The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-02-19
BOARD OF HEALTH
Report Of the Period Presented to
Legislature.
The GENERAL HEALTH is GOOD
recommendations Made Steam
Launch Needed for Boarding
Vessels Outside.
THE GENERAL HEALTH IS GOOD

Attorney General Smith, as Presi-
dent Of the Board of Health, has pre-
sented an exhaustive report covering
nearly 200 pages of printed matter
He reports on Public health in gen
eral, and takes up the question OF
quarantine regulations and the conta-
gious and other diseases. The heads
reported on are, in addition, leprosy
and the settlement and the two homes
and the department work at Molokai
Under this head came also the Kapio-
lani home for non-leprous girls and
the Kalihi station. The preliminary
report Of DIR. Alvarez is incorporated.
He reports on hospitals, Kapiolani
Maternity Home, the Insane Asylum,
the act to mitigate, fish and slaughter
house inspection, and inspection of food
supplies and sanitary inspection and
removal of garbage, tuberculosis in
cattle, port physicians report, vacci-
nation and health certificates, opium
condemned, sewerage and filtration and
cemeteries.
The report on sanitary inspection at
the ports of China and Japan is de-
tailed account of the methods en-
ployed at the several ports of those
countries, their quarantine regula-
tions, their treatment of leprosy, fish
market regulations, prison systems,
and water and sewerage systems. The
report of F. NJ. Day, M. D., of his
special mission to Japan and China,
already published in the Advertiser. is
also incorporated.
During the period, 256 persons have
been sent to the leper settlement.
There have landed at the quarantine
station 16,40S persons, from ga vessels,
60 of which were in good sanitary con-
dition.
The need of sewerage system of
Honolulu is emphasized and a compar-
alton table of towns in England is
given showing the value of the systems
and the mortality percentage before
and after the establishment of the sys-
tenn. During the period 1882 persons
have died in Honolulu. In the 18
months since the new law went INTO
effect 120 deaths have been reported
from Hilo and 72 from Wailuku, Maui.
The total number of births for the Is
months in Honolulu, Hilo and Wailu-
ku is 779, and marriages SOB.
Recommendation are made for bet
ter facilities and improvements at the
settlement, included in which is that
for the building of a breakwater, and
a new water system, the estimated cost
of which is S19, 800 The water would
be brought $4,000 feet
During the two years, SO patients
have been committed to the hospital
discharged and 19 have died. This
leaves an increase in the number Of
patients and it is recommend by :he
superintendent to enlarge the wards.
There are at present 112 inmates.
The port physician has examined
259 steamships and 15 sailing vessels
from foreign ports. A steam launch
to cost $4,000 is recommended. Un-
der the act to mitigate there are Us
names on the register. At the Gov
ernment Dispensary 20,417 persons
have presented themselves for treat
ment, 6,S16 health certificates have
been granted, 2,2S5 persons have beer
vaccinated.
The Inspector at the Slaughter House
has examined 1915 cattle, 3,12;
calves, 14,469 sheep and 1860 swine
The carcasses of q COWS and 13 steer:
were condemned during the period af
fected with tuberculosis, the sheer
| were all in good condition and 3:
swine were condemned Of the Is, IA
| bullocks examined, 9,456 had gooC
| livers; $3.50 out of the 3,123 calves
examined had good liversi
In the Honolulu district 56S nea
cattle have been tagged and numbered
SO were tested and 1876 condemned ant
killed Under this head the question
| of payment for cattle killed is dis
cussed. Prevailing conditions il
many of the United States are detailed
as we'll as those of other foreign coun
| tries on the subject. The inspecto
! quotes a resolution presented at tn,
Veterinary Medical Society at Nash
ville Tenn, to the effect that thu
private employment of the teubercu
line test is fraught with danger.
At the Malulani Hospital 351 pa
tientS have been treated There wer