Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-05-20
The BOARD OF HEALTH
Members Of hOlOkai Community to Be
Examined Again.
Medicine Running Short Victoria Jubilee An
mex at HllO-Cattle Disease on Kauai
Waikiki NuiSanCeS.

teruay afternoon, at tne1r rooms
in the Judiciary building. Those
present were W. o. Smith, Drs.
Emerson and Day, G. w. Smith
and ID. Keliipio, members, aud
Drs. Alvarez and Monsarrat, G.
b. Reynolds and Chas. Wilcox,
officials.
The following resolution was
read:
l. Every physician or medical
officer In charge of any hospital,
asylum or other institution for
the care or treatment of the sick
maintained by the Board of
Health, is authorized in his dis
erection to make such autopsy, or
scientific examination, as he shall
deem necessary or desirable, of
the body of any patient who has
died in the institution under his
charge.
2. Every such examination
and autopsy shall be made in the
presence of not less than two wit
nesses. The results of every such
autopsy shall be Immediately re-
corded by the physician and
copy of the same sent to the Board
of Health.
3. 1t shall be the privilege of
the friends of the deceased to be
represented at the autopsy by
some person appointed by them
for the purpose.
Action was postponed until
the next regular meeting.
FL. b. Wishard of Lihue, Kauai,
wrote to Senator Rice concerning
action to be taken wheo diseas
ed cattle we're discovered. Mr.
Wishard stated that he had found
but very few infected cattle. The
secretary WAS instructed to CON
municate with him and state that
the Board of Health would try TO
make some arrangements to have
the government physicians look
into the matter or to make them
sanitary inspectors.
A petition that a veterinary sur
peon be appointed for the distric'
of Hilo was read. The petitioners
asked for the appointment of HI.
z. Elliot, a graduate of the Lon.
don Veterinary College. The pc
titior was referred to the Minister
of the Interior.
Several petitions were read from
the natives at Kalaupapa.
A kick was registered by the
natives that the -four poi that was
being supplied could not be toler-
ated much longer. Hereafter the
coffee shops conducted at the Set
Element are to be put in charge of
those whose hands and arms are
not affected.
A Chinese wanted permission to
establish a bakery, stating that he
was thoroughly competent to
manufacture the best of bread, pie
aud cake.
A request for medicine from
Kauai revealed the fact that The
expenditure for drugs during the
past four months bad greatly ex-
ceeded the appropriation therefor,
and Secretary Wilcox was direct
ed to send a circular letter to gov
eminent physicians directing
them to be as saving as possible
in future.
A communication was read from
the British residents in Hilo,
stating that they had subscribed
$4,000 for an annex to the present
Government Hospital there. They
wished to call the annex the
"Victoria Jubilee Annex" 1t is
for the use of the Anglo Saxon
residents of Hawaii.
After some discussion it was
decided that the Board accept the
proposition providing that the
building when erected be turn
ed over to the Hawaiian
government for hospital purposes,
with the reservation that it shall
be used only "for the benefit and
use of the Anglo Saxon residents
of the Island of Hawaii"
The report of the joint special
committee of the Legislature which
recently visited Molokai was
read.
A communication from Minister
Cooper regarding the question of
doubt as to some of the cases at
Molokai was read. The Board
decided to bring the persons in
question to Honolulu for re-ex-
animation.