Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-02-03
The BOARD OF HEALTH
Long Discussion on the Segregation Of
LeperS.
The GarraSQllla Serum Treatment for LeproSy
Pronounced a Failure Watered Milk
Being Sold by Two Diaries.

AL UDe memDeTS vi lne Dodiu
of Health were present at the
regular meeting yesterday after
noon, except DIR. Day.
In calling the meeting to order
president w. o. Smith said he
desired to correct an Impression
which had gone abroad to the
effect that he was opposed to the
appointment of a Food Inspector.
What he meant in his remarks at
a previous meeting WAS that he
WAS opposed to it unless the
Legislature voted sufficient money
to carry on the Office properly
under the complete control of the
Board of Health. Whether this
could be done or not would de-
pend on the generosity of the
DR.. Emerson said the same ne
cessity for examining food of all
kinds existed a. in the special
food known as milk. He had no
doubt that very large amount of
sickness WAS caused from eating
impure food as we'll as drinking
impure milk. An efficient Food
Inspector was wanted who could
look out for all kinds of food in
cluding milk.
Dr.Monsarrat's reports from the
slaughter houses for three weeks
past were read. The doctor also
four cows destroy ed be-
cause of tuberculosis. Three of these
were taken from the pasture, but the
was made that they
were old dairy cows turned out to
recuperate.
inspector Keliipio's report
showed that for the week ending
January 10th 3S,S54 fish were ie
ceived at the market; for the week
23d 2S,30S and week end
ing Both 24,336. The decrease in
the last two weeks was owing to
the Chinese New Year festivities.
DIR. Myers weekly and monthly
January reports under the Act to
Mitigate were read and approved.
The reports show that the japan,
ese have now monopoly Of the
houses of i'll fame in the city
DR.. Shaw presented his first re-
port of milk inspection. Sam ales
from thirteen dairies were taken
from the wagons on the same day.
OF these eleven proved TO b. pure,
one was watered to the extent of
10 per cent. and the other to 20
per cent.
DR.. Monsarrat here asked Pres
ident Smith if there was any law
by which restaurants could be
reached. He had tested the milk
obtained from the tables of res
taurauts and in one Instance found
il to contain GO per cent of water.
Did the power of the Board ex-
tend to cases where milk was
watered after being purchased
from the dairy.
Mr.. Lansing thought this was
exactly where Food Inspector
would come in. If he found
watered milk anywhere he could
seize it and throw it out in the
street as was done in San Fran
cisco and elsewhere.
President Smith doubted if the
Hawaiian law went that far. The
Food Inspector might come into
bis house and throw the breakfast
coffee out because it was not strong
enough according to bis particu-
lar standard. However, he would
look into the matter.
After some Discussion as to
the penalty to be put on the
dairies who worked the pump
handles too freely it was decided tc
suppress the names for the
present, the clerk being ordered
to notify them that if water was
founed in their milk in a subse
quent test they would be publicly
exposed and dealt with according
to law.
Agent Reynolds reported hav-
ing received from Collector Gen
eral McStocker ITS tins of opium
and that he had destroyed th'
same by dumping it in the sea.
DR.. s. Thompson of Nortl
Hilo rendered his resignation
after being twenty years in tn.