The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-11-05
THE BOARD Of HEALTH.
An UNUSUALLY INTERESTING
SESSION OF THAT BODY.
Report on the Insane Asylum-More
Rooms Are Needed-French Scient-
lists EXpected-Congress Delegate.

President w. O. Smith presided ut
the regular session of the Board of
Health yesterday afternoon. Those
present were Drs. Alvarez, Monsarrat,
Day, Wood, Emerson and Messrs. Ke-
liipio, Lansing and Reynolds.
DR.. w. 7. Monsarrat reported that
he had examined seventy-two cases
during each of the two weeks just
passed. These examinations were held
under the act to mitigate. He had
also made 81 examinations during the
month of October.
The report of Inspector Keliipio
showed that $4,000 fish had been re-
ceived at the Fish market during the
past fortnight.
At the Malulani hospital during the
past quarter fifty-three patients had
been registered and $400.50 received
from patients for treatment.
The recommendation of the Board
will accompany the application of DR..
tice, to the Minister of the Interior.
DR.. Burgess has met the requirements
of the Board of Medical Examiners.
The application for license to prac-
tice of DR.. II. p. Hugus was presented
by DIR. Day. DR.. Hugus is expected to
arrive from San Francisco on the 10th
inst.
The appointment of DR.. Weddick as
government physician at Eva to re-
main permanently, also Government
physician at Waianae. temporarily. as
well as agent of the Board of Health,
was made.
\ letter from NJ. Nossion, the French
commissioner in Honolulu. was read.
The commissioner stated that two sa-
wants from the Pasteur Institute in
France expected to visit Hawaii short
ly to study the leprosy plague. The
commissioner desired to know whether
the Government would welcome them
here.
The Board instructed the Secretary
to reply to the commissioner that tbs
French physicians would be welcomed
to the Republic and further that they
would be afforded every advantage
possible by the Board of Health. DIR.
Alvarez, acting under authority of
the Board, called on the French COM
missioner in person recently and as
,sured him of proper welcome being
extended to the French savants. Pres
ident Smith remarked yesterday that
the scientists could be given the Wis
TORS house at the leper settlement
and that the Government could fur
nish supplies.
There arose some discussion on the
ACCESSIBILITY of sending a representa-
tive to the congress of leprosy which
will convene in Bergen, Norway,
shortly. The following resolution in
troduced by DR.. Wood, was adopted:
Resolved, That the Committee on
the Treatment of Leprosy recommend
ed the Board of Health to use its in
fiuence to have the Hawaiian Govern
ment APPOINT delegate to attend the
Congress of Leprosy, to be held N
Bergen, Norway, provided that the
said congress receives the support of
the European and other foreign Gov
ernments.
The secretary read letter from a
physician in the United States, en-
quiring into the regulations governing
the Board of Health. 1t was suggested
by the president that the Board have
printed Il small pamphlet containing
these regulations. 1t would serve as
valuable information to physicians
and agents of the Board and could
also be sent abroad, he said.
The report of 7. f. Lansing on the
insane asylum is as follows:
Males. Females