The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-06-08

| allow the children TO remain there
I and become charge on the board
and permitting some Of them TO be-
I come lepers.
The visitors at the kamaaina houses
| are increasing, and the road up the
pail Is about as convenient for the
lepers to go up and their friends tC
/ come down to the kamaaina houses
| as the Nuuanu pail road is for persons
To go TO Koolau.
l see no way to stop the traffic up
and down the pail SO long as the kule-
| anas are owned by the kamaainas.
At present, it is segregation in
name only and not in fact. In the
settlement it is looked on as farce.
Trusting that the above report will
be satisfactory, l am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
DAVID DAYTON,
Agent on Leprosy.
In answer to q question by President
Smith, Mr.. Dayton said that DR.. Goto
| intended to remain in Honolulu for
| the next three weeks.
In answer to inquiries concerning
| those left in charge of the treatment
| during the DOCTORS absence, Mr..
Dayton stated the treatment was of a
| routine nature. Tue doctor had LETT a
| supply of medicine at the Bishop
| home, and had also furnished persons
receiving treatment outside with some
medicine, otherwise it was all under
the charge of one man appointed for
| that purpose.
The report was accepted and placed
on file.
The suggestion as to moving the
| boys home and making other needed
| improvements was discussed and fin
~
ers to report on cost, site, etc. The
| houses will probably be moved across
| the road and q new cook house erected
mauka.
DIR. Day brought up the question of
examinations of leperS by foreign ply
sicians and DR.. Goto.
DR.. Andrews spoke of the import
ance of such examinations and sug-
gested that record of the name, age
and condition of the patient should be
taken.
The board ordered that book, as
per sample prepared and presented by
the board, be ordered printed, and the
matter be referred to Agent Meyers
TO be carried out. An examination
and record of the entire leper settle
ment is to be made, as soon as posi-
BILE.
A letter was read from Mr.. Meyers,
recommending the purchase of pipe
and suggesting that hereafter any
regulation of the board of health re-
ferring to the government schools be
forwarded to the board of education
for prOmu CATION, to avoid future
ciashing between teachers and ply
sicians.
A letter from Sister Mariana was
read, asking certain Improvements in
the Bishop home.
Agent Dayton said both homes were
greatly crowded.
The president brought up the mat
ter of the site of the North Pacific
Phosphate and Fertilizing Co., and
asked for the report. The report rec
to erect works for the manufacture of
artificial fertilizers and acids at Holo-
loa. Adopted.
The committee of physicians said
they were not ready to report on the
act to mitigate, and asked for more
time. Granted.
An application was read from John
Tremayne, of Australia, for a position
at the leper settlement. Mr.. Tremayne
stated that he wished to do penance
by serving the rest of his life at Mofo-
kai doing good. He had el00 which
he would donate to the lepers and
WOolb pay LIS w" II passage " nAOiO-
kai if they would grant his request.
The secretary was ordered to inform
Mr.. Tremayne that while his donation
would be acceptable to the lepers at
any time, it was not deemed advisable
TO grant his request.
Applications from Drs Emerson
and Peterson were received for posi-
tions as physicians to the government
dispensaries. Ordered placed on file.
The application of DR.. VIM. L.
Moore of Hilo for license to prac-
tice was granted. Referred TO the
Minister of the Interior
A petition was received from Hon.
HOapili praying that his daughter,
NJ. K. Hoapili, sent to the receiving
station as a suspect, be released that
she may be treated by DR. Goto for
one or more months. The matter was
referred to await the examination to
take place at Kalihi next Tuesday.
Mr.. Hoapili to he so notified.
A letter was read from DR.. Allen of
Hama, Maui, stating that Ia grippe
was epidemic in that district. The
secretary stated he had sent medicines
to DIR. Allen as per requisition en-
closed.
A letter from DR.. Victor Capron
stated that about 80 per cent. of the
school children of Kau needed vac
cination.
DR.. Day said the vaccine farm
would soon be ready to furnish lymph
for vaccination purposes.
DR.. l.. 5. Thompson of North Hilo
reported by letter that cases of typhoid
fever had been discovered there and
one case had proved fatal.
1t was ordered that DR.. Andrews
reply for the board, giving DIR. Thomp-
son such instructions as he asked and
empowering him to call in DR.. Will
ans of HilO in case the disease spread.
Tenders for supplies needed by the
board of health were amended and
ordered published.
DR.. Thompson's previous suggestion
as to death certificates went over to
the next meeting.
The question OF planting trees at the
settlement from seeds to be furnished
by the board was favorably COM
mented upon.
At 4:45 the board adjourned