The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-12-21
FOR GOOD HEALTH
Important .SGSsiol Of National
Board Held.
AN INSPECTOR FOR WAIKIKI
Geo. Manson Gets the PIace-N otes
From the Settlement on MoIo
kai-Lihue HOSPITAL.
AN INSPECTOR FOR WAIKlKI

The National Board of Health held
yesterday the first meeting for month
and transacted an immense amount of
business in an hour and half.
Reports of the usual tenor and with
the ordinary data were received from
Inspectors Monsarrat and keliipio. The
consumption of meat has lessened
somewhat since the First New York
regiment left, but the demand for fish
is not at all diminished.
George Manson, who has done such
excellent and valuable serviHe for the
Board as sanitary inspector in Wal
kiki, has been appointed permanently
on the staff of the Board and will con-
tinue the good work in his district.
His pay was started from October 1.
DR.. Sandow, late of Helena, Mont, is
placed as Government physician at
Waianae. He has the plantation prac-
tice. DR.. Sandow comes to the IsiaAds
highly recommended.
Application has been made for Gov
ernment aid to the new Lihue hospital.
The Legislature contemplated this
grant and the Board voted to give the
required assistance-$15O a month-to
begin January /, 1899. Private dona-
tionS have been made for the Lihue
hospital, which will be a public insti-
tuition The establishment is a first
class one, we'll equipped.
al NnUpnl l five
inmates. During the month twenty
two were received. The management
spent something over $500 in the
month and was paid from outside
sources S64. The hospital was crowd
ed in November by the military inva-
sion The Victoria annex was used and
two special nurses were employed.
There was assistance from the soldiers.
1t is expected that the United States
Government will pay a portion Of the
$500 expended.
Malulani hospital had eleven pa
tients November /; received TO- dis
charged 8. Three died.
The Kapiolani Maternity Home was
voted the usual allotment after the
November report had been read. For
November the expenditures were but
few dollars more than the receipts
DR.. Spinola petitions for an appoint
ment under the Board of Health. Ap-
plicatiOn filed.
A claim for back pay was received
from Dr. Macmillan, of Kau. He was
at the post for some time before the
Board voted him his commission. The
claim will be Investigated. The doctor
wants salary for March and April. The
appointment was made May /.
~ P M no Dr
w. g. Parker, yet to arrive, he made
Government physician at Hanalei,
Kauai He is to be the medical man
for Kilauea plantation. Action de-
ferred pending the arrival of DR..
Parker.
Dr. Watt, of Kauai, declines, at the
figure of salary named, to undertake
inspection of butcher stock at several
points Arrangements will be made
for inspection at Lihue by Dr. Watt,
through the Board Of Health agent for
Kauai.
Complaint comes from Molokai OF
delivery of paiaf in bad condition. The
issue is between the shippers and the
steamship company, as the Board peo-
pie will receive only such freight as
is in good order.
Mr.. Feary. assistant superintendent
| writes from the Settlement on Molo-
kai that the drought continues ano
| that on this account horses and cattle
are dying off.
An attorney of the Sound country
as he signs himself, claims to have dis
covered cure for leprosy. He declares
he has a secret preparation and that h'
has almost cured a Chinese leper. The
Board is not disposed to deal with th'
| lawyer, who says he has lately falle1
| from a condition OF affluence to poY
erty.
A woman in the Settlement Jail, serv
ing time for larceny and Threatened
| with pardon, asks that she be allowed
to remain in jail the full time-seven
tv-two days more.
The Board ordered advertisement 70
tenders for supplies for the first si-
months of 1899.
The proposed new cart for the ex
cavator outfit will be supplied by tn
lowest bidder. There will be publishe
a call for tenders.
The sanitary inspector Of Japan, Dl
Jordan. writes that the health of tina
whole country seems good. This i