Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-06-21
Remarks on Repor, ~ me Boord nj Heoifb
Jor Hi~nn,of Period e0dino
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understanding n the Report Of the Board Of
Health
t. Notice the increased size Of the present /
report tIi4 pagcsl, as compared with reppr lor
period ending 1882 lg4 pagesj, which again
was great advance on report Tor period end
ing 1873 uj pages,
,. This increase in sire Is owing to real
increase in the number Of agents employed by
the board Of health. as shown more clearly in
appendix Q, from which we see that the NUM-.
Der of qualified physician, employed by The
board ha, been treblcd during the last two
years.
J. Comparing the list N government physi.
clans with the number Of reports We notice
that several Of thcm have not sent any contn
button to the biennial report VI the board II
/ is to be hoped that at the end OF the period on
which we have Just entered all will send In
/ their reports earlier than some Of them appear
/ TO have done.
| 4. While the report Of the president gives
summary OF all that has been done by the
board or It's agents in their several departments.
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to what has already been done for them.
Attention is also called to the microscopic
Investigations now being carried on at Kaka.
ako by Doctor Aiming. and to the settlement
Of the sisters n, nurses at kakaako and Wal.
luku hospitals.
5. The questions raised by the case 81 the
Madras last year are only touched on in the
report, being fully discussed in the report Of
the minister Of foreign affairs. But | am glad
tina, the Quarantine regulations formerly
often conflicting with each other, have been
carefully revised and ,implhcd and also that
by the completion Of the WHAT and landing
stage, persons undergoing quarantine on the
reef can now land there without wading
through the water for three or four hundred
yards
o. The triple report Of Mr.. Fitch is very
condensed, in fact so condensed that many
minor points Of service escape the record" as
he himself says. We should like to know
what these " minor point" are, II he considers
as major points the disgusting references with
which his report is spiced. MI Fitch strongly
advocates segregation as the proper method oil
dealing with lcpers ; but very consistently
after referring to the incompleteness OF segre.
cation a. at present carried out-he suggest
, uniting the charms Of Kakaako and Moloka
at ga suitable place, not less than five moi
more than ten miles from Honolulu WI,
Goes he "bcleve every eper should be segre
gated" il he docs mot believe leprosy con
tagious or infections, disease ~ flcprosyis no
,ransmissible, how does he account for the fac
that disease at first appearing in only on
!. person has now come to attack hundreds
How did i, ever become the dread scourgc
1 that he says it has become!
7. The report Of Doctor Stallard and Mr.
> Meyer require to he taken together, in order L
Y make some Of the statements contained in then
- Ineligible. Mr.. Meyer who has been super
Is in,endent OF the leper settlement for man
z years, replies fully to the separate charges c
: neglect brought agains; him by Doctor Sta
IL lard, and clearly shows how that gentlema
~ wrote from insufficient knowledge OF has pun
!. posely misled the reader by his words.
s. Comparing the reports Of Mr.. Fitch
N Doctor S,aliard, Mr.. Meyer and Mr.. Va
!" Giesen, the following facts clearly appear
! tI) That the lcper settlement, the branc
n hospital and the dispensary- especially ii
5, two fomer-are badly supplied with the mo
10 necessary surgical Instruments. Who is answe
:, :, able for this neglecr-ii not the physical
a and surgeon who should need these instr,
ID ments daily in his work ,
Ia (2l That the reports made 10 his superior
a. the board of health, by the same gentleman
n ought to be carefully and accurately compile
20 as separate and distinct reports, and not stu
red over as they evidently have been.
80 That If Mr.. Fitch, with his three appoin
ments, finds himself always under - such
press oil work " that he cannot do justice
any one OF the three. he should be relieved
y, par, of his burdens.
H. (4l This might 6e done by placing res
he dent physician on Molokai, To attend to Il
n whole island Also, by placing the hospit
~ now at kakaako under separate physci:
n, doctor Aiming p making proper separate
tie between the sexes and the degrees of diseas
Ne 9. The correspondence OF Mr.. Gibson wi
'h Doctor Hillebrand tpages Xxi, etc.,, expla
h., the objects Of the investigations now beil
It. carried on by Doctor AIMING, while Doct
id A. S report shows how far that gentleman h
IT. been successful
80 10. From the reports Of the resident disiIi
g. physicians, may be comprehended some Of Il
difficulties which bcset their work, especial
A..
rest Of the physicians reports in the next bic
o2 NAL report Of the board.
u. The two medical reports on the schoe
in Honolulu require to be studied togeih,
ey The tables compiled for these reports conta
~, some signihcan, facts, especially in connects
n with the girls school tsee page xsxviii). 30
he OF these reports, and also that Of Doctor Al
nd ing, give excellent reasons for adopting sol
~, means for the medical treatment Of childr
and other persons who are not positive
ra- be good thing for this nation il
" the schools throughout the other islands
mr. well as this were to be examined MEDICAL
a and the results tabuated in the same way
ed has been done for these reports
ms ~. The circular letter to the govemms
~, &c physicians relative to the extent to viii
,u- leprosy is increasing or decreasing contai
some reasons ior the hope that ultimately n
disease may be entirely removed from the
' islands.
g. In Capt. J. IL. Browns report, note t
prominence given to the poi manutacto
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