The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-03-11
Ladies Point Ont DANCERS to the
Health Of Honolulu.
TELL THE BOARD IN DETAIL
Chinese Sprinlling OF Clothes
Trees and Shru bs-Plea fer Clean
Cars-A Heavy Meeting.

NeSS-S Reynolds. Lansing, heiuplo
and Brown. Minutes Of the last meet
ing read and approved,
Fish Inspector Eeliipio'S report
showed 6S.06e dsh received a. tAe-mar-
sc. 6u-sns the last TWO weeks
The various hospital reports were
read. The Hllo hospital showing four
patients received during the month OF
February ana receipts o. sos.
The 6aQiolani Maternity Home re
po~ showed $3.50 as donation from
the Bishop Estate and S24s as expenses
Tor the month Of January. There were
SIX births during the month mention
cd.
President Smith read a petition from
81 residents Of Koloa asking that DR.,
HUBER Wood be appointed Govern
men physician a, that place, This had
been received by Paul R. Isenberg and
handed over 20 the Board by him,
President Smith stated that no CON-
plant had been made against the pres
ent incumbent, Dr.. Watt and that Dr..
Wood had already been assigned 10 a
position.
The petition was received and filed
and the secretary instructed 10 make
answer 10 the effect that due consider
a-lol would be given the matter.
Complaints against ". J. Fsary,
superintendent al the leper settlement,
were made by TWO different people, as
follows.
Firs--Whar right has Superinten-
dent Fsary 70 hold property belong
ing 10 deceased lepe-S. He should be
instructed that in case there are no re-
la-ives of the deceased. the property
be sold al auction. Otherwise there
VIII be trouble.
Second-SuperinJendent Feary had
better be discharged. Various reasons
were given in this second communi-
cation.
A letter from Dr.. Capron under date
OF March I'll. asked that he be allow
Cd 10 withdraw his resignation as Gov
eminent physician in the District of
Kan and that, instead, ne be granted
2 leave Of absence OF TWO months.
President Smith said that the resig-
nation o. 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
the7eupon voted that Dr.. CaprOn's Pc
ti-ion be granted.
In regard 10 the matter Of a physi-
clan al South Rona. President Smith
said that Dr.. Allen had already gone
there and also thai 2 petition had
come down for The appointment Of DR..
A-cheTly 10 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, !. Brown,
was lost
During discu ssiCn il TUNED out that
Dr. Lindley had been given q leave
Of absence and that, therefore, there
was no vacancy in South Kona.
The impression OF the members Of
the Board seemed 10 be that DR.. Lind
ley had resigned. President Smith
stated thai Dr.. Lindley had written
20 Dr.. Allen asking him 10 take his
place during absence.
Il was the sense Of the Board, under
the circumstances, that the vote on DR..
The Board then voted that DR.. Allen
be offered the position in South Kona
during the absence Of Dr.. Lindley.
4 communication from a firm in
Key West, Fla. announcing the dis
covery Of cure for leprosy, was read.
Referred 10 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 q commit
lee appointed by the Woman's Board
Of Missions which was referred TO the
Committee on Sanitation TO report TO
the Board:
Honolulu, Feb, 1898.
Hon. ". .. Smith, President of the
Board OF Health.
Dear Sir:-At the last meeting OF
he WOman's Board of Missions. a
committee was appointed 10 call the
attention Of the Board Of Health to
certain abuses, ard 10 ask If their cor
recCon would fall within the limit Of
your authority.
The manner Of sprinkling clothes
employed in the Chinese laundries
throughout the city has been pronoun-
eed unsanitary by more than one ply
stefan; il 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
q 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
lsundrymen TO practice their peculiar
method under penalty OF five dollars
fine, the result was salutary; 3 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
the action was not for fun, it was a
sanitary measure only, introduced by
the Board Of Health.
Another item is the very unclean