The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-11-23
BOARD OF HEALTH
New System of Registra :
ton to be Started.
The kapiolani Hons -Trained Nurse
Appol tsG-GOvarnm Ply
SIC an Resigns.

Al the meeting Of the Board O
Health yesterday afternoon there wer,
present the President of the Board
Minister Cooper, DR.. Day, DR.. Emerson
Mr.. Keliipio. Agent Reynolds anc
Secretary Wilcox.
The previous meetings minutes were
read and approved without discussion
The reports of the Slaughter House
Committee were read showing that tbs
animals killed had been in good con-
ditiOn throughout, and the fish market
reports gave no indication of com
plants as TO the foods which had pass
ed through the market.
Minister Cooper stated that the
Board of Health, in conjunction with
the Police Department. intended to
commence a new system of registration
under the Mitigation act, which, he
hoped, would prove beneficial in its
working
The monthly report of the Kapiolani
Maternity Home for the month of Octo-
Der showed receipts amounting TO
$121S.15, including $1,000 which had
been donated by J. F. HackfeId, and
disbursements S42357. Four births
were recorded during the month. A
letter from the Treasurer of the Home
was read, announcing the appointment
of Mrs. z. G. Wilson, a trained nurse
graduate OF Waldeck and East Bay
Hospitals, California, to take charge Of
the Home i'll place of Mrs. Caroline
Clark, resigned.
The application of DR.. Alva Garrison
dated October 3lst, for a license TO
practice medicine in the Islands, was
granted upon the certificates Of his eX-
animation and credentials.
A communication from DR.. lie Brun
of Hawaii was read, in which he ten
ders his resignation as Government
for the District of Puma, Ha-
waii, and requesting that Frank Irwin,
NJ D., who has been temporarily filling
that position during Dr.. LIE Bruins alb
sence. be appointed in his place. DR..
lie Bruins resignation was accepted,
and upon motion Dr. Frank Irwin was
appointed as his successor.
The vacancy in the North Kona dis
trict occasioned by the death of DR..
has not yet been filled, the
Board deferring the matter until the
next meeting. Sheriff Coney wrote the
Board that he had investigated the
case of DR.. Kimashima who was
thought to be practicing his profession
without a license, stating that the doc
tor held a license issued him in 1894
by Minister King.
Minister Cooper stated that it was
the intention of the Board to sell at
public auction on Saturday, November
25th, at noon, the opium which mas
been seized by the Health and Police
DEPARTMENTS, amounting to 1871 half
pound tins.
The absence of Dr. Carmichael from
the meeting deferred discussion on the
merits of the Anti-Leprous shrubs as
a curative for leprosy. Minister Cooper
stated that the United States Govern
ment had requested through DR.. Car
michael. that the health principle OF
the shrub be given a practical test, but
no action was to be taken in the mat
ter until it met with the approval CT
the Board of Health.
Nothing important had been received
from Dr.. Waughop who had been sent
by the Board upon q tour of the other
Islands to investigate the tuberculosis
\ half-hour's executive session clos
ed the meeting of the Board.