The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-05-16
REPORTS oS DIS. G0TO ON TIE
JAPANESE TREATMENT.
Action Regarding Vaccine Farm.
The Opium ouestion-Le,ters
Received and Order, Given.

The board OF health convened yes
terisy afternoon at sos o'clock.
There were present W. o. Smith
president Of the board, members John
Ena, DR.. Day, ]. o. Carter, DR.. An.
drews, ]. T. Waterhouse, Jr., and
agents Meyers, Dayton anu Reynolds,
The minutes of the previous meet
ing were read and approved.
DR.. Day called attention TO the fact
that the circular letter was seemingly
limited to the examination of school
children by government physicians.
President Smith thought instruction
| > in the rules and regulations COW
cred the point raised.
The question of examination and
granting of certificates 10 school chill
dren was thoroughly discussed.
Mr.. Meyers mentioned the hardship
! which suspected children labored I'M
der, and pointed out the inconsistency
of debarring such children from school
and allowing them 70 mingle with the
Others after school.
Action was deferred until sueh time
as the results of the circular letter is
sued TO doctors should be known.
The president read the following re-
port from DR.. GotO, which was re-
ceived and placed on file:
To the President and the Honorable
Board of Health.
GENTLEMEN I have the honor to
submit to your honorable board my
report, TO wit:
Left Honolulu on the 18th of April,
on the steamer Mokolii, for the leper
settlement at Molokai. On arriving
there found twenty-nine patients in
the Bishop Home ready for my treat
ment, who were entrusted TO me by
Sister Mariana, all of whom 1 have
attended 10 and left prescriptions with
said Sister which were to be attended
10 during my absence.
In consequence of my observations,
and having learned what should be
required, 1 ask your honorable body,
for the benefit Of those people who are
under your charge. for the building
of a proper dispensary, TO be used for
private diagnosis and operations, and
also for prescriptions and the furnish
ing of surgical instruments.
Allow me to recommend TO your
honorable body the hopeful treatment
I have made study of-over fifty
cSses-at the boys home, of whom I
am convinced that, in case they are
treated according to my advice, to- |
gether with the kind treatment of the |
Catholic Sisters and Mr.. Jas. Dutton, |
success will follow.
Should you think proper to allow
me the privilege of treating the pa
tients at the Bishop Home, 1 would |
require to make arrangements with 4
the board Of health for a heater and |
other necessaries for bath-house.
would also suggest to your honor
able body the propriety of opening
statistical book, prepared with tabu-
lated forms, so that all particulars may
be placed therein for the perusal of
yourselves and other authorities, to |
wit: Number, name, ages sex, nation
atty, and cOnditiOns-sucha as severe,
mild, slight and suspicious, and such
symptoms as nervous tubercles and
mixed.
Your obedient servant,
MAsANAO GoTo, MD.
Honolulu, May s, 1895.
Members commented favorably on
DR.. GotO's proposition for gathering
statistics.
The following report Of Agent David
Dayton was read, TO be considered in
with that of DR.. GotO:
Honolulu, II. L, May 10, 1898.
To His Excellency W. o. SMITH,
president of the board of Health.
Sir: In obedience TO instructions,
Dr.. GOtO and 1 sailed from Honolulu
lOr the leper settlement per steamer
Mokolii on the 18th ult.
DR.. GotO remained on board of the
steamer and went to the settlement
in her, and left her at kaunakak2i
and went up to Mr.. Meyers, where 1
was rainbOund until Saturday, the
I'd ult.
On the I'D 1 went 70 the leper set
lement, and on Monday, the 9th !
It,, | had the partition taken down | ;
n bath house at the Bishop home and
he bath tub brought from the land
ng and placed in the bath room.
Then altered the watercocks so the
water would run into the bath tub.
The bath tub being ready on the
18th ult., DR.. GOtO commenced treat
ng twenty-five persons at the Bishop |
lome. :
Sometimes there is sufficient hot i
water for the bath; other times, when I
here is no force Of water in the pipes.
here is not supply Of hot water for
he bath. It will require coil to as {
list the heater from the range in order
0 do the work well at the Bishop (
lone; more particularly for the after 7
loon bath, so as 10 use the same
wafer that was used in the morning. | d
On the 18th ult. the carpenter com
nenced TO frame the bath house at the I
IOspital at Kalawao. When l went
here in the morning, Mr. Reed, the f
was undecided in his mind a
THAT was intended by a building I
0x30 feet, and he asked me, and we r
Ooked at the plan he had and finally
re concluded il meant the building q
D be 30x30 and q Yeranda added, as v
ad recommended in my report Of the /
tn ult.
On Tuesday, the 18th ult., went to v
lalaupapa and had the stones for the Q
)amien monument moved near to
be foundation; then l had the cases r