The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-05-11
OF HEALTH.
REPORTS OF DIR. GOTO ON THE
JAPANESE TREATMENT.
.c,,ou Regarding Vaccine Farm.
The Opium Observation-Disclosures
Received and Orders Given.

The board of health convened yes
terday afternoon at 3:05 o'clock.
There were present w. o. Smith,
president of the board, members John
Ena, DIR. Day, ]. o. Carter, DIR. An
drews, ]. T. Waterhouse, Jr., lid
agents Meyers, Dayton and 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 aud regulations COW
cred the point raised.
The question of examination and
granting of certificates to school chill
dren was thoroughly discussed.
Mr.. Meyers mentioned the hardship
which suspected children labored I'M
der, and pointed out the Inconsistency
of declaring such children from school
and allowing them to Iningle with the
others after school.
Action was deferred until such time
as the results of the circular letter is
sued to doctors should be known.
The president read the following re-
port from DIR. Goto, which was re-
ceived and placed on file:
To the President and the Honorable
Board of Health.
GENTLEMEN / 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 have
attended to and left prescriptions with
said Sister which were TO be attended
to during my absence.
In consequence of my observations,
and having learned what should be
required, / ask your honorable body,
for the benefit of those people who are
under your charge. for the building
of proper dispensary, to be used for
private diagnosis and operations, and
also for prescriptions and the furnish
ling of surgical instruments.
Allow me to recommend to your
honorable body the hopeful treatment
L have made q study of-Over fifty
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. DuttoD,
success will follow.
Should you think proper to allow
me the privilege OF treating the pa,
tients at the S.shop Home, would
require to NJ. Ae arrangements with
the board of health for 3 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 Ilay
be placed therein for the perusal of
yourselves and other authorities, to
wit: Number, pame, age, sex, nation
ality, ard con6itions-such as severe,
mild, slight and suspicious, and such
SYMPTOMS as nervous tubercleS and
mixed.
Your obedient servant,
MAsANAo GoTo, Md
Honolulu, May s, 1853.
Members commented favorably on
DIR. Goto's proposition for gathering
statistics.
The following report of Agent David
Dayton was read, to be considered in
connection with tf,et Of DIR. Goto:
HONOLULU, III. l., May 10, 1893.
To His Excellency w. o. SMITH,
president of the board of Health.
Sir: In obedience to instructions,
DR.. Goto and sailed from Honolulu
for the leper settlement per steamer
Mokolii on the 18th ult.
DIR. Goto remained on board of the
steamer and went to the settlement
in her, and left her at kaunakakai
and went up to Mr.. Meyers, where
SrI Saf
I'D ult.
On the odd / went to the leper set
tlements and on Monday, the oath
ult., had the partition taken down
in bath house at the Bishop home and
the bath tub brought from the land
ing 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, DIR. Goto commenced treat
ing twenty-five persons at the Bishop
home.
Sometimes there is sufficient hot
water for the bath; other times, when
there is no force of water in the pipes,
there is not q supply of hot water for
the bath. 1t will require coil to as
sist the heater from the range in order
10 do the work well at the Bishop
home: more particularly for the after
noon bath, so as 10 use the same
water that was used IN the morning.
on the 18th ult. the carpenter COM
meneed to frame the bath house at the
hospital at Kalawao. When L went
there in the morning, Mr.. Reed, the
carpenter, was undecided in his mind
what was intended by building
aOx3O feet, and he asked me, and we
looked at the plan he had and finally
we concluded il meant the building
to be 2Ox30 and a veranda added, as L
had recommended in my report OF the
5th ult.
On Tuesday, the 18th ult., went to
Kalaupapa and had the stones for the
Damien monument moved near TO
the foundation; then i had the cases
opened.
On Wednesday, the 18th ult.,
commenced TO put the monument up,
and on the 9th We finished the work
on the monument and it was ready TO
be unveiled.
On the 18th uIt. / went to see how
Mr.. Reed was getting along with the
bath house; then j went to Waikalo
and returned and went to KalaUpapa.
SATURDAY., the 18th ult., / was NOV