Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-07-25
GUARDS OF OUR HEALTH.
THEY DISCUSS AN OFFER TO KEEP
CHINATOWN CLEAN
Present system OF sanitation Pre-
ferred 10 Sewers-UsuaI Reports
Doctors Under Investigation.

yesterday there we're present: w.
o. Smith, president; Drs. Emer-
son, Day and Wood, Messrs. J.
T. Waterhouse and D. Keliipio,
members; @. b. Reynolds, exc
cutive officer, and Charles Wilcox,
secretary. ..
Dr. Monsarrat's reports of ami
mails slaughtered, ETC., we're read
and filed.
Agent Meyer of the Leper Set
tIement sent in his regular letter,
which took the same course.
A letter from Toxic, Japan,
notified the Board that supply
of DR.. Goto's medicines had been
shipped by the Peking.
DR.. Lindley wrote from Hawaii
denying the. charges made against
him by natives residing in North
and South Kona. The doctor
mildly suggested that the kahu-
mas were at the bottom of the
trouble and thought if the natives
we're to assassinate them and de-
pend more on resident physicians
they would get along better. The
doctor concluded by stating that
kahunas were greater enemies to
the Hawaiian race than leprosy
and demanding an investigation
into the charges made against him.
President Smith stated that DR..
Lindley's territory was the largest
apportioned to any government
physician, though he received
1926 per month, the largest salary
paid to any. He suggested the
salary and territory might be
divided between two physicians.
DR.. Day thought the complaints
arose from the fact that DR.. Lind.
ley's district was too large for one
man to attend to.
After a prolonged discussion in
which the matter of physicians,
charges and Treatment of natives
generally came up, the matter was
laid over to the next meeting.
A discussion arose about the
Government dispensary. 1t seems
that some people go there for free
medicines and treatment who are
well able to pay. Patients
and applicants for medicines were
known to leave their carriages
waiting at the door while they
went inside to obtain the benefits
of government charity. Action
was deferred.
A communication. was received
from a Chinaman, asking for a
three years franchise for remoV-
ing garbage from that part of the
city known as Chinatown. Horses,
carts, stables, ETC., would cost
more than a Thousand dollars, the
document set forth, besides which
men would have to be hired to dc
the work. Arrangement had been
made with merchants and resi-
dents of the locality to have the
work done for them.
1T ID an exclusive franchise ?'
was question asked.
The president suggested that an
additional odorless excavation
should be obtained, as we'll as
enough more carts to remove yard
as we'll as house refuse.
| Mr.. Reynolds spoke of the mag.
nitude of the expense that would
be entailed if the Board should
undertake to remove all the leaf
fallings and tree trimmings in the
larger wooded lawns of the city.
The president in reply said that
the alternative of a sewerage sys-
tenn would cost at least one hun
dred thousand dollars, to which
would have to be added an expen-
sive pumping plant, as, owing lto
the lay of the land, the matter
could not we'll be flushed out il
all parts. Sewers we're fruitful
source of disease in many towns
when not perfectly constructed
and kept, and the president
thought the present system o.
sanitation, improved on the lines
he suggested, would be the mos
efficient and economical for some
time to come. AS to the Chinest
application he would not have il
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