The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-08-27


yesterday. Present, w. o. Smith, presi-
dent; Drs Day, Wood, Emerson, and
Messrs. Keliipio, Lansing, G. B. Rey-
nolds, Executive officer; DR.. Alvarez
and Dr. w T. Monsarrat.
DR.. Monsarrat reported the inspec-
ton of 143 bullocks killed. Any that
were at all infected were condemned.
\<Under the Act to Mitigate, seventy
women were reported examined.
Inspector Keliipio reported 4S,374 fish
examined.
The report of the Superintendent of
the Insane Asylum showed seventy
inmates, as follows: Hawaiians, %;
Chinese, 20; Portuguese, %.
Mr.. Lansing, from the Insane Asylum
Committee, reported a request from
Mr.. Cutter for wiring the building for
electric lights.
President Smith suggested that as
the expenses of the Asylum must be
closely guarded, Mr. Rowell had better
go over and Investigate.
DR.. H. w. Howard reported 2,764 pa
tients treated at the dispensary during
the last quarter; 735 health certificates
issued to school children and denied,
and lepers apprehended.
Superintendent Meyers of the leper
settlement reported that the site for
the new bath house had been selected
and that work would soon begin. He
also stated that there had been consid
cradle sickness at the settlement, but
it had passed over.
An application from DIR. r. H. Brown
for license to practice was referred to
the Board of Examiners, and he was so
notified.
The following interesting letter from
DR.. Gregory Jordan, medical inspector
at Kobe, Japan, was read:
Hong Kong, 1St August, 1896.
To the Hon. Henry E. Cooper,
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Re
public of Hawaii:
Sir:-I have the honor to inform you
that since the date of the departure of
the last steamer for Honolulu up to the
present and embracing a period of 20
days, there have been 26 fresh cases of
plague reported and % deaths. l re-
gret extremely to state that during this
period one European, Sister Catherine
Mcintosh, has been attacked with this
disease. Sister Catherine was one
of the most indefatigabIe workers dur
ing the severe epidemic of 1894, being
in constant attendance on the sick at
the Plague Hospital at Kennedy Town,
but was not affected them. Again this
year she has been constantly nursing
at the Plague Hospital, but has now
been attacked by the disease. l am
glad to report, however, that she has
passed the crisis and is on the fair road
of recovery.
The period embraced in this report
has been in other respects uneventful
as to health statistics. The usual num-
Der of malarial fever cases occur, but
owing to the extreme drought bowel
complaints are very rare.
We have lately experienced period
of extreme heat, the thermometer
standing as high as "a deg. Fair. in the
shade of offices in the city. So high a
temperature is unprecedented and un-
known to the oldest residents of the
Colony. l regret to state that this
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several casualties, there have been a
few fatal cases of sunstroke (Heat Apo
plexy), both in the harbor and on shore.
Two Of these fatal cases have been at
tended with extreme temperatures of
109 deg. and 1856 deg. Fair. in the
axilla, and both fatal within a very
few hours.
The Colony is at present suffering g
from hte effects of a severe TyphoOn
which passed over the city on the night
of the 29th instant and has put a severe
strain on the scavenging work of the
city. The streets being spread with
broken branches of trees and foliage,
together with blown down tiles from
roofs of houses, etc, and along the
Praya the streets being cut up by the
continual wash of the sea spray.
In conclusion, beg, to attach a memo
of the daily number of Plague cases