The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-06-05

THIRD NOTICE

cNs1N~' HA'J S>S>
attendance is able to give more
hours to the work and applications
on the part of Hawaiians and the
poor of other nationalities have !
largely increased. During the
eleven months Of its occupation
there have been nearly 1850 appii-
cations for dispensary aid.
The Oahu Prison and Insane
Asylum appear by the report to be
in as good sanitary condition as
possible in view of the defects Of
construction, in the former particu-
larly. In the latter DR.. Tucker is
credited with having accomplished
a great deal of very excellent work
and has removed the ill repute
under which this institution has
rested for many years.
The report urges very strongly,
as has been done in years past, that
the Board of Health be given the
entire control of all matter required
under the Act to Mitigate"
While the statement of a former
President of the Board of Health,
that "the Board are firmly of the
opinion that in the carrying out Of
this law depends the checking of
leprosy is not necessarily adopted
by any statement made in the
present report, yet it is evident
that great stress is laid upon the
matter and that it is regarded of
great Importance to the we'll being
of the community that this law
should be placed under the charge
of the Board. 1t certainly does
appear as though the Board of
Health was the proper authority
to have charge of the matter. No
doubt there are very many in the
community who are firmly con-
WINGED that this law is an iniqui-
tous blot on the statute book, but
there can hardly be a doubt,
from the experience of many other
cities, that such law is an impor-
tant sanitary measure and should
be strictly and rigidly enforced.
The matter of garbage is treated
Of to considerable extent. DIR.
Lyons of Punahou, at the request
of the Board of Health, furnished
an analysis of material dredged
from the harbor and used to make
land below Alakea and Richards
streets. While it appears from his
letter that the matter contains con.
siderable organic matter and that,
under some circumstances, it might
be productive of disease, yet it does
not appear to be as injurious or AZ
directly liable to produce fevers as
the community have perhaps sup.
posed. A liberal and generous
policy with regard to Government
physicians, is urged. 1t is pointed
out that the resolution of the Legis.
lature in 1884 decreeing that all
native born Hawaiians and half.
castles should be furnished with
gratuitous medical service and
medicine, was not o kind act to the
Hawaiian race, for it bred in the
nation a feeling of dependence on
the Government that is incompat.
ible with proper self-respect. The
resolution was repealed by the
Legislature of 1888, but the ten.
dency has been very much in the
past to pauperize the Hawaiian
which can hardly be defended upon
any ground whatsoever. OF course
this repeal permits the physicians
to make charges with those who
are able to pay, but the number o.
those who are unable to make pay
ment for either attendance or medi
cine is still large.
Coming to the matter OF vita
statistics, the report calls attention
as has many times been done IL
the past, to the deplorable condi
ton of the law or the practice
throughout the country in this re
gard.
1t is really not so much the lacl
of law or statutory provisions, to-
our law books contain many direc
tions on the subject. 1t is a re
quirement, for instance, with
penalty for non observance, tina
oil births shall be fully reported t.
! Inc school agent and he in turn re