Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1882-06-24
HEALTH MATTEPs THEN AND NOW


"Tho Health Department needs an indopcnd |
ont boad II should be aopnrntcd |
from tho Interior Administration havo a paid |
President and indopendon, headquarters where
tcrc could bc organized more thorough, |
impartial and efficient sanitary work than nj
present can bo carried ont. '--P g. h, Ftb.
~, lss2.
"Tho experience Of recent yonrs
ought 10 havc convinced oven Minister OF
tho Interior that what ia really wanted 10 en-
suro the sucoossful working OF the Department
of Public Health, is that ita head should be- an
independent public officer, dcvotiug hs time
largely OF wholly 10 tho duties of his oilicc.'
p. e. H., May II, 1882
During tho lapt administration aud especially
| through tho period Of tho snal-po, epidemic.
| tho venerable editor of the r. C.. 4. was pro-
| luse in paradng the foregoing views before
tho public. In fact, no opportunity wns al
lowed TO pnsr by without somo eunitnry meas
Iro suggestion nst what Bonrla II Health
should de-, who they should bo compupcd al.
| nd by what sort oI perr"nngo thoy should
be governed From the frequency with which
! llcro views were given to the public IN buil'
is foreign and native papers, and, If our mct' =
ry serves us alright, in some Of his political
,Idrcss y, It is perfectly natural that lila views
~ Board Of Health matters were well known
II wunld ais" seem quito natural tlut nllcl
,uch Vows kept well before our people, that
some of theso would be wise suggosliuut
would bo acted upon nltor his appointment t,
ne head of that department he hnd been so.
Iici,ous upon so long, aud that the position o
Premier shunld be resigned on account of it,
mutifarious duties interfering viii, his oppnr
'unities of working out sanitary measures iu
tho "dear people" Instead Of this, how
ever, wo fnd the Prima,o President Of ll
Board Of Health and editor OF the p C. 4
taking new stand, bu. ono quite in keopnI
with recent events.
One Of tho leaders in the weekly =. C. 4
OF last Saturday astonisiled it's readers wit
tho assertion that "some Of the most imporur
work the Government has to deal with
placed under the management Of Boards," lin
migration, Education and Health; and "whil
it WAS quito probable educational affairs hu
gained somewhat under the management {
mn independent body, with regard to the ohe
two Boards wo do not think any dcmonstrnbl
benefit derived from their existence can
shown that could not have been had in moi
simple AID effective way'by leaving things
tho Government to manage" 81
some countries there are numerous Boards
Health, over whom, however, some Minister
always supi eme." y "For the presen
nne Board Of Health 10 enough for Hawaii, an
thu, Board should be the Government itself
We would like to ask what has changed
materially the views as shown in the abo,
quotations. The question is here dealt Wi
. by person from totally opposite standpoint
and he not only maintains the position he Ia;
been decrying, but he advocates further routil
, red -tapeism, and then on Tuesday aoknow
. edges to the Assembly that "thc detail duti
9 of his Office as Minister Of Foreign Affairs pr
n vented him from using as much time
a would wish in observing what was detrimcnt
to the health of the public" Oh (! jewc!
:, | consistency, where art thou?