The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-10-01
Sanitary Condition Of the Islands
Under Consideration.
APPLICATIONS BEFORE THE BOARD
Petition From Chinese PhysicianS-mOtlIcT
Strange Request Regarding Her Child.
Damages From Cholera VisitatiOn-The
WaiIuku Hospital - New Appointment.

Board of Health met at 3 p. m. Pres
ent, w. o. Smith, president, Drs. Wood,
Day and Emerson Messrs. Lansing and
Kelipiio.
The minutes of the previous meeting
were read and approved.
The first matter brought before the
Board was a request from Lee Kai Fai,
Chinaman, and his wife, for license
to practice medicine. A certificate from
DR.. Kerr, medical examiner at Hong
Kong, was to the effect that petitioner
was a practitioner of good standing in
Hong Kong.
Another petition from certain tax
payers in Honolulu, praying that re-
quest be granted, was read. The pc
titions were referred to the Board of
Examiners.
The committee to whom was referred
the tender for drugs reported favor
ably on the bid, and the contract was
awarded to the Hollister Drug Co.
A verbal request from the wife of
leper to send her only child, a girl
twelve years OF age, to the KapiOlani
Home for girls, was read. This re-
quest was considered a peculiar one
and was opposed by several member
of the oBard and peremptorally denied.
Petition of Kinau, a property owner
in the cholera district of last year, for
permission to occupy one of his dwell
ings and rent the others was read.
President Smith stated that these
houses were condemned last year and
had not been occupied since. Kinau,
the petitioner, is a man who is really
poor and unable to earn a livelihood,
and asks to be allowed to rent two of
the dwellings and occupy one.
The Board has been paying his rent
for a year past, but he needed some
thing more than that. The president
stated that the land is a marsh spot,
but that he did not believe the place
was unhealthy. The place was con-
demned in order that excrement would
not get into the harbor and contamin-
ate it.
DR.. Wood said with the use of dry
earth closets there might not be any
harm, but to let the people live there
and dig a vault under the house would
mean danger.
The request was referred to the San
itary Committee to report next week.
DR.. Monsarrat reported 142 bullocks
killed and examined.
Under the Act to Mitigate, sixty
three women were reported examined
during the week. One German taken
from the register at her own request.
DR.. Hildebrand reported examination
of 737 female pupils in the schools, and
to issuing certificates to them.
Letters and reports of DR.. Meyers re-
garding the condition of affairs at the
settlement were read by the president
and his recommendations were carried
out
DR.. R. 3. Williams of Hilo reported
the examination of school children and
issuing certificates. He mentioned read
ing in the Gazette that r. A Layman
had recommended him to the position
of registrar of births and marriages.
He declared this was unauthorized and
he resented it. He had nc time to at
tend to births, deaths or marriages.
The Board of Education reported
that there was no Government ply
sician in the district of Hanalei, and
that the orders of the Board of Health
regarding the examination of school
children could not be carried out. 1t
was decided by the Board to offer DR..
Brown, now at Kealia the position at
Hanalei.
On motion of DR.. Emerson, Sheriff
Andrews of Maui was appointed an
agent of the Board to confer with the
matron of the hospital at Wailuku re-
garding the business and financial mat
| ters of that institution. This is the
same position occupied by the late