The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-06-08

willing to donate $4,000 so more TO
make the home what it should be.
Buildings for lepers should be about
zoX3o feet, then they could be kept in
better condition and the old buildings
should be cut in two, for the smell in
them now is something terrible.
On the ED ult we tried the boiler
at the hospitals and took the water for
the baths from the blow-off pipe at the
bottom of the boiler, and fed in the top
of the boiler, and we found that the |
water boiled on the surface where it was |
only warm at the bottom of the boiler |
so on the 23d ult. we changed the
pipes and fed in two blow-of pipes at
the bottom of the boiler and tapped
the boiler little above the lower try
cock and we had boiling water in
twenty minutes, while the water was
only warm at the bottom of the boiler.
Now it is impossible to draw the water
out of the boiler and burn the tubes in
the boiler, and it is a saving of coal,
for there is sufficient hot water above
the pipes that lead to the baths to heat
the water for the baths at noon without
firing up, and in the afternoon very
little fire will be required ! think that
it will require about onc-half Of bag
of coal per day for the boiler to heat
the water for the baths there.
On the 24th ult., DIR. G. to examined
I137 persons for treatment at the hospi
tai and he selected 40 or 80 persons,
and the next day those that he selected
for treatment were notified to come to
the hospital to remain there.
On the 18TH ult. went to the Bishop
home and consulted with Sister Mari
ana and others in regard to a heater
for the baths there, to assist the heater
from the range; and also for an eX
tension to the bathhouse, 50 the pate hts
would have more room to cool off after
having their bath,
| think a new bathhouse should be
built there, but owing to the expense l
thought the Id one would do if it was
| extended, say 20 feet, so | sent the
requisition to the beard for the pipe
. for the heater and lumber for the ex-
+ tension Of the bathhouse.
/ am infora cd that the water supply
at the home is insufficient and that
sometimes they have no water TT
baths, hence the necessity of heater,
for if the bath tub was filled in the
= night the water could be bot from the
heater.
. On the 27th ult. about twenty of the
: patents took their first bath at the hos
t pital and everything worked satisfac-
tory.
On the 29lh ut. visited the Bishop
t home, then | visited most of the kama
alma houses along the foot of the pail,
and in the afternoon | attended the
funeral Of Alex. Cornio.
, On the Soth ult. the thirty patients
: selected by DR.. Goto fer treatment
/ were all at the hospital, SO the treat,
ment was regularly commenced there.
r There is sufficient room at the hos
pital for ten or twelve more patients.
On the SIst ult was at the hospi-
i tai and everything was working salts
! factory, and all the buildings and sleep
| ing apartments are in splendid con
| dition.
On the Tst inst. Dr. Goto ard went
to the hospital, then to the Bishop
= home and other parts of the settlement.
On the end inst. left the settlement
, per steamer Mckohi, via way ports,
and DIR. Goto went via the pail and
gained the steamer at Kaunakakai and
we arrived in Honolulu on the sd inst,
at A. NJ.
The following nun btr of persons are
being treated by DIR. G"to at the set
tlement, viz:
At the Bish p home .... az
Y " hospital ,........... 80
: Outside patients. I9
D Otal $3.50. .............. 81
D If DIR. Goto's patients are to be ex
e amined by other physicians it should
Il be done now.
Something should be done in regard
S to kokuas marrying lepers. One case
; in point is where a man named
went as kokua t. his wife, and they
S took their son, a small boy, with them,
II and the woman died, and the man and
n his son continued to live in the settle
d ment, though n lepers, and now the
II son is mnrrled to leper S, now he
n has claim to continue to live in the
o Element and draw his wife's ration
The mothers of children born in the