The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-12-31
THE BOARD Of HEALTH
RECOMMENDS DIRECTIONS FOR
CARE OF CHILDREN'S EYES.
Attention Should Be Given-Treat-
ment-Supplies for the Settlement
Awards-End of the Year.

The last '96 meeting of the Board VI
Health occurred yesterday afternoon
and was still in progress when the
heaviest rainfall during the present
storm was raging. President w. o.
Smith happily remarked that the
Board had done excellent work during
the year. He also paid the reporters
a high tribute for chronicling the do
ings of the Board throughout the
year.
After going over some matters per-
tanning to the leper settlement on Mo-
lokai, the Board listened to a letter
addressed to DR.. John S. McGrew,
president of the Medical Society of
Hawaii, from DIR. II. w. Howard, the
specialist. The letter embodied a
number of directions to mothers for
the cure of sore eyes in the new born.
Here they are:
More care and attention should be
given by mothers and others who have
the care of the babe to the cleansing
of the baby's eyes at the time of birth,
as the majority of the blind are 50
from childhood as a result of sore eyes
contracted when from . days to
weeks of age.
The sore eyes of infants are caused
by the eyes becoming poisoned with
the discharge at the time of birth and
careless cleansing after birth.
When a baby's eyes get the least
sore, consult physician at once, or, f
you are not within reach of one at the
time, cleanse the eyes with cold water,
being careful, if only one eye is .af-
fected, not to allow anything that has
been near the sore eye to come in con-
tact with the well one, as the disease
is very contagious.
If you are where you cannot have Z
doctor see the baby's eyes every day
or SO, then you must wash the eyes
out yourself thoroughly with cold,
strong tea or salt and water Zone
small teaspoonful of salt to a pint of
cold water) every two to four hours,
or often cough to keep all the matter
washed away. These washings must
be kept up as long as there is the
slightest discharge.
Method of Washing: Place the baby
on your lap with the head between
your knees, gently open the eyelids
with the forefinger and thumb of the
left hand, and with the other apply
the wash by saturating a small, soft
cloth or piece of cotton with the solu-
ton and letting it run from this into
removed.
If the eyelids swell much, apply cold
cloths, iced if possible, to the eye,
changing them for fresh ones as soon
as they become warmed. Continue
one or two hours or so, and repeat the
process until the swelling subsidies.
The following awards were made for
supplies to be sent to the leper settle
ment:
Allen & Robinson: Rough n. w.
tongue and groove, n. W., redwood
battens, redwood shingles, redwood
(surfaceD, redwood fence posts, coal
Cd. b. in sacks.
Levers & Cooke: Doors, window
sashes and cement.
Theo. II. Davies q Co.: White lead
and turpentine.
II. Hackfeld G. Co.: Iron but nails,
boiled oil, lime, galvanized iron pipe,
rice, flour, salmon, rice (Hawaiian).
j. 7. Warehouse: Salt (coarse).
baking powder, brooms steamboat or
mild, flour and onions.
II. May &, Co.: Sugar (raw), matches
Qong card), coal Cd. b. in sacks, kerr
osene oil, middlings, potatoes (islandl,
pork extra clear, sugar (No. / raw
NJ. w. McChesney & Sons: Baking
powder (RoyaD, bar soap, bran, sal
mon (best red), salt (coarse).
Lewis q Co.: Beans, coffee, tea,
China and Ponchong), tomatoes lin
cans.)
Loves Bakery: Bread 1.-TWO con-
tracts).
Waialae Ranch: Algaroba wood.
l.. Andrade: Bread.
California Feed Co.: Oats.
Metropolitan Meat Company: Beef
Gump and round), beefstea<.
Union Feed Company: Hay and
bran.
F. F. Porter: Hides and tallow.
The fish inspectors report showed
that 34,674 fish had been received at
the market during the week
Don't be persuaded into buying lin
iments without reputation or merit
Chamberlain's Pain Balm costs no
more, and its merits have been proven
by test of many years. Such letters
as the following, from L. G. Bagley,
Hueneme, Cal, are constantly being
received: "The best remedy for pain
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