The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-04-23

Hdu HoI IuIIS SfdSpcu the lOed. as
he had considered the matter set
| tied.
Health Agent Reynolds stated
that they were engaged upon d
most important piece of work
when the Portuguese asked per
mission TO take a half holiday.
Their services as men skilled in
the work were required.
They were given fair warning,
but IN the face Of that did what
they said they would do.
The Board upheld the action of
the agent of the Board of Health
land gave that officer instructions
to keep the two Portuguese in
mind for the purpose OF assign:
| ing them to the first work that
could be obtained in the depart
ment under which they were for
merly employed.
DR.. Alvarez was given permits
sion to make arrangements with
Mr.. Emmeluth for certain appli-
ances needed at the Kalihi re-
ceiving station.
DR.. Alvarez stated that he had
been in communication with DR..
a. :. Ashmead of NOrristOWn, Pa,
during which he had received
some very valuable information.
| DR.. Ashmead had been at work
among the lepers in Japan and
promised to send frequent infOr
nation regarding his investiga-
tions of leprosy. Ashmead had
also been in communication with
DR.. GOldschmidt of Madeira,
Azores, and DR.. Carrasquilla of
Bogota, Columbia, who claims to.
have found a serum which will
cure leprosy.
DR.. Goldschmidt is at present
in Paris trying to get the French
Government to call an interna-
tiOnal congress for the discussion
of leprosy, with the object Of in
Producing the stringent measures
of segregation.
DR.. Alvarez stated that he had
been requested by DR.. Ashmead
to ask the Hawaiian Government
| if it would consent to taking part
in the congress. The matter was
being agitated but had not re-
ceived much encouragement as
vet. Both the French and English
Governments had refused to take
part in the proposed discussion.
The proposition was now being
discussed in the United States,
with the hope. of a fruitful out
come.
DR.. Alvarez further stated that
the japanese had never taken of
fetal recognition of leprOsy, and
absolutely ignored it, prefering
to delude themselves with the
thought that the disease did not
exist in their country.
DR.. Day said that the matter of
leprosy was not an important one
in European countries. In Nor
way and Sweden a great deal OF
attention had been paid to the
disease, with the result of a very
perceptible decrease in the num-
Der afflicted.
1t was the sense of the Board |
that DIR. Alvarez write to DR.. Ash
mead telling him of the interest
of that body in the matter and
that if the proposed congress was
to be held the matter would be
taken under consideration.
DR.. Wood wished to call the
of the Board of Health |
and the AttOrney-General to the
fact that, as yet, there was no of
fetal, well-organized system of |
of births and deaths
and the establishment of evil
dence in the cases of suspicious !
deaths. He related the story of |
the death of a Chinaman from the
effects of opium-smoking some
time ago. He was called in at
tendance and found the man in
an unconscious state, completely
by opium. Shortly af-
ter his arrival the man died. The
people in the house admitted that
the man had died of opium-pois-
Oning, but said that he had taken
the drug himself. DIR. Wood said
he was forced to take their word.
He made out the death certificate
with an avoidance Of anything
suicide being put there
on. In every such case an in
quest should be held and all the
facts obtained. There had been a
woeful neglect in this matter by
the police authorities.
Other discussion followed and
he Board went into executive SEES