The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-09-08
IKAALATO MOL0KAI
| Board Of Health Decides to Charter
a Steamer.
To TAKE VISITORS To SETTLEMENT
Rules and Regulations for
Hilo Hospital.
Incurable Opium Fiends to be
Photographed-Wi be Known
by Their Pictures.

| At the regular weekly meeting of the
Board of Health yesterday afternoon
| there were present the following:
President Smith, Drs. Day, Wood, EN-
| erson and Howard; Messrs Lansing,
Reynolds and Keliipio. Minutes Of the
| previous meeting read and approved.
The fish report for the week ending
Sunday, September 5th, showed 4O,155
fish examined; and the report of the
insane Asylum for the quarter ending
June Goth showed 106 patients in the
place at that time Of these, 80 were
Cinnamon, 20 Hawaiians, 19 Portu-
| guese and the remainder divided up
among various other nationalities.
Another protest from Woodlawn
Dairy against the killing of 15 dairy
cows was read by President Smith and
fled
The matter of allowing Mrs DIR. Hill
debrand to examine the girls of the va
rious schools of the city, was next
brought up. DR.. Howard reported that
there were about 1000 girls in all the
schools. The work would be about the
same as it was last year. Mrs. Dr. Hill
debrand did the work of examining the
girls at the beginning Of the last school
year.
1t was decided that Mrs. DR.. Hide
brand be asked to do the work with
the understanding that she receive the
same compensation as last year.
A communication was received from
German Consul Hackfeld, asking that
permission be granted Drs. Kramer
and Thilenius, two visiting German
physicians, to visit the Leper Settle
ment. Granted
President Smith announced that DIR.
S. d. Brooks of the United States Ma
rine Hospital Service, who has been to
Japan to inspect all the ports to which
steamers from the United States run
with a view to making. quarantine
regulations, had arrived in the city 1t
was moved that the steamer Kaala be |
chartered to take to Molokai Dr. |
Brooks and any members of the Board |
Of Health who might care to go. Car
ried, with the understanding that no |
outsiders be allowed to go.
President Smith stated that Police |
Wilcox had called upon him
and told of a certain Chinaman con-
victed by him on the charge of unlaw-
jul possession of opium. Upon trial he
showed permit from DR.. Howard, the
physician, granting the
use of 20 grains of opium per day. A
part of a tin and a hornful were found
n his possession when arrested, this
being far in excess of the amount
n Tlr hod |
led in regard to the matter, and had
called in all certificates and had in
structed the patients that, in case of
heir arrest for the use of the opium
granted them, he would go before the
Court and state the facts in the case.
Asked by President Smith for some
suggestion to prevent abuse, DR.. How
ard said that the only good plan he
could think of would be to have three
pictures of each patient, one to go to
he MarshaPs department, one to go on
he record book at the dispensary and
he last to be attached to the permit
granted.
President Smith asked if it was not
possible to administer the opium to the
PATIENTS at the dispensary, this with a
Jew of preventing the abuses that re-
ulted from time to time.
DR.. Day said that, in case of abuse.
[ was no more than right that a pa
lent should forfeit his permit and the
mount of opium granted by the same.
A motion was then made and carried
o the effect that each patient be re-
uired to furnish three photographs as
uggested by DR.. Howard, this at their
wn expense; also, that in each case
he permit to state the amount of ]
plum allowed and at what periods and ]
hat, in case of abuse of privilege, the I
ermit be cancelled.
DR.. Howard brought up the question