The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-01-03

remove any and all obstacles in the minds Of all
persons who are DESTROYS Of aiding Us IN our
work Of mercy.
We are advised by our committee, that as your
memorial did not set forth the reasons that I'M
PEELED YOU 70 ask Of Us u reScind a resolution
that had been adopted after discussions and de-
liberation. they thought II eXI-ilent 70 solicit
through one Of the members. the reasons upon
which the memorial vas based, and which
caused the resolution II he Board T. be regarded
a. an obstacle in tie way IF your cooperation
IN our efforts = rro~7e for the sick and suffering,
and they were prJmT,y furnished with a detailed
written statement uf the views and principles
that controlled You in preparing the memorial.
which has also been laid before the full Board
Upon the receipt II that statement. our COM
mIttee We're Of opinion that q Misunderstanding
Of the effect Of the resolution adopted by the
Board had miSled the meuorialistS in asking the
resolution TO be rescinded. and that really the
memOrialists and the Board were agreed upon
the principles that should control in the manage
ment Of tie Queens Hospital. and that therefore
1t was not expedieut that another special meet
Inc OF - large u body Is the Trustees should be
convened 10 prepare a tatement of the facts MP
on which the resolution was passed for your in
formation. but requested one of their number to
communicate them informally 10 the lady who
prepared and furnished 10 the Ommitte the
reasons upon which your petition was based,
leaving the formal answer u your memorial 10
be prepared and forwarded TO Won by order of
go DtaA-- a. 'AN - - AN-1ANAA A--AAA-E
1t now becomes our duty therefore 10 respond
TO your memorial and the views and principles
that gave rise to it. Before explaining TO You
the motives that controlled the Board in adopt
ing the resolution that has caused this CORES
pOndence, it Is proper that You should he in
formed that before your memorial was received.
an agreement had been made, from which
the Board could not well recede. To receive the
patients that you desired should be excluded
from the Hospital subject, however, TO the
condition that they should be placed in q sepa-
rate and secluded ward and apartments in a
house separate from the main edifice. where they
could have no communication with other Pc
tlents or persons, except those who visit them
rs messengers of mercy, under the control of the
Hospital Physician alone) and that, therefore,
had the Board felt inclined to grant the prayer
Of your petition. they could not have done so
without violating an absolute undertaking to
provide for that class of patients.
But aside from the obligation We are under TO
aid the Government in its laudable effort 10 stay
the progress and diffusion of disease incident to
the bad character of the patients to which you
refer. as the alinOners of a public charity, we
would justify the policy We have adopted.
Although the substantial and well adapted edifce
erected for Il Hospital. may justly be called a
lasting and conspicuous monument of the liberal
ity Of foreigners, and of their acknowledged
brotherhood with the Hawaiian race, it should
not be forgotten that the King, His subjects and
the Government are large contributors 10 the
funds Of the institution, and that for its future
it will depend mainly upon aid from the
latter, through the action of the Legislature. In
our minds this constitutes a right to Il special
consideration in favor of the Government from the
Queens Hospital, which was instituted for the
benefit of the nation, and not for the cure of any
class OF patients or diseases, when we are called
upon 70 aid in carrying into effect Il measure in
tended 10 stay and finally accomplish the removal
Of the consequences of the deadly evil. that YOU
.Er,Avyl.lya moral +an.ba-S anl l..t.l.+f-a moo
nents have not materially arrested in its course.
If the evil does exist, we have thought it right to
aid in alternating tine suffering and saving the
bodies OF Its victims, that you and Others may Yet
be permitted 10 continue your efforts 70 save their
souls and truly, Il person in health of body, as
as of mind, is in a more favorable condition
10 receive instruction and profit by it, than is one
Is suffering with lOathsOme and destructive
disease. The law that provides for their control
was intended principally to arrest the spread Of,
md, as far "a possible, eradicate a disease which
not only Stays its hundreds of the needless guilty,
from whose poisonous. b~lighting and degrad-
influence even the innocent cannot altogether
,scape, and at the same tire create a distinction
which had not heretofore existed between the
classes of society and the VIGOROUSLY
encouraging To the former and degrading to
he latter, while it places no obstacle in the way
# reformation and, Us you Justly state, does
end TO place upon the openly wicked in
mark, and thereby make them known as
class, but at the same time those who partici-
latcd in its enactment did not forget that even
he ielon was entitled to sympathy and the care
f IL nurse when destitute and sick, and therefore
provided u limited fund for their use. (neces-
Irily limited, because of the small amount of
money at the disposal Of the Legislature) that
hey may not be left 10 depend upon Il good
samaritan who might not pass near them TO save
hem from physical destruction. Were that fund
for their wants, or could it be better or
qually economically administered by others, the
iOard. be assured, would be most happy TO be
lved from the responsibility of its expenditure.
5ut having suitable and separate apartments not
needed for other classes Of patients, and pay
NJ Il Physician and servants who can attend
hem without additional remuneration for the
resent, no other Institution now in existence can
D well perform the duty or extend the benefits to
D large a number - the Queen : Hospital. That
eng the case, although some parts Of the enact
tent now referred to may be disapproved and
equire amendment, while it is the law of the
md. we are not disposed TO limit the benefits
may result from it, and as Trustees of the
Queens Hospital, we do not feel at liberty TO
-ithhold any aid under our control in the relief
f the suffering and in healing of the sick, what
ser may have been the cause oS their misery or
iSease, and in this We are confident that We shall
ave your sympathies and approval.
We sympathize with your feelings that nothing
lculd be done by Us. a. managers of the Queens
~LOspital. that should . : tend 10 lessen the shame
nd i%gnOminy which it l. 50 desirable should be
-tached 10 those who have voluntarily and
9euly chosen the path of vice, and it is our pur-
Jse that all who are entrusted TO our care shall
known as belonging 10 q 'Magdalen Ward"
nj kept separate and secluded, and although we
ink they should be eligible to 4 portion of the
Hospital under the special patronage OF our
,ung and lovely Queen We cannot understand
that giving 10 them 80 comfortable quarters in
respectable an institution, Will be considered
them and those who are not of their character
an encouragement to persons Of that descriP-
where they are 10 be receiTed and cared for
an infamous class, as they have not heretofore
en regarded and treated by the community with
hich they have mingled. If an institution I'M
7 the special patronage of the Queen of the
ingdom and presided over by the Sovereign Of