The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1896-10-01
The Board of Health.

wife petitioned for license to
practice medicine. Referred to the
Board Of Examiners. Hollister g.
Co. obtained the drug contract. A
request from the wife Of leper to
have her child sent to the Kapiolani
Home was denied.
Among the routine reports were
l42 bullocks killed and examined,
63 women OF purchaseable virtue
passed and 1877 female pupils ex-
amined and certiicated.
The following communication was
read by President Smith:
No. 2l0 WEST FOURTH STREET,
New York U.S.A., Sept. IL, lS96.}
PRESIDENT w. o. SMITH, Board OF
Health, Honolulu, Hawaii:
Dear Sir:-D. Goldschmidt, late OF
Modena, now at Paris, in a letter to
me, last December, proposed that
Congress OF Leprogists should be
held for tho suppression aud pre-.
venton of leprosy. 10 letter |
wrote to DR.. Armauer Hansen, re-
ferred to this proposition and sug-
gested the formation OF an inter
national committee, one delegate
from each government, to be perma-
nently active, to meet once year,
and to take cognizance OF all ques.
tons and problems relating TO
leprosy, all over the world. also
suggested the collection of fund,
in every country, for the use Of this
committee, to support asylums,
where such help is wanted, and to
send specialists wherever they are
needed. DR.. Hansen, at once re-
ceived these overtures with favor
and submitted them to his chief,
who in turn, communicated them to
the Norwegian Government. In his
answer to me- DIR. Hansen said that
it was the desire Of the Norwegian
physicians that the seat OF the first
leprosy congress should be Bergen,
Norway, and that the Norwegian
Government was willing to issue the
call for the first leprosy congress,
provided it bad assurances OF SYM
patty from other governments. /
at once applied to President Cleve-
land, to Her British Majesty, to the
Emperor Of Germany, to President
Diaz OF Mexico, to Lord Aberdeen
OF Canada, to the Japanese and Chi
nese Governments, and to all the
Republics OF South America. I also
submitted this scheme to the Amer
lean Derma'ological Association, to
the American Public Health Ass0ci-
alton (of Canada, the United States
aud Mexico), and to Miss Clara Bar
ton, the President OF the American
Red Cross Society. 1t is to be com
municated also to the Pope through
Archbishop Corrigan. 1t is desired
that every influence that may exist
of any kind, be brought to bear
upon the different governments sc
that they may consent to appoint
official delegates. OF course lepro
logists in their private capacity, OIL
as representatives OF associations
, will be- united, and are expected to
, attend. The committee, formed by
delegates, will be exclusively con
cerned with the PRONUNCIATION anC
application of laws suitable to the
suppression aud prevention o
leprosy in each country, leaving the
discussion OF questions Of etiology
bacteriology cure, ETC., to the special
, lists. This is the plan as it stand
now, and as it was submitted by m,
to DR.. Goldschmidt. DR.. Gold
schmidt, in his reply, has suggested
that Moscow be the seat OF congress
as the International Congress is Il
meet there next year. This is opel
to the following objections: 1st-I
the leprosy congress is held in Mos
COW, along with he regular Inter
!, national Congress, it will of neces
8 sity fall into position of secondar,
> influence, and will be in fact only