The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-02-01
BOARD OF HEALTH.
Proceedings at Yesterdays Meet
ing of That Body.

The Board of Health met yester-
day, with President Smith in the
chair. Members Warehouse, Lam
sing and Ena, and Agent Reynolds
were present.
The quarterly report of the Ma
lulani Hospital, at Waikiki, was
presented, and was as follows:
WAILUKU, Maui, Dec. 81, 1898.
Hon. WsO. SMITH, President of the
Board of Health, Honolulu, III. /.
have the honor to submit to you
the following report of the Malulani
Hospital, at Waikiki, Maui, for the
quarter ending December 81, 1898:
Number of patients in the hospital,
September 80, 1893, s; since that date,
fl; Hawaiians, %; foreigners, 10;
paying, 10; non paying, :; discharg-
ed, 81; died, 4; in hospital, December
81, 1898, 8; number of calls for medi-
cine, 211.
Receipts Received from patients,
S441.25; from collins and burials, S16;
from President of the Board of Health,
S1,146.52; total, S1,603 ~.
Expenditures-Paid to three Fran
ciscan Sisters, $50; labor account,
1915; washing account, S35 80; provi-
sions and supplies, $69L7l; freight,
$40. 81; collins and burials, S32; medi-
Improvements, $11O.3 80; miscellaneous,
S31.55; sent to the President of the
Board of Health, S79.10; total,
S1,6O3.77.
Respectfully submitted,
SISTER M. BONAvENTURA,'
Matron of Malulani Hospital.
The usual letters from Mr..
Meyers. the Superintendent Of the
Leper Settlement, were read. Moth
ing of special Importance was
touched on.
The following letter from Lee
Chu e. Co., who furnish paiai for
the Leper Settlement was read.
The lepers have complained that
the paiai is old and not fit to eat:
HONOLULU, Jan. 20, 1894.
To His Excellency w. o. SMITH, Pre-
sident of the Board of Health.
SIR: A communication from the
Board of Health of the Sd instance
with reference to the paiai delivered by
US at the Leper Settlement was duly
received.
In regard to the matter L wish to
inform you that the paiai which was
shipped on the 26th of December was
made ready for shipment on Monday
the 25th, as we had not been inform
ed that the steamer would not sail
until the next day until after the paiai
: was made ready, this, of course, made
o delay of one day. OF that shipment
1876 bundles were smashed in being
landed, the sea being rougher than
had been known for years OF these
superintendent, the remainder were
rejected. The steamer could not land
at the usual place and had to go to
Kalawao with the paiai and in some
cases the sailors had 10 swim from
the boat with the paiai and great deal
OF it became wet in consequence.
The shipment of January Cd was also
subjected TO almost the same difficult
es, the steamer leaving one day
ster than We expected and great diff
I atty being experienced at the land
lDg.
In consequence of the rough hand
ling of the paiai and the wholesale re-
jecIiOn of il by the superintendent we
have been Obliged 10 appoint an agent
ut the Settlement to- watch out for our
interests. We wish to assure the
Board that any statement to the
effect that we have shipped paiai two
weeks old is false. We have under
taken to furnish this paiai at great
expense and cannot certainly afford
to incur the displeasure of the people
at the Settlement or the Board by any
such practices as you allege.
We are willing and should be in |
deed pleased to have the paiai inspect |
ed before it leaves Honolulu, either at |
our works before it is packed in bum |
dies or at the wharf.
We propose to fulfill our part of |
this contract up to the very letter.
Hoping that the Board will receive |
no more complaints,
We beg to remain,
Very respectfully yours,
LEECHU & Co.
Several applications were re-
ceived from lepers that they be |
allowed to use DIR. Goto's treat
ment. They were deferred for
further action.
A petition, in native, from forty
six kokuas at the Settlement was
read, giving reasons why they
should be allowed to remain at the
Settlement. 1t was decided to no
tify the petitioners that the Board
would take their request under con-
sideration.
The following letter was received
from the Foreign Office:
DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS,
HONOLULU, Jan. %, 1894.
SIR:-I am directed by His Excel
lency the Minister of Foreign Affairs
to inform you that, by dispatch from
the Hawaiian Consul at Las Palmas,
Canary Islands, dated November 20, |
1893, and received on the 10Th instant, |
Information has been received by this
department that Asiatic cholera NOR