The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-08-17
LETTERS OF DIS. TROUS-
SEAU AND MOURITz.
KoutiGe Business Transacted aud Mat
tiers OF Interest Attended to.

president, Dr. Andrews, JOhn Ena
and Theo. f. Lansing.
The minutes Of the previous meet
ing were read.
On motion OF Mr.. Theo. F. Ian
sing the minutes were approved and
the action OF the last meeting Of the
board was ratified. I
President w. o. Smith stated that
Executive officer Reynolds was alb,
seat erecting wind mill ordered by
the board at the Kalihi receiving sta
ton.
President Smith also stated that
DIR. Bond of Kohala, Ha waii. had
arrived In town and had procured q
substitute in the person of DIR.
Moore, who had gone up by the XII
nan.
On motion it was ordered that Dr.
Moore be appointed government
physician in place OF DR.. Bond dur
ing his absence and that he be made
agent of the board OF health for KO-
hala district. Carried.
President Smith asked IL there was
any report from the vaccine farm.
Dr. Andrews replied that DR.. Mon
sarrat stated that NEGOTIATIONS had
been made, aud that he thought one
of them had taken. He was not sure.
however, and several days would be
required to tel.
President Smith stated he had re
ceived through DIR. Trousseau copies
of the United States quarantine reg
ulations and laws One Of these he
had been able to procure through
Mr. Severance, United States consul
general He also presented consular
visa of bill of health. The following
is the letter and recommendation of
DIR. Trousseau:
BOARD OF HEALTH.
OFFICE OF THE PORT PHYSICIAN, J
HONOLULU, IL. l.,
August 10, 1898. J
Hon. w. o. SMITH, president of the
board of health.
Dear Sir: L have procured from Mr..
Severance the enclosed documents.
Nos and you can keep at the board
of health. The two other documents,
after perusing, please return to Inc or
to Mr.. Severance, as the consulate has
no other copy. i am responsible to
the consulate for them.
am willing to have one hundred
copies or more OF No. printed at my
own expense, If you authorize me to
do so. 1 would copy on said No. / the |
through bill of health and file said
copy, certified by me, with you. With |
No. 2 we have nothing to do. L only |
send il to- you for information.
am also willing TO have extracts |
of both pamphlets typewriter at my |
own expense, one for me, one for Rey- |
uoIds and one for McVeigh, as the |
originals have to be returned. Sever |
ance says that the treasury depart |
ment used to send them to the govern
ment here, but / cannot find any trace |
of them.
Please let me know about these be- |
fore Tuesday. If you like to wait !
until after next meeting, return No. |
!, so that l can copy on it the through |
bill of health of the City of Picking, |
and file it with the board of health.
Yours very truly,
Or. TROUSsEAU.
These regulations should be adopted |
here, with such notifications as the |
circumstances specially require.-G.T. |
In consonance with the recommen-
dation of Dr. Trousseau's letter, the
board of health ordered the printing
of 100 copies of the bill of health
provided under the United States
law, so that copies could be filed with
the Hawaiian board of health by DR..
Trousseau.
Il was further ordered that the
secretary apply for copies of the
documents mentioned by DR.. Trous
seau, and that the department at
Washington be requested to send
any new publications on the subject
that might be issued by the United
States government.
The secretary was ordered to &C
knowledge the receipt of DR.. Trous-
seau's letter and to inform him that
there vas no objection TO the making
of any typewritten copies which he
wished 10 make.
The usual report was received
and filed from Inspector Jones.
President Smith read the following
letters from Mr.. Meyer, agent of the
board of health at the leper settle
ment:
KALAE, Molokai, /
August 10, 1898. J
His Exeellency WILLIAM o. SMITH,
President Board of Health:
DEAR SIR beg to acknowledge
the receipt of your communication of
the 9TH inst.
With regard to the reservoir, L have
not been able to do anything further
in the matter than TO select spot
where it should be built, if expected
TO be OF any use. There was nobody
at the settlement who understands
how TO do such work, and as 1 cannot
personally attend TO it, L am very
doubtful that that work would be prop
erly carried out. Another and very I'M
portant reason is that there is so very
much water drawn or used by the {
people that the reservoir would never ,
get full. Kalawao alone uses up the
water, and could only get the water
to run by shutting off Kalaupapa and
having people stop drawing water at
kalawaO. a inch pipe can only