The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-11-02

| by the sheriff, and / hardly thlnE
| there will be an epidemic of the dis
ease.
All reports, including this month,
shall forward by the steamer Hall
! leaving Kau the first OF next week.
! Enclosed l send requisition foi
drugs.
Yours truly,
r. il. WILLIAMS.
President Smith asked the opinion
| Of Dr. Andrews
DIR. Andrews stated that he con
| sidered scarletina was dangerous
disease and should be quarantined.
After considerable discussion il
was decided that Dr. Andrews should
write Williams ordering quar-
entipe and that all mail should be
disinfected out of that district.
Mr. Lansing said it was his opinion
the kinau should be Quarantined
when she arrived.
President Smith said he thought
special session could be held next
Friday before the Kinau left.
The special meeting was ordered
to be held at the office OF W. o. Smith
on Friday morning at 9 o'clock.
Mr. q. =. Reynolds, agent of the
board, reported that there were three
cases of diptheria. MIR. Reynolds
said the cases had been imported and
the first had been attended and re
ported as membranous, or rife, by
DIR. McLeanan. Since then one of
the children had died and the house,
which is on School street, near
Liliha, has been quarantined.
DR.. McLennan claims that he "re-
ported the same to the agent of the
board of health as soon as practical
after the characteristic symptoms of
the case developed, and before" he
was aware members of the board had
visited his patient.
Some discussion followed as to the
law on the point of physicians re-
porting to the board of health on
contagious diseases, and President
Smith read the following section
from the compiled laws:
1t shall be the duty of every physi-
clan having a patient infect d with
the small pox, or any other disease
dangerous to the public health, to
give immediate notice thereof 10 the
board of health, or it's nearest agent,
in writing, aud in like manner TO re
port to- SAID board, or its agent, every
case of death which takes place in his
practice, from any such disease; and
every physician who shall refuse or
neglect to give such notice, or make
such report, shall be fined for each
offense sum not less than ten, nor
more than one hundred dollars.
The secretary was notified to ask
DR.. Atcherley as to the particulars of
the case as known to him before the
death of the child.
Secretary Wick read the follow
ing letter which is self explanatory:
DEPT. OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, !
Honolulu, Oct. 80, 1898.
SIR-I have the honor by direction
of his eXcellency the minister of
foreign affairs, to submit for your eX
cellency's consideration the following
translation of a letter from Senior a.
de SOuZa Canavarro, Portuguese
charge d'affuires and cOnsul-general:
[Translation.]
CONSULATE GENERAL OF !
PORTUGAL IN Hawaii,
Honolulu, Oct. IS, 1898.
"MR. MINISTER - A Portuguese,
Manoel de Silva, now at the Kalihi
station, by reason of his having been
declared leper by the physicians,
desires to depart for Europe.
I'm bis name, L have the honor to
ask that your eXcellency will allow
him to go by the next steamer.
"Accept the assurance, ETC.,
TSigned1 GA. SOUZA CANAVARRO,
Chge. daft. de Portugal.
To the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
etc, ETC."
And I would ask you to inform his
if the request above stated
can be granted without prejudice to
the law and regulations of the board
of health.
have the honor to be your excel
lency's obedient servant,
GEO. G. POTTER,
Secretary.
His Excellency w. o. SMITH,
President, Board of Health.
The board adjourned at AS.