The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-10-04
MEETINGS CAN Be HELD NOW,
Cabinet and Health Board 10 Dis
cuss Freight Notifications.
scHooLs Allowed 10 BE OPENED
Resolutions Passed by Chamber OF Com
merce Discussed in Special Meeting
of Board of Health-Contract for Fur
nishinG Beef to Leper Settlement.

President Smith occupied the chair
ct yesterdays session of the Health
Board, there being present with him
Drs. Day, Wood, Howard, Emerson
Herbert, Cooper, Ryder, Members
Lansing, Waterhouse, Keliipio, and
large number of representative citi-
zens, President Dole, Ministers Damon
and Hatch being among them.
Tenders for furnishing cattle to the
leper settlement were opened and read
HaleakaIa Ranch and w. H. COrnwell
were the bidders. The contract was
awarded the latter at $17 per head;
the bid of the ranch company being
sixteen cents higher, carrying the
same conditions.
President Smith brought up the
question of opening schools. The
Board of Education and teachers were
very anxious to begin educational
work. Some of the schools were in
the infected districts, notably at Ka-
lihi, just beyond the Kamehameha in
stitution. President Smith believed
the children would be better off at
school than running about and taking
chances of catching the cholera.
In the general discussion that fol-
lowed concerning the matter, it was
brought out that if boiled water was
used in the schools the danger of in
fection by opening the schools would
be considerably lessened. Nuuanu
sfr r1 W
night. The guards could prevent
children bathing in the stream in the
day time much better than at night.
Mr.. Lansing believed that if the
responsibility of keeping the children
away from the stream was placed on
the teachers they would see all neces-
sary precautions taken. He favored
keeping a supply of boiled water in
the schools and compelling the schol-
arS to use it.
President Smith reminded the
Board that the worse places were
along Nuuanu stream and near the
Insane Asylum, where the last case of
cholera had appeared. Careful inquiry
regarding the case led to the belief
that the man must have drank water
out of one of the infected tarO patches
near the asylum. No other theory
could account for the case.
DR.. Day was opposed to allowing
the schools in the infected districts to
open. He favored q line drawn from
Queen street up Maunakea to Bere-
tania, Nuuanu TO Vineyard, an eXten-
sion of Vineyard to Liliha, up Liliha
to Kunawai west of the foothills
around to the road east of the Kane
hameha School, and thence to the sea,
as a prescribed limit in which schools
should not be opened or children
allowed to attend.
Attention was called to the fact that
in one of the public schools the chill
dren were forced to drink out OF taps.
The Board of Education should eXer-
else the greatest care about the schOl-
ars drinking boiled water, also COM
pelling the children to keep their
hands clean.
Professor Scott explained the ar
rangements at the high school for
boiling water. A stove and numerous
large containers were avails bic for the
purpose. While he favored the gem
eraI plan of using boiled water in the
schools, the practicability of all the
schools being furnished water by the
Board of Education was questionable.
Minister Damon made suggestion
which he thought would solve the
problem. Oil stoves and containers
of required size could be purchased
cheapiy. Each of the schools should
be furnished these. 4 quantity of
water sufficient for each days use
could be boiled in the morning, and
at a trifiing expense.
w. w. Hall thought the foundry
could furnish supply of boiled water
for the schools in the central portion
of the city, while those in the outer
districts could adopt the plan sug-
C,aStaI h1, NFiniStar
President Dole expressed the opin-
ion that if the Board Of Education
was instructed to furnish the scholars
with boiled water, it would be done
without any trouble or great expense.
DIR. Day believed some distinction
should be made against the infected
districts, the greatest care should be
taken to prevent contamination or
children coming from those places.
& DR.. Woo! reviewed the cholera sit
uatiOn from the date of the first case,
and the possible causes Of the outbreak.
He was very much opposed to opening
schools in the infected districts. lC
was an impOssibiIity TO prevent child
rem from bathing in the NUuanu
stream; they had been used to doing
so for so long that they would sur
noun any obstacle ia order to con-
tiuue. The matter of sending freight
to the other islands was a trivial one
com pared TO this question. The only
source Of danger TO be coDtended
against was the water supply. All in