutics of leprosy may be madeknown to the world by him which will: prove more efficacious than the meanshitherto employed by either scientists or soi-disant doctors or leper-curers.

The electrically deposited copperwhich is now being manufactured by am. English company has its particles rubbed into each other by an agate burnisher, the result being a metal with a tensile strength of twenty-five tons per square inch, twenty per cent, of elongation, and of Buch purity that when drawn into wire the electrical conductivity: is four per cent, better than the standard. This copper is so ductile that it can be drawn into wire of which, forty miles will weigh only one pound. It will be used for steam pipes, conducting wires, eto.

SISTER ROSE GERTRUDE.

DR. LUTZ.