The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-03
BOARD OF HEALTH
Regular Meeting Held Yesterday
Afternoon.
REFORMS AT LEPER STATIONS
Disposition of Aliens Who
Become Insane.
Condition of Affairs at Moloka
improvements at Girls Home.
Weekly Reports.

The Board of Health met at p. m.
the chair. There were present Messrs.
Reynolds, Lansing, Brown, Keliipio,
Drs Wood, Monsarrat, Alvarez, How
ard, Day and Emerson.
The minutes were read and approved,
and DR.. Monsarrat reported inspection
of 159 bullocks killed at the slaughter
house. Under the act to mitigate
there were 81 examinations reported.
The decrease in the number being at
tributed to the fact that several had
been taken off the list.
Mr.. Keliipio reported the inspection
of $4,000 fish for the week.
A report from the Examining Board
to the effect that Hong Sui Lun, Chi
nese physician, has passed a satisfac-
tory examination. On motion of DR..
Wood it was recommended that the
Minister of the Interior grant him a
license to practice.
Petition from Wah Kee, a laundry
man on King street, to be excused
from moving to Iwelei was read. 1t
being stated by the Executive officer
that he was within the district con-
fined by law prohibiting the mainten-
ance of wash houses, the secretary was
instructed to notify Wah Kee that the
law could not be interfered with.
The matter of care of insane aliens,
the question of returning those who
become insane here to their home was
discussed. 1t was decided to author
ize the Board to send home persons at
the expense of the Government in cases
where the patient has not the means to
pay for transportation. DR.. Herbert
who was present, stated that it was
common among Chinese and Japanese
to request to be allowed to send their
friends back, and where it was posi-
BILE they collected sufficient money to
pay for such transportation. President
Smith complimented DR.. Herbert for
conducting the Insane Asylum within
the amount of the appropriation.
W. G. Irwin & Co., agents for one of
the Japan steamship companies, wrote
to inquire relative to the double eX-
animation of Japanese emigrants for
this port. The managers of the steam
ship company requests that the inspec-
ton be confined to Yokohama on &C
count of the double expense and inter
ference with working of cargo DR..
Eldredge, medical inspector, wrote the
Board in a similar strain, but added
that he would continue the inspection
at Kobe, so long as the smallpox
scOurge continues there 1t was the
sense of the Board that the inspection
of emigrants at Yokohama who came
from Kobe, destined for Hawaii, would
be necessary, in view of the prevalence
of contagious diseases in Japan ports.
DR.. Eldredge, chief medical inspector,
will be instructed to modify these reg
ulatiOns as soon as in his judgment the
condition of affairs will justify it.
President Smith announced that the
Executive Council approves of the idea
of sending a delegate to the Congress
of LeprOlogists, which meets in Ber-
gen, Norway, provided the Congress
has the support of other Governments.
The president reported that the trip
to Molokai by the Board was success
full in every way. He said they had
found evidence of improvement in va
rious ways, notably the boys home,
which. under the able management of
Brother Dutton, the institution was one
which the Board could feel proud of
The girls home was found in good con-
dition, but-in need of a boiler for heat
ing purposes. Executive Officer Rey-
nolds was instructed to inquire as to
the cost of such a boiler He also