The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-08-19
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THE LEGISLATURE.
sEvENTY-NINTH DAY. - CONTINUED.
WEDNESDAY. Aug. 18th.


deal of force in the remarks OF the
hon. Noble, but he thought it was
better not to economic in the direc-
ton of the health of the people. If
he should want to economic he
should do so in matters of the army
and navy, and subsidies to steam-
ship lines. He did not sign the re-
port to substitute the Oceanic Steam
ship Co. not because he did not believe
in Substituting them, but because he
thought they should get along with
Substituting one less steamship,
which would save enough to enable
them to build hospitals. 1t might
be good thing to have hospitals
everywhere, but because they could
not efford to put one up at every
place, he did not see why they
should not erect one where it was
most needed. Bad roads on Hawaii
were no criterion for Kauai. A hos
pital at Lihue would be some good
for a resident of Hanalei. There
was good road all the way. If
they could afford one or two hos
pitfalls this year, of course they would
be put them where they would do the
most good. 1t hardly needed argu-
ment for the necessity of hospitals
in some places.
Noble Wilder said if hospitals
were success he should have no
objection to them, but hospitals
were not success. Every Hawaiian
member knew that Hawaiians would
not go to hospital. He had a
sailor who broke his leg and he took
him to the hospital, and his friends
came and took him right away. The
hospital at Wailuku was good
institution, an honor and credit to
this country; but the natives did
not avail themselves of it to any
extent. He had been there when
there was not patient in it. He
took all his people there when they
were sick, but they were not will
ing to go. Look at the reports of
deaths of natives in this city-one-
half are unattended or die of I'M
known diseases. Ii they could make
natives avail themselves of hospi-
tails, and could afford 1t, the best
th,ng they could do was to build
hospitals. At present, however, ii
would be easier to take people to
Honolulu than from one of the other
islands to another. If it cost now
$4,000 for two hospitals, how
much would it cost for about ten
more? 1t would be matter of inter-
est to know how many natives have
been treated in Wailulu hospital,
but they had not anything on that
point. He knew from his own expe-
rience, however, that natives would
not go to hospital. He simply
begged to repeat that the expenses
of the Board of Health were con-
stantly growing and would before
long swallow one-half of the revenue
of this country.
Minister Gibson, whilst fully
agreeing with some statements OF
the hon. Noble, entirely disagreed
with others. The hon. Noble
arguments against hospitals would
apply to some extent to schools.
Schools in this country were in some
degree success, but not so large q
success as the Government would
like. They had to have truant Off.
GERS to look after the children,
otherwise the schools would be
much poorer than they were. II
the schools were a complete success,
as much as their hearts could desire,
they would not have need of a truant
officer and their schools would be
filled with eager learners all the
time. But the schools were more OF
a success than the hospitals, for the
hospitals were not a success. Ii
was true the Hawaiian had fear OF
hospitals: he was afraid the doc.
tors would cut up his body after he
was dead; but great pains had beer
taken at Wailuku to dispel that fear
and with good success. Notwith'
standing the small success of hospl.
tails in proportion to their wish ant
expectation, it was important tina
means might be provided available
for Hawaiians to have themselves
taken care of when suffering
in body or health. The hon. Noble
had stated truly that the Wailukl
hospital had no one in it, but that was
only for day or two. When thu
speaker visitedit there were there
and the number ranged from 1:
to Is. Clerks, laborers on plan
tat,ons ETC., were gradually
coming to avail themselves of it
Appreciation of those institutions
would increase by degrees unit
there would be less people die un
attended--how sad that was-and o
unknown diseases. 1t was true they
had voted heavy sums for physi
cians-he thought very large pro
portion of their means, larger thar
the President of the Board of Healtl
recommended. The hon. Noble
argument about the cost of two
hospitals was hardly correct, for il
one of them was over a hundred
lepers. They were not now discuss
ing hospitals like that one. II,
thought the Hawaiian Kingdom was