Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-08-01
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Increased Expenses or Insane
Asylum various Reports 60
Hoard ct Health.

The weekly meeting OF the
Board of Health was held yester-
day afternoon. Present; w. o.
Smith, president; Drs Emerson,
Day and Wood, j. 4. Waterhouse
and David Keliipio, members; G.
b. Reynolds, executive officer;
Charles Wilcox, secretary, DR.. j.
X. Smith of Kauai, visitor, and
representatives of the Advertiser
and the BULLETIN.
DIR. w. r. Monsarrat, veterin-
ary and mitigation Inspector, sent
in a report containing nothing
unusual excepting an increase of
subjects of the mitigation act.
A report on vital statistics was
presented by Mr.. Reynolds. 1t
contained the startling revelation
that Chinese were guilty of the
practice of getting burial certi-
ficates when nobody was dead to
be buried. He had made the dis
covery in the course of an inves-
tigation into a sudden increase of
Chinese mortality in the monthly
report. The motive for the fraud
is suspected to be the evasion of
the bonds for Chinese here on sx
months residence permits. A
certain licensed Chinese docter
signed the certificates.
DIR. Wood said that doctors
certificate should be revoked
forthwith. Other members con-
CURED in this, and the president
was asked if there was any law
for further furnishing the fraud.
The president as Attorney-Gen-
eral offered the services of the
police to the executive officer to
follow up applications for burial
certificates from Chinese, and as
certain if deaths really had hap
peued.
Letters from R. w. Meyer, sup
erintendent of the leper settle
ment, relating to affairs there,
were read and filed.
Letters from officials at various
places reported the detention of
lepers. The president suggested
that a vessel should be chartered
to bring them to Honolulu.
Kuhau wanted pay for new
clothes sent to his son in the
Baldwin Home, which after the
boys death had been given to
others. The claim was referred
to Mr.. Meyer for investigation.
DR.. Campbell wrote, thanking
the Board for the handsome ap-
preparation made for the hospital
at Koloa.
A letter was received from DIR.
N. Russell, Waimea, relating a
lamentable condition of things
among the South Sea Islanders
there. They drag out a miserable
existence in a sort of communistic
way. Only a few work of the
forty-five that they number. and
the whole crowd subsisted last
month on total earnings of $1l4,
or eight cents each a day. Their
clothing was of the scantest des.
cription, many of the children be-
ing naked, and Il large proportion
of them had to camp outdoors at
night for want of room in the
huts.
acquisitions for instruments,
ETC., we're received from Govern
ment physician. 1t was decided
to make up in instruments the
value of what he had not drawn
of his allowance for medicines.
A letter from DR.. Mcclure of
Michigan asked for information
about hydrophobia and diphthe-
ria in these islands. He is to
be answered that there has been
no hydrophobia and vely little
diphtheria in this country.
President Smith called atten-
tion to an increase in expenses oi
the Insane Asylum, which was al
a rate that would overrun the ap-
preparation. There had been an
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