The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-07-19

in mild form. We want the worst case:
separated. A nurse who looks after sick
people is only paid 50 cents month The
nurses are partial in giving ont clothes
Some of the patients would like TO raise
/ pigs and chickens, but it is strictly forbid
den in the enclosure.
kope said: The Steward takes our rice
and feeds his own chickens with it. he
was detected one week. Only two patients
| took rice that week and be reported ten.
! The OverSeer gets down on = man and he
! does not relent. Patients far advanced
| are neglected and not washed When the
doctor does come round he treats US and
| gives Us medicine The trouble is he is
not often here. The difficulty is not with
! Hutchison, the Assistant Superintendent.
| He gives his orders but the Steward does
not attend to them. We want Kiha, the
| Head Steward, to be removed.
John Kahaulou said: Ou- ration OF
salmon is only three pounds a week. We
ought to have six pounds, Our ration of
| beef is seven pounds, but take out the bone
and it only weighs four pounds. We want
seven pounds clear meat. Our friends
send us things and we have to pay the
We ought to have $40 worth of clothes a
year instead of only So worth.
Kapuni said: 1 do not like the order for
So to get clothes at the store; l prefer the
money. Well people who come here TO
look after their friends are made to work
by the Board. Some of them built a stone
wall
Kailikaea said: The Board ought to have
a new pair of scales. Seven pounds only
weigh five pounds by the present ones.
TESTIMONY OF OFFICERS AT THE SETTLEMENT,
Kiha said: am Steward of the Hospital.
| will now state what is truth and give
every information on the sdbject. He was
then reminded by the committee to confine
himself to matter in the enclosure where
he had charge. / will Try and'do so, but l
feel it is right to reply to some of the un-
founded statements that have been made.
There is no truth whatever in a great deal
that has been said. The rice is good,
though it does sometimes get wet
in landing. / do not keep any stock
of animals to feed with the rice
of the Board; and the reason why some
of these people complain is because l will
not let them have the food of the Board to
feed away to their animals. / will not
let them carry on gambling and that is
why they make their complaints. There
is TO truth in most of these complaints.
The weak and dying people are always
cared for. Father Damien, who is there,
knows that l tell the truth, and that |
have come and walked him up at all hours
nf MIC I n
the morning, and got other help to provide
for dying leper. They are well cared for
and | refer to Father Damien and the
other nurses if all this is not true. l want
an investigation; let matters be looked
into and it will be seen there is no founda-
ton for the talk of these men. Now, in
regard to the pay of so cents a month for
a nurse, that is the pay of those who SIM
ply carry the food, and is the pay for each
patient cared for by him. For other pa
tients who are more helpless and who have
to be assisted, the kokua or nurse is paid
81 each patient per month. One cause of
this opposition talk is on account of my
forbidding unseemly amusements, a bad
kind of hula and gambling. They make
these complaints on account of this
restraint, about things which are not true.
1t is true that lately the beef has been
rather poor, but it was eatable. What l
state is true and can be proven.
This man spoke in a firm tone and with
considerable force, and inspired confidence
in his statements, and there was not word
of denial on the part of the lepers to what
he said. The company present, mum ber
ing nearly $50, was partly made up of kO
kuas, who reside on lots of land held by
owners independent of the Board of
Health. Only about eighty or ninety lepers
were present. There was not more than
one-seventh part of the leper population
present on this occasion. The great bulk
of the leper population was seen at Kalau-
papa afterwards, where no complaint was
made by them.
Ambrose Hutchinson, the Assistant
Superintendent, said: There is a man
here whose business it is to bury lepers.
AS soon as patient dies outside, and is
poor, 1 see that they are properly buried.
The man whom they ask to carry water is
employed by the Board. a deal of the
water they want carried is used in the pri-
vate coffee shops at Kalaupapa landing,
and they have the right to pay for it. The
beef we have had lately from the Molokai
ranch was not good yet it was beef that
the people could eat. We get No , rice;
sometimes it gets wet, and we throw that
away. We get Oregon bread, but the
lepers prefer the California made. The
Oregon looks well, but it has not good
flavor. / can make 81 pounds of paiai last
me week. The scales are exact weight. l
would suggest that the lepers have the
same ration of bread as rice-nine pounds
The choice of money in place of rations
was discontinued twelve months ago. l
think it would be better TO exercise discre-
ton, and let them have a little money.
Some, though, would go and gamble it
away, and even gamble their last stitch of
clothes DR.. Mouritz is a good doctor. You
know what Hawaiians are, and that they
believe in the kahuna practice of curing by
sorcery and superstition. The doctor who
is skillful would feel discouraged when he
found his patients avoiding his advice and
medicine and listening to superstition. He
did not care TO treat them after the ka-
hunaS.
Father Damien said: While KalawaO,
which is the settlement proper of the
Iepers. was we'll supplied with water by
l.