The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1880-06-26

the rules in order that he be allowed to read 8
bill to regulate the sale of liquors a second time
Motion lost.
ORDER OF TIE DAY.
The further consideration of the Approximation
Bill.
The four police items were first considered,
and were passed as follows
DEPARTMENT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL. CONTINUED. J
Police of Hawaii SOS, 900 OG
OF 1900 90
4" of Kauai 1900 90
Mr.. Kalua, in referring to the increase in the
item for police of Oahu, said he would cordially
support it il it was to benefit the native police.
but he considered $50 a month too much for the
foreigners. He was in the habit of passing the
police station and invariably saw a foreign po-
liceman in an arm chair One he knew to be
sickly, Nc. Keague by name, mHo2a he thought
was not competent to arrest an old sick hen if he
were sent to do it. These fellows who have easy
chairs and an easy time of it should not, in his
opinion, be SO well paid as the native police who
do all the work.
The next items that had been reported on were
school appropriations. They passed as follows
BUREAU OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. CONTINUED. }
support of Hawaiian and English schools. -. .$45, 900 90
Support of Common schools. Il, 900 90
Industrial and Reformatory schools and pur-
chase of music and expenses of instruments 10000 90
Mr.. Keau moved that the Industrial school
item pass at So, 900.
Mr.. Bishop explained the advantages of the
school, and its object. He also made praise
worthy remarks on the way in which it is con-
Quoted.
The item passed at &c. $780,, an increase of
$500 on the original item.
The House adjourned at Ais p m.
FoRTY-SEvENTHs DAY-Thursday, July LIST 1880.
PETITIONS.
Sundry petitions from Hsmskua were presented
and referred to the respective committees.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
Special committee to whom was referred the item
in the Appropriation Bill for anchors, buoys, and
landings, made their report. They recommended
that 81, 900 be added to the original item. Report
accepted, and to be considered with Appropriation
Bill.
An Act to regulate the sale of stalls at public fish
markets was read for first time. Referred to Com
mittee on Revision.
ORDER OF THE DAY.
Third reading of an Act to amend Section 1000, of
the Civil Code. Passed.
An Act relating to the reconstruction of the Board
of Health was read for second time.
Mr.. Gibson, the introducer of the bill, moved that
it be engrossed. He said the minority report states
that there is no reason for the re construction of the
Board of Health. He would endeavor to give those
reasons. In most cities or towns doctors form
part of the Board of Health, but at the same time
there are Municipal Governments who control the
Boards. And a Board of Health in those cities, does
not, as in Honolulu, constitute the sole body to dis
charge any municipal sanction. The city of New
York is cited by the Minority Report against the bill
under consideration. as an illustration of a Board of
Health made up largely of doctors, and he admitted
the statement.
He had from time to time been a resident of that
great city, and had relatives there, and in former
times he had taken part in its business and its poll
tics. He had been familiar with its city government,
and he had known a body of men elected to legislate
for all the interests of the city,-for its building, and
st~reet-making, and sanitary improvements, with not
a doctor among them as q city government
having control of every provision made for their
Board of Health. And yet it was not felt that there
was any reflection upon the medical profession, be-
cause not one of their members was chosen to legis-
late upon and control the sanitary disbursements OF
the city, any more than il should be regarded here,
as a reflection ON the medical profession, because a
doctor has not been chosen among the representatives
of the people. 1t is a common practice In the organ
iZation of government, throughout the civilized world
that the business and disbursements of a country are
placed in the hands of g lsymen,'' or non profess
sional men,-suficiently intelligent to employ the
best professional talent for whatever duty required,
whether educational, legal, medical, military or
naval. The military and naval Establishments of the
United States, Great Britain, and other countries,
are usually placed in charge of well informed men,
who however have never been trained to the profess
sion of military or naval warfare. We have
an illustration in point, in the composition OF
our Board of Education. Each member is an ordi-
nary business man; not one is a professional lu-
structor, and yet he felt assured that we Will not
appear Z" ridiculous in the eyes of the world be-
cause the professional educational element IS not
on that Board. 1t may be said, how
ever, that the professional educational man is not
excluded by law and he said that if the Board
had been partly composed of teachers, who for
twenty years had maintained an exclusive system of
instruction, had not carried out any reforms In the
of youth, nor published q single work OF
but had merely adhered to the text
books in which they were taught, there would now
be a cry for a law to exclude the professional
teachers, and place the Board in the hands OF IN
telligent business men. and heads OF families. de-
voted to general education. Contrast the history OF
our two Boards, Education and Health. The former
of laymen entirely, and the latter con-
trolled by professionals. The former has by its en-
action brought the education of the coun-
try to a point that challenges the admiration OF all
observers it has reduced the llliterate TO
an insignificant fraction of the people-about Z In
/ 200; it has by an inspecting vigilance visited not
only every hamlet, but every house in these islands
with educational influences; they have built io5
new schools, at a cost of 6 $685., and plollshed
books which cost $50 ,96l, and have pur-
chased Textbooks at a cost of S34,129. But, Mr..
what are the triumphs and monuments
of our Board OF Health? Shall L point to the null
titude OF burial mounds that dot and dis6gure these
fair Islands? Shall L expose TO view the unwhole-
some condition of the city of Honolulu; the close,
damp yards. foul with slop and garbage, the noxiOus
privies, and other disease breeders OF the capital!
Shall 1 take you to the decaying grass huts, or other
RECONSTRUCTED dwellings of the poor people OF the
Islands, and show the damp and mould, and pad
of disease-breeding lodgings, never VS.
tied by a physician or agent of the Board OF Health!
Shall L cite the report of the agent OF this very
Board, that Z" ffty-eight per cent. OF all deaths OF
reported, are entirely unattended during
sickness by any physician - and that he thinks IL
g fair TO presume that 25 per cent of those dying
mishr have been saved by medical
attendance-as an evidence of the value of pro-
fessional enterprise. fidelity and skill in control OF a
Board of Health? Can we present to the phllan-
t~hropists of the world some monument OF hygiene,
some instruction on health, some book or tract, as q
work of love in behalf of poor, sick. dying Hawai-
ian people. produced during the past twenty years
by a faithful, humane, professional Board of HEALTH
Some instructions mentioned in the minority report,
but these had been anticipated by the publications
of a member of this Assembly. What can We point
to? What can we showi What can We present in
of this Board! Some may say that the lepers
of Molokai have been more abundantly cared for;
and that supplies for their food and comfort, have
been advanced from an expenditure of S57 ,534.33
in 1878 to $87, 58065 in 1880 for about the same
number of patients. But this increase of supplies
was the work or instigation of an opposition, and
orioinatipo Nth the REPRESENTATIVES, of the DeODle-