Sanitary instructions for Hawaiians : in the English and Hawaiian languages / by Walter Murray Gibson.

  • Gibson, Walter Murray.
Date:
1881
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Credit: Sanitary instructions for Hawaiians : in the English and Hawaiian languages / by Walter Murray Gibson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    race ! Do not believe that your race, or that any race of men on the earth, are specially or provi- dentially doomed to extinction, independent of uny preventable causes of decline. You Hawai- ian men are of good physique. Foreign observ- ers admire your well built, well kuit forms. You are stronger in body, man for man, than the Chinese or the Japanese. You are more active than the negroes. And you can when you try, labor in your own climate, better than white men, or any other foreigners. And therefore it is plain to every observer, that you llawaiians do not decline in numbers, and pass away, be- cause you are a weakly, diseased race. Not so, by any means, but chiefly because the wombs of your women are made sterile, and they bring forth few children; and those few are not properly cared for. TAKE CARE OF THE CHILDREN ! The children are the hope and the future of your race; and it should be the chief thought and purpose of every Hawaiian parent, who has not only parental affection in his or her heart, but also some love for the Hawaiian name and nation, to care more for their children than money, place, or any other gifts or joys of this world. Yes! Take care of your little ones! Take care of your girls ! Take care of your women ! And by so doing, O, llawaiians, your race will o*