The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-11-07
Objections to Opening Of {
Ditch.
FATHER CONRADY AT MOLOKAI.
Objects to Removal From the Settle
ment-The Ditch Through w. w.
Halls PrOperty-Unhealthy Place.
Chinese Doctor Refused License.

IhlneSS DOCTOR IeiuSed License.
At a meeting of the Board of
Health, held yesterday afternoon,
there were present President Water
house, members Lansing, Keliipio,
Reynolds, Drs. Emerson, Wood,
Day and Minister Cooper.
Superintendent Brown of the
water works requested an appro-
priation of $25OO for expenses of
running the pumping plant. The
last appropriation was exhausted.
The Board decided to take $25OO
from the cholera expenses to be
used for the pumping plant.
a letter was read from Z. H.
Wodehouse asking that fishing at
Kukuluaeo be permitted. DR..
Emerson moved that restrictions
upon waters east of the new retain
ing wall be removed. Carried.
DR.. Wood moved to remove re-
strictions on fishing on the west
side of the entrance to Kalihi.
Carried.
Superintendent Brown of the
water works stated that fresh water
was used by shipping ostensibly
for washing decks, and the Govern
ment was receiving no pay for the
supply. DR.. Day moved that the
water of the harbor be used for
washing the decks of vessels in
port. Carried.
The claim of Wong Chow for
damages at being turned out from
the flats at Leleo or Kaliu was re-
ferred to Health Agent Reynolds.
Damages claimed, $54 60.
The resignation of DIR. Russell
from Waianae was read and ac-
cepted. DIR. Day moved that in
the acceptance of the resignation
be included a vote of thanks of the
Board. Carried.
The application OF Mrs. H. L.
Jenkins for permission to reside on
Molokai was referred to the presi-
dent.
Father Conrardy's letter was
read. In it he asked the reasons
for the Board of Health, in the
action of ordering him off the leper
settlement at MOlOkai. He asked
the Board to consider deeply the
responsibility of removing from the
settlement a contaminated person
such as himself.
DIR. Wood reported that the COM
mittee had examined the Chinese
doctor. and found him totally in
competent. DIR. Wood recon-
mended that no license be granted
him. The recommendation of the
committee on examination was ac-
cepted.
On the subject of opening a ditch
through the grounds fW. w. Hall,
the following communications were
received the first from W. W.
Hall, the second from 2. G. Jones
In reply to your note of the 26th
instant addressed to me, announcing
that the irrigating ditch which ruu~
through my grounds, which was closed
by your order during the cholera cpl
demic, may be reOpened under certain
conditions, / beg leave to lay before
the Board of Health a few facts.
AT any time during the last fifteen
years or more this ditch might justly
have been closed by order of the Board
on the ground of its being a menace TO
the public health.
III support of this state ment, l would
say that the stream was not perpetual:
much of the time, especially at night,
there was scarcely enough water TO
carry a straw along, and at such times
a very unpleasant odOr arose from its
bed, conducive to malaria.
[ think DR. Day will remember that
Mr.. VIM. Foster while occupying one
of my cottages year or two ago, sui
/ fered an attack of malarial fever, and
it is certain that when DR.. Nichols
was considering whether or no he
would take this cottage, Mrs. Foster
told him that she thought the stream
an unhealthy one. When Mr.. L. r.
Newman's family occupied another
cottage in my grounds, on the edge of
this ditch, they suffered frequently
from head aches, which they felt were
caused by the stream, and, once at
] least. had serious sore thrOatS, which