The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-03-29
NOTES OF THE WEEK.

QUEENS HosPITAL--The following is the Quarterl,
report Of Dr.. Hillebrand, to the Trustees of tn,
Queens Hospital:
GENTLEMEN Since January first, 264 new dis
pensary- patients have applied for relief at the hospi
tai. 964 prescriptions have been made up in the
same space Of time, which number also viii represent
tolerably correctly the aggregate OF consultation:
given in the dispensary. During the same period,
twenty-seven new house-patients have been received,
which number, added to eleven present on the LIST Of
January. gives SO house-patients for this quarter
Out of this number four have died, fourteen have
been dismissed, and ten are remaining this day. The
greatest number of house patients present at one time
was seventeen. The prevalence of bad weather during
the months of February and March, and the bad
state of the country roads resulting therefrom, to-
gether with the extraordinarily good state of the
general health, which ruled at the same time, have
caused a considerable falling off in the applications
for relief in the dispensary. With the first appearance
of good weather, however, the attendance has begun
again to increase.
On the 10th of March, the hospital was moved to
the temporary establishment on the newly acquired
premises at the foot Of Punchbowl. We have reason
to be satisfied with the charge the new building is
more spacious, affords accommodation for twenty
patients, and being less cut up in small apartments
than the old one. admits of freer and safer ventilation.
The climate of the new location is greatly preferable
to that of the old one.
Respectfully submitted
WILLIAM HILLEBRAND, NJ. d.
Honolulu, March &c, 1860.
The following preamble and resolution was passed
by the Board of Trustees of the Queens Hospital at
their quarterly meeting, March %, 1860:
"wHEREAs, 1t is necessary for the information of the Board
i of th en one sDm' So ~ isi 20 20 snow Who o' haxa n e% ne Is &C. nsv
their SnhScriDtOns that they maV CPrta ubRtbRr they ara
to be realized:
ResOtued, That the Secretary he requested to furnish at the
next meeting a list of the subscribers who have not paid their
subscriptions and the amount due from each"
CHERRIES IN BLooM.-A few mornings since We
visited Capt. Adams garden, at Kalihi, to see some
fruit trees which he has recently imported, and which
we had heard were thriving finely. We found the ven-
cradle patriarch hard at work as usual in his garden,
not merely experimenting, but combating with his
own hands the ever i~ntruding weeds. A row of
yearling cherry trees attracted our attention, two of
which were in full bloom, and covered with white
blossoms. while on one of them the fruit was setting
quite thickly, and the little cherries appeared on it
from the size of a pea to that of a small marble.
Whether they will ripen remains to be seen, but we
see no good reason why they should not, and why
cherries may not be raised here in favorable localities.
We shall watch the success of this experiment, and
hope to report again on them. 1t is a treat to walk
through the spacious grounds and view the various
loaded fruit trees-peach, mango, orange. and other
are the pride of the old gentleman, who
devotes his morning, noon and evening to them,
watching their progress, and warding of the attacks
insects. One mango tree, standing before the
house, is a curiosity, loaded as it is with thousands of
mangoes, which hang in crowded clusters, that
to break the bending boughs. We could not
leave this Eisenhower of our oldest foreign resident,
heartily wishing him many years of health,
though he has already passed his four-score years.