The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-06-12

Tho raquIar meeting of the Board
% Health held Wednesday afternoon
there were present President Emerson
Dr Dav. Messrs. Lansing, Kelllplo' Key
noIds and others. The meeting was ny
M means an enthusiastic one, but some
i,,,r,or+ant measures were decided upon,
nevertheless.
Or Monsarrat's report showed 64 eX-
aminations under the Act to Mitigate.
Fish Inspector Keliipio's report show
cd AZ 1927 fish received at the market
for the week ending May 3lst, ana ~
A66 on the week ending June TN.
A communication from four Oh Che
native Iepers at Waikolu, Moloha!' III
nnired into facts relating to the raising
of taro at that place. This was referred
tn Mr.. Meyers of the leper settlement
Tho ie authority on such subjects.
In the matter of examination OF
ecboo1s President Emerson, to whom
tho matter was referred, reported as
follows: That each Government ply
stefan in completing his examination,
should send a report of such to the
Board of Health, setting forth therein
the number of students who failed 10
nresent themselves for examination,
and also the number and names OF those
who failed to pass such examination.
The teachers and heads of the various
schools should be notified, warning
them against taking into their respect
i've rooms and institutions students
without the proper certificates slgnl-
flying passage of the proper eHanllla-
ton as to their health.
President Emerson said that he was
very strongly in favor OF making the
matter of vaccination entirely separate
from that of general examination. In
his mind it was wrong to have the TWO
conflicting.
The Board decided to require all
schools to complete the prescribed eX-
animation at the end of two weeks al
fer opening of schools. This would be
ample time and would concentrate that
part of the regulation of health mat
tiers within a convenient space OF time.
One of the members of the Board
preached the subject of the odorless eX-
cayatOrs in the back of the Pacific Mall
wharf. as exposed in this paper of We'd
nesday morning. All of the members
present seemed to think that the NUS
ance should be abated. -Four OF the
Board said that they had been upon
the scene of action and had registered
upon them the effects that many an
other had complained of. 1t will remain
to be seen if the opinions expressed by
those frank members of the Board will
be reflected in the future when people
are on the Pacific Mail wharf, bidding
last farewell to departing friends.
Said Mr. Lansing, on the subject: Il
Ha in oh
really an odorless eXcavator whose con-
tents he had just dumped into the
scow, and no answer was forthcoming.
Said Dr. Day: ''The smell was some
thing vile on the Pacific Mail wharf. "
Although others remained silent, the
expression of their faces told only too
we'll that their views were in accordance
with those of the members who had
just spoken.
After that was all over, a japanese
pharmacist who had applied for per-
mission to open a drug store in the
city was called in, together with his
interpreter, from the cooling shade of
the banyan tree without. After ma king
a very profound bow, he seated himself
and waited the outcome of an examina-
ton which he saw was about to break
upon him.
He was asked if he desired to open a
drug store, and answered in the af-
firmative. Then he was asked If he in
tended to sell European as we'll as Jap
anese medicines, filling prescriptions
likewise. To this he answered in the
affirmative. After this he came to the
conclusion that he could not read Eng
lish and Latin, and therefore would be
unable to sell European medicines.
1t was found that the interpreter he
brought along with him was not very
apt scholar in the English language, so
the final seance with the Japanese was
postponed until Saturday night, when
he will meet a committee from the
Board, together with a Japanese ply
stefan of repute in the city.
When this was finished, the case of
DR.. Akana was brought up, but was de-
ferred.
Board went into executive session.