The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1897-05-27
SESSION
Little of Interest to Gen
era1 Public.
Reports Read About Charges in
Hospital - Charge Against
Sub Inspector.

The Board of Health met yesterday
at 8 D. M, President w o. Smith in
the chair. There were present, be-
sides Mr. Smith, Drs. Emerson and
Monsarrat, Messrs. Lansing, Keliipio
and Brown. DR.. Monsarrat reported on
the slaughter house. In reply to
question by Dr. Emerson, DR.. Monsar-
rat said he inspected hogs in the pen
every day since the recent outbreak.
Mr. Keliipio's report showed the in
spection of over $4,000 fish during the
week.
The appropriation for the Maternity
Home was made, after reading the re-
port of the treasurer.
The application of E. Hammer for
position of druggist at the Hilo Hos
pital was received. Filed. Letter from
E. Dickson for position as caretaker
at the same institution was also filed.
Regarding complaint of Tai Wah
against the sub-fish inspector for de-
stroying his fish was read. Mr.. KeliI-
pio said the difficulty was that the
Chinaman was mixing pond with sea
mullet, and as there is a rule which
permits the sale of sea mullet only for
certain number of hours after being
brought to the market. The difficulty
was that one cannot tell one from
another after a certain length of time,
and as the Chinaman was deceiving the
public. it was the duty Of the sub-in-
spector to protest against 1T.
Mr.. Smith said the man, Tai wan,
felt that he had grievance, and asked
that the case be investigated. The only
trouble was that the sub-inspector Is
said to be interested in rival stall;
if this was really the case, it was
wrong; an employe Of the board should
have no interest in the sale of fish at
the market A committee of one was
appointed to investigate the matter.
]. X. Ioseppa rendered his resigna-
tion as agent of the Board of Health
on Maui. Accepted.
DIR. Graham wrote for permission tc
leave his post occasionally during the
next two months to enable him tc
spend the time at Olinda. Granted.
DR.. II. Hannah, formerly Govern
| ment physician on Maui, and who. re,
signed on account of i'll health, wrote
| from San Francisco, making applica
ton for a position under the board.
The matter of persons to visit Me-
lokai this evening was brought up
| Mr.. Smith stated that he had received
application from so persons who wan
to go on the journey. These he hac
carefully investigated, and it was de-
cided to allow only those who had I'M
portant business to go, in addition tC
| the 10 officers of the war-ships, the
physicians of the city who wish to &c
and one representative from eacf
newspaper.
The matter of charges in hospitals
was brought up by Mr.. Smith in an in
formal way. He did not ask for action
at this time. but he thought it was a
matter to be considered. Until re-
Gently. there was no charge made for
operations in the Queens Hospital
but the physicians feel that they have
been imposed upon. If physicians
wanted the position as surgeons in
public hospitals, they should be willing
to give their services for the price fixed
bv the board, and if it was fixed that
fees would be charged for operations
the amount should go to the hospitals
not to the physicians in charge.
Executive session.