The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-02-25
AN ACT

To PREVENT THE SPREAD OF LEPROSY.
WHEREAS, the disease of Leprosy has spread
TO considerable extent among the people,
and the spread thereof has excited well
grounded alarms and whereas. further,
some doubts have been expressed regard
inr the powers of the Board OF Health in
the premises. notwithstanding the 302d
Section of the Civil Code. And whereas.
in the opinion Of the Assembly. the 3O2d
Section Is properly applicable TO the treat
ment OF persons afflicted with the Leprosy.
Yet for greater certainty and for the more
sure protection Of the people.
Be II ENACTED. by the King and the Legisla-
tive Assembly of the Hawaiian Islands. in
the Legislature of the Kingdom assembled I:
SECTION l.. The Minister of the Interior.
Acting rs President of the Board Of Health,
IS hereby expressly authorized, with the
approval OF the said Board. to reserve ard
set apart any land or portion OF land now
owned by the Government, for a site or sites
of an establishment or establishments to Sc
cure the isolation and seclusion OF such
leprous persons "a in the opinion of the
Board of Health or its agents, may, by being
at large, cause the spread Of Leprosy.
SEC. ,. The Minister of the Interior, as
President of the Board of Health. and acting
with the approval of the said Board, may
acquire for the purpose stated in the preced-
ing section, by purchase or exchange, any
piece or pieces, parcel or parcels of land,
which may seem better adapted to the use Of
LePers, than any land owned by the Cow
eminent.
SEC. 3. The Board of Health or its agents
are authorized and empowered TO cause to be
isolated and confined, in some place or
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patients who shall be deemed capable OF
spreading the disease of leprosy. and it shall
be the duty of every Police or District JUS
tice, when properly applied to for that
purpose by the Board of Health, or its
authorized agents, to cause to be arrested
and delivered to the Board of Health or It's
agents, any person alleged to be a leper,
within the jurisdiction of such Police or
District Justice, and it shall be the duty OF
the Marshal of the Hawaiian Islands aud his
Deputies, and of the Police officers, to assist
III securing the conveyance of any person 50
arrested, TO such place, as the Board OF
Health or It's agents may direct, in order
that such person may be subjected to medical
inspection, and thereafter TO assist in Temov-
ING such person to a place Of treatment. or
isolation, if so required by the agents of the
Board Of Health.
SEC. i. The Board Of Health is author
lied 10 make such arrangements for the
establishment of Il Hospital, or the securing
of a ward in some Hospital, where leprous
patients in the i~ncipient stages may De treated
IN order to attempt a cure, and the SAID
Board and its agents shall have full power
to discharge all such patients as it shall deem
cured, and TO send 10 a place of isolation
contemplated in Sections One and Two of
,hIS Ar- oil cy,b ~ arfarr- .aS chol 10 .,,e;j
cred incurable or capable Of spreading the
disease of Leprosy.
Sec. ). The Board of Health or its
may require from patients, such rea-
sonable amount Of labor as may be approved
Of by the attending Physicians, and may
further make and publish such rules and
regulations as by the said Board NAV be
considered adapted to ameIiorate the condi-
ton of Lepers, which said rules and regula-
tons shall be published and enforced as IN
the 2S4th and 2S5th Sections of the Civil
Code provided.
SEC. IS. The property of all persons COM
nitted TO the care Of the Board Of Health
for the reasons above stated shall be Liable
for the expenses attending their confinement.
md the Attorney General shall institute
for the recovery OF the same when re-
TO do so by the President OF the
Board Of Health,
SEC. !. The Board of Health, while
an accurate and detailed account of
Ill sums of money expended by them out of
appropriations which naSF be made by
he Legislature, shall keep the amount Of
.ums expended for the Leprosy, distinct from
he general account. And the said Board
hall report to the Legislature at each of its
ocular sessions, the said expenditures in
letaiI, together with such information regard
ne the disease Of Leprosy, as we'll as the
health generally, as it may deem to
e of interest 10 the public.
Approved this Sd day OF January. 1863.