The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-03-10
Ladies Point Ont Dangers to the
Health Of Honolulu.
TELL The BOARD In DETAIL
Chinese Sprinkling of Clothes.
Trees and Shrubs-PIea for Clean
Cars-A Heavy Meeting.

At meeting of the Board of Health
yesterday afternoon, there were pres
ent the following: President Smith,
EDrs. Emerson, Alvarez, Wood, Day,
| Messrs. Reynolds, Lansing, Keliipio
| and Brown. Minutes of the last meet
| ing read and approved
Fish Inspector Keliipios report
showed 63,062 fish received at the mar
ket during the last two weeks.
The various hospital reports were
read The Hilo hospital showing four
patients received during the month of
February and receipts of S65.
The Kapiolani Maternity Home re-
port showed $3.50 as a donation from
the Bishop Estate and $242 as expenses
for the month of January. There were
six births during the month mention
ed.
President Smith read petition from
80 residents of Koloa asking that DR..
Hubert Wood be appointed Govern
men physician at that place. This had
been received by Paul R. Isenberg and
handed over to the Board by him.
President Smith stated that no COM
plant had been made against the pres
ent incumbent, DR.. Watt and that DR..
Wood had already been assigned to
position.
The petition was received and filed
and the secretary instructed to make
answer to the effect that due consider
alton would be given the matter
Complaints against w. J. Feary,
superintendent at the leper settlement,
were made by two different people, as
follows:
First-What right has Superinten-
dent Feary to hold property belong
ing to deceased lepers. He should be
instructed that in case there are no re-
latives Of the deceased, the property
be sold at auction. Otherwise there
will be trouble.
Second-Superinten Feary had
better be discharged. Various reasons
were given in this second commune
cation.
letter from DIR. Capron under date
of March 7th, asked that he be allow
ed to Withdraw his resignation as Gov
eminent physician in the District of
Kau and that, instead, he be granted
leave of absence of two months.
President Smith said that the resig
nation of DR.. Capron had been entirely
voluntary. His services had been most
acceptable and there was, in his
mind, no reason why he should not
be allowed what he asked. The Board
thereupon voted that Dr. Capron's pc
tition be granted.
In regard to the matter of physi
clan at South Kona, President Smith
said that Dr. Allen had already gone
there and also that a petition had
come down for the appointment of DR..
Atcherly to that post. The petition
had arrived after DR.. Allen had gone
up temporarily The motion that DR..
Atcherly be appointed physician for
that district, made by C. A. Brown,
was lost.
During discussion it turned out that
Dr. Lindley had been given a leave
of absence and that, therefore, there
was no vacancy in South Kora.
The impression of the members OF
the Board seemed to be that DR.. Lind
ley had resigned. President Smith
stated that DIR. Lindley had written
I'd LII. AIlSu ASKING Till " CdhC 1lo
place during absence.
1t was the sense of the Board, under
the circumstances, that the vote on DIR.
Atcherly be stricken from the minutes.
The Board then voted that DR.. Allen
be offered the position in South Kona
during the absence of DR.. Lindley.
A communication from a firm in
Key West, Fla, announcing the dis
FOO.
Referred to committee on treatment
of leprosy.
DR.. divers application for a short
leave of absence was granted.
President Smith then read the fol-
lowing communication from a commit
tee appointed by the Woman's Board
Of Missions which was referred to the
Committee on Sanitation to report to
the Board:
Honolulu, Feb, 1898.
'fHon. w. o. Smith, President of the
q Board of Health.
Dear Sir:-At the last meeting of
the Woman's Board of Missions,
icommittee was appointed to call the
attention of the Board of Health to
certain abuses, and to ask if their cor
rection would fall within the limit of
your authority.
"The manner of sprinkling clothes
employed in the Chinese laundries
throughout the city has been pronoun-
ced unsanitary by more than one ply
sician; it is certainly repulsive, and
the very unpleasant odor noticeable
in newly Numbered clothes gives one
the Feeling that Notwithstanding the
fact that they have been put through
a cleansing process, they do not i'm
press one with the sense of cleanli-
ness. We have learned that in San
Francisco the health authorities took
this matter in hand, and forbade the
laundrymen to practice their peculiar
method under penalty of five dollars
fine, the result was salutary; few fines
were collected at first, then whisk
brooms were substituted to the i'm
mense relief of the people who now
use their handkerchiefs and table nap
kins without unpleasant reflections.
No legislation was necessary, no eX-
pense involved, save perhaps, few
cases in Police Court to prove that