The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-27
DAIRIES PROTEST
AgainSt Recent Killing Of Num-
bHr Of Cows.
LONG MEETING OF HEALTH BOARD
Many Matters Discussed
and Decided on.
Chinese Hospital Sends In Petition
communication From Custom
House Left With President

AT the regular meeting of the Board
of Health yesterday there were pres
ent the following: President Smith
Drs. Day, Wood, Howard, Monsarrat
Alvarez; Messrs. Lansing, Reynolds
and Keliipio. Minutes of the previous
meeting read and approved.
The usual monthly report (July) of
Kapiolani Maternity Home was read
and approved.
The Board of Examiners reported
that DR.. Hubert Wood had complied
with the regulations of the Board of
Health and recommended that he be
Board recommended that the Minister
of the Interior grant such license.
The same course was followed in the
cases of Drs. J. w. and Philip Waug-
hop, subject to their filing certificates
of character
Protests were received from the
Woodlawn Dairy Stock Company and
the Honolulu Dairy Company in re-
gard TO the killing of certain dairy
COWS, On the ground that they were af-
fiicted with tuberculosis. These were
read and filed.
communication from the Custom
House was read. In this it was asked
that the Board of Health analyZe GER
tain opium pills, recently imported,
which were sent in bundle, with the
idea of ascertaining if there was con-
tanned therein more than the percent
age allowed by law.
1t was the opinion of more than one
member of the Board that the Gus
tom House people were asking the
Board of Health to do their work. 1t
certainly was not one of the duties of
the Board to go down to the Custom
House and see how much opium there
happened to be in the pills.
Samples of the pills were then exhib-
tied to the members, and it was noticed
that they were very much larger than
usual. Some were in the form of tab
lets. The matter was left to President
Smith.
DR.. Thompson of Hilo, who is now in
asked that his leave of abb
sence be extended to October 1st.
Granted.
The next matter that claimed the
of the Board was a petition
from the Board of Directors. of the
Chinese Hospital in Palama. In this it
was stated that the Chinese physician
appointed to superintend the hospital
had been found incompetent to fill the
position. On that account, another ply
sician, very we'll versed in the practice
had been sent for. He arrived on the
Coptic. The physician in question, Dr.
Tong Sui Ting, was direct from the
Tong Wa Hospital. in China, and came
highly recommended by DR.. Thomp-
son, the Government hospital physi-
clan. He had been appointed resident
physician by the Chinese Hospital
and asked that the Board
find some way of granting him a Ii
cense to practice, not on the outside.
but within the limits of the hospital
alone. He was not versed in foreign
methods and could not pass an exam
inatiOn in such. However. in Chinese
methods. there were none in China
who could excel him.
President Smith then read a letter
from Mr.. Frank Damon, in which the
writer, man closely identified with
work among the Chinese in this city,
asked that the petition be granted. In
the granting of a license to Tong Sui
Ting a precedent need not be consid-
cred established.
DR. Wood said Sthat a physician. no
matter of what nationality he hap
pened to be or what methods he had
studied, should know something about
anatomy and physiology. Unless such
were the case a man could not legally
practice medicine.
The Board then moved that the fol-