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• In 1940, the highest-ranking recorded "causes of death" in the Territory were heart diseases, cancer, and kidney f a i l u r e . 122/ • In 1942, during the second World War, diphtheria involved 90. The following year, mosquito-borne dengue affected s c o r e s . 123/ • In 1950, the top reported "causes of death" were heart diseases, cancer, and stroke. 124/ • In 1958, acute poliomyelitis struck 77. 125/ Health Measures The following a n t i - d i s e a s e actions p a r a l l e l similar developments on the U.S. mainland, but with some features d i s t i n c t i v e of Hawaii and the native Hawaiian people. e In 189y, after the annexation of Hawaii to the United States as a t e r r i t o r y , the f i r st sewers were laid in Honolulu, then a city of 40,000. 126/ • In 1902, what is now Leahi Hospital opened on the mauka slope of Diamond Head in Kaimuki, Honolulu, as the Home for the Incurables, with four wards- It was a private ins t i t u t i o n created with c o n t r i butions from nine wealthy businessmen of the haole oligarchy and $750 from the Board of Health. 127/ The proportion of tuberculous p a t i e n t s rose from 50 percent i n i t i a l l y , to 100 percent in 1950, when the T e r r i t o r i al Government built a new hospital wing and assumed operating expenses for the hospital, wifree medical care for TB p a t i e n t s . 128/ In 1968, the hospital became a State institution of the University of Hawaii School of Medic:ne. I> 1976, it was transferred to ti Staff Department of Health. 129/ • In 1908, the U.S. Congress generously provided $300,000 for the ambitious U.S. Leprosy Investigation Station on the Kalaupapa peninsula, Molokai. Only 9 of the 700 patients at the settlement agreed t • p a r t i c i p a t e in the S t a t i o n 's i n v e s t i g a t i o n s , and then only for a few days, so the elaborate f a c i l i t y was compelled to shut down after only two years. 130/ In l'J80, the U.S. Ccnqress approve-? the recommendations of a ccniMssion that Kalaupapa be preserved i n d e f i n i t e l y tor the renaming l e p r o s / patients there, and then become an h i s t o r i c a l and c u l t u r a l reserve under the U.S. National Park Service. 131/ Active cases of leprosy ar<> now treated at Leahi Hospital in Honolulu, but some patients are s t i l l championing the right to remain in the non-hospital, rural cottage setting of Hale Mohalu in Pearl City on Oahu. 132/ • In 1911, the f i r s t resident i n t e rn was appointed in Hawaii at the Queen's Hospital, a haole medical graduate from California. 133/ • In 1914, the f i r s t public health nurse was appointed by the Board of Health. 134/ • In 191b, thf f i r s t school of nursing in Hawaii started at the Queen's Hospital. 13 5/
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