The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-06-08
REPORT OF INSPECTOR DAVID
DAYTON.
An Eccentric Penitent From
Australia.
Routine Business Examination of
Lepers. Etc.

The board Of health met yesterday
afternoon at 3 P. ", with President
W. o. Smith in the chair.
There were present w. o. Smith,
John Ena, DR.. Andrews, J. T. Water
house, jr., DR.. Day, G. B. Reynolds,
agent, and David Dayton, inspector.
| The minutes of the previous meet
| ing were read and adopted.
President Smith read the following
interesting report from Inspector
Dayton, just returned from the leper
settlement:
To HONORABLE w. o. SMITH, PRES
| IDENT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
| SIR In obedience to instructions,
| DIR. Goto and / sailed for the leper set
| Element, MOIokai, in the steamer Mo-
| kolii on the 18th ult., and arrived
| there on the 18th ult. called on Sis
| ter Mariana, at the Bishop Home,
| then went to Kalawao.
On the 18th nit. was at the hospi-
| tai the most of the day, as l was anx-
ious for the hospital to be in condition
| to receive Dr. Goto's patients.
On the Goth ult. 1 was at the hospi-
| tai during the forenoon to see how the
work was getting along, then went to
| the Boys Home at KalawaO and had
talk with Mr.. Dutton and the Sis
tiers.
They are very anxious to have the
home put in better condition so that
| it will be more convenient for them
to do their work.
Sister Mariana wishes the buildings
moved to the mauka side of the road
so that there will not be so much rum
ming about. I think they can be
moved and put in order for less than
$500. Then it would be necessary to
build o new cook house like the one
at the Bishop Home, and more build
ings would have to be erected for pa
tientS, for the Home is full now, there
being 81 persons there.
The Baldwin buildings are occupied
by thirty or more boys and the build
ings are neat and clean. Hon. HI. z.
Baldwin donated S1037.1S, and he is
willing to donate 1852 50 more to
make the home what it should be.
Buildings for lepers should be about
20x30 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 22nd ult. we tried the boiler
at the hospitals and took the water
for the baths from the blow off pill pc
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 bot
tom of the boiler, so on the 23rd ult.
we changed the pipes and fed in two
blow-off pipes at the bottom of the boil
er and tapped the boiler little above
the lower try-cock and we had boiling
water in 90 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 saw
ing of coal for there is suffic ent hot
water above the pipes that leads 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 one-half of a bag of
coal per d " for the boiler to heat the
water for the baths there.
On the 9th uit.- DIR. GotO examined
137 persons for treatment at the hos
pital and he selected % 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 25th ult. I went to the
Bishop home and consulted with Sis
ter Mariana and others in regard TO
heater for the baths there, TO assist
the heater from the range; and also
for an extension to the bathhouse, so
the patients would have more room to
cool off in after having their bath.
/ think a new bath house should be
built there, but owing to the expense
l thought the old one would do if it
was extended, say 20 feet. so 1 sent
the requisition to the board for the
pipe for the heater and lumber for the
extension of the bath house.
am informed that the water supply
at the home is insufficient, and that
sometimes they have no water for
baths, hence the necessity for heat
er, for if the bath tub was filed in the
night the water could be hot from the
heater.
On the 9th ult about twenty of the
patients took their first bath at the
hospital and everything worked salts
factory.
On the 29th uIt visited the Bishop
home, then l visited most of the ka-
maaina houses along the foot of the
pail, and in the afternoon l attended
the funeral of Alex. Cornio.
On the 30th ult. the thirty patients
selected by DIR. Goto for treatment
were all a! the hosp tai, so the treat
ment was regularly commenced there.
There is sufficient room at the hos
pital for ten or twelve more patients.
On the 3lst ult. L was at the hospi-
tai and everything was working salts
factory, and all the buildings and
sleeping apartments are in a splendid
condition.
On the 1st inst. DR.. Goto and |
went TO the hospital, then to the
Bishop home and other parts of the
settlement.
On the End inst left the settlement
per steamer Mokolii, via way ports,
and DR.. Goto went via the pail and
gained the steamer at Kaunakakai,
and we arrived in Honolulu on the Sd
inst, at 2 AN
The following number of persons are
being treated Ivy DR.. GotO at the set