The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-09-14
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!, IL INJURED at once and the CLAIMS
Is vbe settled afterwards, while IN |
an l...ii tease the board may acquire the
dates from one claimant and YET
lther claimant may object, carry |
lie case to some higher court ana
Int the board to the expense and In
convenience of beginning the matter
all over again. He found there was
nlentv of house room at the leper
settlement, but was very much diSap
poipted with the progress OF the
work on the new ward for the boys
home.
MIR. Reynolds went mp expecting
to devise plans for removing some or
the buildings at Kalawao; but they
fonnd what had been done so far was
almost next TO nothing. A few cart
loads of lumber intended for the new
wards were on the ground, contract
for the work had been let, out, from
appearances, the man who mas IL mas
either too much other work TO 90 or
is very short handed. Ihere was
still a balance of $4,000 left OF the
sum donated by MIR. Baldwin for TINS
purpose, and he had been very much
disappointed in finding that those
who were to do the work had been SO
very slow in doing it. The winter
months, with bad weather, were near
at hand, which may still further de
Law the work that he had hoped was
to be accomplished this year. -,
| No work had been done on the
nrouosed new reservoir, aud snould
the water mains from Waikolu be
broken by falling rocks or heavy
surf during the winter months, the
leper settlement with its 12UO people
are ant to be without water for day
or Derhaps a longer time. He had
written to Mr.. Meyers and had urged
its construction, but Mr.. Meyers had
raneated his old time objections and
dnnbts as to the utility of the I'M
provement. He thought 1t time Ion
subordinates to obey the orders ol
the board and not to ques ION them
) He had looked carefully l"to Dr
! q, ,to'5 treatment and the hospital
} Had found the premises about th'
? hospital in fine condition. III
D rooms and wards were rs neat as 40.
D boarding school. OF the thirty pa
e t;ents tuere every one showed Yer.
VI marked Improvement. 10 look 4
ann,t, Of them one would need to b
!. told that they were lepers 10 uhuei
II stand why they were there
r The doctor depended gfea. oe'
r. on his office boy. When asked que
n tons regarding the quantities
medicine given each patent or p'
= IN the great bath tub, he ala ~
> seem to know himself, and had
:. ask his dispenser or Office boy,
- Young half white, who answered II
i. him. -, -
imDroying very much under Il
treatment. Some of the little gu
- nlayed and romped about the pr
-. misses as cheerfuliy as any inmates
-. a boarding school. 1t was someth!'
nav to see them looking so cheerf'
20 Even if the treatment does not Gu
them. the result is we'll worth t
,le money spent.
asked rs for an increase IN tn
'ia ration allowance. They wanted
w faw more bundles of paial. |
treatment also seemed to imprc
nd their appetites, and 1t made tn
rar feel able to do more work
70 MIR. Reynolds said the same
ne snIts were obtained when DR. G'
re was treating lepers at the bran
hospital in Hono ulu. When
,is- patients kept to the treatment II
10. looked better aud some eight w
~ discharged as cured. In ]
q months they were all brought D.
nd again looking worse than ever :
ary as clearly pronounced lepers as u
i-b were before treatment.
ner The president, continuing
: a that from appearances the treatm
seemed very simple as shown by
Dor fact that DR.. Goto left his pate
ed in charge of The office boy for tW'
90 three weeks at a time. Mr.. Me
III. apprehended trouble from the
on5 side patients who wanted to
OIL" treated. As 1t looked very slmpi'
lara thought any intelligent person at
@ settlement or elsewhere could I
unthe treatment without physlc
- At the Bishop and boys, homes
J.. Thought appliances aud medic
d ~ conld be provided and the W
% u trestment left for the sisters
i" charge to carry on. In the Oil;
III Con some one remarked that
rAe "f fifths of the restorative quaiiu'
- u tha treatment were due to
Ians naiiant's faith in his doctor. he
wboo found the morals of the settler
: for very fine.