The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-11-08

President Smith was in the chair.
The following members were in at
tendance: Doctors Day, Wood and
Emerson and Messrs. j. Il. Water
house and Lansing and Executive
Officer G. B. Reynolds.
Doctors Day, Emerson and Wood
reported adversely on the application
of Japanese doctor, named Hirano,
for license to practice medicine.
The doctors were assisted in the ex-
animation by DR.. Kobayashi. The
report concludes: "The examination
was made with all fairness and was
eminently practical in its scope, and
so admitted by the applicant"
A letter was read from a kokua,
now at the leper settlement. He is
anxious to leave the place, and asks
for the boards permission. The mat
ter will be considered when the board
visits Molokai next week.
DIR. MouritZ, Government physician
on Molokai, sent in his monthly re-
port and asked for more vaccine, stat
ing that the opposition to vaccina-
tiOn in his district had greatly de-
creased. Mr.. Smith said that it was
very gratifying to the board to know
that the natives were taking more
kindly to vaccination, and much of
the credit for the change of front was
due to the discretion exercised by the
Government physician. Mr.. Smith
added that the supply of virus was ex-
hausted, put another shipment was
expected next week.
The secretary presented report on
vaccination. 1t states that 1880 chill
dren were vaccinated during the last
three months. This amount covers
the whole group. The money ex-
pended during the time for vaccina-
tion was $720.50.
Agent Greene of the Humane SOci-
ETY. addressed letter to the board,
calling attention to the large number
of NANCY dogs that are at present in
Honolulu. He considered their pres
ence menace to the health
of the community and wanted
the board to give him power
to put the ours out of the way.
The matter was discussed and it was
finally decided to declare war on all
NANCY dogs. Hereafter, whenever
any are caught they will be killed.
DR.. Wood stated that every fall q
large number of cases of malarial fever
were discovered on the Eva planta-
ton. This state of thiogs was caused
either by bad drainage or from water.
In his opinion the latter was the chief
cause, as the water is stored in tanks
and is kept sometimes until it becomes
foul. The same trouble was met with
on Kahuku some time ago but rem
edy was found for it. This matter was
disposed of by deputiZing DR.. Emer-
son and Agent Reynolds to make an
investigation and report TO the next
meeting.
Jennie l.. Hildebrand, NJ. D., ap-
piled for a license to practice medicine
and surgery. Her diploma was ex-
hibited along with some good recon-
mendationS. The license was granted.
A report from the health agent at
Hilo was that the town was free from
scarlatina and German measles.
Dr.D. Hardy, of Brisbane, writes that
meeting of science association will
be held at Brisbane in January, and
requested the Board to send photo
graphs of cases of leprosy with explain
atory notes. The Board decided to
grant the request.
DR.. L. S. Goodhue, of Riverside,
Cal, applied for position. His ap-
plication was placed on file as there
are no vacancies at present.
1t was decided to warn the public
regarding the danger of drinking water
without taking the precaution of boil
ing it. The Board considers that the
Importance of boiling water for drink
ing purposes cannot be overestimated
as there is always more or less typhoid
and malaria during the rainy months,