The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-06-02
MILK AND WATER
They Are Sometimes Mixed Here,
Says DR.. ShOFGy.
SAFE o. BUTTER SUBSTITUTES
Notice to Dealers Is Served-A Ply
sicIan Summoned-,Sche OF
PoIs ons Is Issued.
SAFE Of BUTTER SUBSTITUTES

The postponed meeting of the Board
of Health was held yesterday
The usual formal reports were read
and approved.
The Milk Inspector reported that he
had made examinations of milk from
different wagons throughout the
month. He found that there had been
adulteration with water ranging from
10 to 40 per cent.
The Food Inspector informed the
Board that he had examined samples
of butter from various places and had
found that butter substitutes were be-
ing generally sold without being SO
marked. Some of it is sold as cooking
butter and some as Island butter.
1t was decided that Mr.. Shorey be
allowed to instruct the secretary to
warn milk vendors upon their first Of
fense in selling adulterated milk.
1t was moved and carried that the
President of the Board of Health. he
requested to draw up notice for pub
lication informing dealers and vend-
ors that the Board of Health will pros
ecute for certain offenses in regard TO
the sale of adulterated articles under
Act 81, Session Laws of 1898
Agent Reynolds was instructed to
procure bed nettings for the receiving
station at Kalihi.
The usual recommendation for lie
ense was made for DR.. Irwin and DR.
Hodgens
The resignation of J. NJ. Sims as
Milk Inspector was read and accepted.
Mr.. Sims has been offered a more luc-
rative position, therefore he resigned
AS successor the Board appointed J.
Myrrhe.
Moved and carried that Dr.. Sandow
be appointed Government physician at
Waimea.
1t was voted that the secreta V. after
having conferred with the president.
write letter requesting DR.. MacMil-
Ian to come to Honolulu and appear
before the Board of Health to defend
himself against certain charges
brought forward by residents of his
district.
Mr.. Reynolds was instructed to carry
out the following regulation for culti-
waiting taro in Waikolu Valley. ap-
proved July %. 1897:
The whole of the product to be de-
livered to the Board and the cultivItor
to be paid for three-fourths os the
same at the ruling market rate. Any
cultivator neglecting his taro either by
not properly cultivating tie same or by
neglecting TO deliver the taro To the
Board when ripe to forfeit all his
rights to the same And further that
no person cultivating taro at Waikolu
be allowed TO remain away from the
settlement over night
The secretary was instructed to write
to DIR. Carter. of koolau, asking him
in regard to the work there and if he
would accept the position of Govern
ment physician for that district.
The matter of the late suicide and
sons was brought up by Chairman
Smith. By the passage of an act of
1868 this sale was prohibited. but
what should be considered as poison
was not designated. The following
schedules of poisons were adopted:
SCHEDULE \.
Drugs and chemicals which are noJ
to be sold except upon the prescription
or order of a duly licensed practitioner
of medicine:
Cocaine Muriate. Codeine and salts
thereof. Hydrocyanic Acid. Morphine.
Opium and all preparations thereof eX-
cepting Paregoric and preparations of
Opium containing less than two grains
TO the ounce.
SCHEDULE =.
Drugs and Chemicals which arc only
to be sold to responsible parties. and
when properly labelled Poison and
of the sale of which an entry has been
made of the quantity sold. name Of the
purchaser, purpose to be used for and
by whom sold. in book regularly kept
for that purpose.
Aconite. Arsenic and its prepara-
tions. Belladona and its preparations, |
Corrosive Sublimate, Cyanide OF Pot
assium. Cantharides, Carbolic Acid. |