The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-11-05
Tor Increased ACC0mIl0-
datiOnS for Patients.
RECOMMENDED BY COMMITTEE
DIR. Day Says Situation is
Critical.
Usual Weekly Meeting of Health
Board - Leprosy Conven-
ton at Bergen,

At the regular weekly meeting of the
Board of Health, held yesterday after
noon, there were present President
Smith, Drs. Day, Wood, Emerson, AL
varez, Monsarrat and Messrs Lansing,
Reynolds and Keliipio.
DR.. w. T. Monsarrat's report, under
the act to mitigate, showed seventy
two examinations for each of the two
weeks last past.
The monthly report from the same
source showed 317 examinations for
October.
The quarterly report of Malulani
Hospital showed f1fty-three patients
taken in and s40O.5O received from pay
ing patients.
Inspector Keliipio's report showed
$4,000 fish received at the Fish Market
during the last two weeks
The Board voted to recommend to
the Minister of the Interior that DR..
Burt S. Burgess be granted license
to practice, he having been duly rec
commended by the Board of Medical Ex-
aminers.
DR.. Day presented an application
from DR.. H. P. Hugus, who will ar
rive here on the next Australia, for
any position that the Board may see
fit to give him.
DR.. Weddick was appointed Govern
ment physician at Eva permanently,
together with the appointment at Wal
amaze, temporarily. He was also made
an agent of the Board of Health.
A letter from a physician in the
States and addressed to the Secretary
of State" of the Republic of Hawaii,
asking questions regarding the regula-
lions governing the Board of Health
and other questions pertaining thereto
was read
President Smith asked the question
if it would not be a good thing for
the Board of Health to issue a small
pamphlet containing regulations gov
erning the Board, laws regarding ply
sicians, and all matters of interest per-
tanning to the work of the Board for
the information of physicians, agents
of the Board of Health and for the pur-
pose of sending abroad to all persons
desiring information such as that
asked for in the letter referred to
above.
President Smith read a letter from
the French Commissioner, relating
further to the proposed coming to the
Islands of the two physicians from the
Pasteur Institute in France for the
purpose of studying leprosy. He stat
ed that the matter of recompense was
secondary, and that the main thing
was whether the Government would
welcome the savants here.
DR.. Wood said that the committe ap-
pointed had instructed DR.. Alvarez to
call on the French Commissioner for
the purpose of assuring him that the
savants would be very welcome and
that the Board of Health would do all
within its power consistent with the
means at hand to help them in their
Investigations.
President Smith said that the visit
ors could be helped in the matter of
supplies, that they could be given the
visitors house at the leper settlement
and that other things could be done for
them.
DR.. Alvarez told of his call on the
French Commissioner, saying that he
had told him the Government could
not pay the expenses of the physicians.
The welcome of the Government was
assured. NJ. Vossion seemed we'll sat
isfied, and said he would lay the mat
ter before the Pasteur Institute.
T. F. Lansing reported on the In
sane Asylum as follows: