Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-10-22
BOARD OF HEALTH MEETING
Favorable Reports from the MOlokai
Leper Settlement.
The Drug Contract Awarded More Protests
Against Killing Tuberculous Cattle --Diph-
iberia and Dysntery Reports.

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the minutes and routine reports
protest was read from Paul Isen-
berg Jr. to the effect that he
would endeavor to hold the gov
eminent responsible in damages
for three cows killed for tuber-
culosis. One Holstein COW i'm.
ported from Germany was valued
at $3.50; another California COW at
$50 and third of Hawaiian
stock at 1875.
DIR. Monsarrat submitted a re-
port on the condition of A. A.
Montano's dairy at Manoa valley.
Thirty one cows and one bull
were tested, out of which two
we're found infected with tuber.
culosis and killed.
The quarterly reports OF the
Malulani, Koloa and Waimea
hospitals were read and approved.
President Smith said that the
clerk of the board had made re-
port to him of several sanitary
matters at the Waikiki hospital
requiring attention. He would
look into the matter personally,
as he was going to Maui on the
Kinau.
DIR. Oliver sent in his quarterly
report from the Leper Set.
Element, showing % deaths
in that period. There had
been 2l00 calls at the dispensary
and 164O visits paid. The general
health of the settlement was good.
DR.. Emerson presented report
! on the condition of the four pa
tients at the leper receiving
station who are taking the Kusat-
su bath treatment. There was
some improvement, but it was too
early to state whether it would be
permanent or not.
Deputy-Superintendent Hut
Crimson wrote from the leper
settlement that all of the big dogs
had been killed off, in all 81,
About an equal number had been
"kalued." There had been no
opposition to the killing off of the
dogs and none but small poodles
remained alive. Work on the
Waialeia cart road was progress
ing slowly.
Sheriff Andrews wrote to the
Board declining the appointment
of business agent of the Hilo hos
pital, as be had no time to
attend to it. The Hilo hospital
was not in that advanced
condition ascribed to it by the
Hilo Tribune. He acknowledged
that the item of S5 per day for a
carpenter for % days in putting
up shelving, etc, about the
hospital was high, but said
that Hilo mechanics would
not work for the govern
ment for less because they had to
wait three or four months for
their money or shave their bills
rs per cent to some money lender.
Applications asking for the
appointment of government ply
stefan at Kolos, in case the Koloa
and Lihue districts should be
united, were read from Drs. A.
Il. Sinclair and Hubert Wood
President Smith said no deter
mination had yet been reached by
the Executive az to combining
the two districts, and the matter
went over.
DIR. Archer Irving, acting ply
stefan at North Hilo, reported
cases of diphtheria at Laupahoe
hoe. Two patients in one family
were attacked first and then three
more, with the chances that il
would run through the whole
family of nine. The disease was
not of a virulent form.
A letter was also received from
DIR. Thompson reporting that be
had returned to the country and
resumed his duties a. government
ply stefan at North Hilo.
President Smith next read re-
port from DR.. Eldredge of Yoko-
hama on the progress of the cpl
demic of dysentery in japan. The
government reported percepti-
BILE decrease, but be himself faileC
to see it from the data at his com
mand and the statistics he en-
closed.
| President Smith next reported
that the Minister of Foreign
Affairs had appointed DIR. Roka