The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-04-18
A PLACE PICKED
Site for a C0lSumptiVe Hospital
Recommended.
A SPOT HIGH AND DRAINED
Building That Would be Required
Glass of enhancement
Government Aid.

on location and establishment of con
sumptive hospital:
! We, the undersigned the committee
| appointed at the meeting Of the Elk
ecutive Council, Board of Health and
| Trustees Of the Queens Hospital 70
| investigate the question of the loca ton
for consumptive hospital and other
matters connected with such enter
prise, respectfully report as follows:
Your committee has taken into con-
sideration the various localities in the
suburbs OF Honolulu and have person
ally examined the slope on the west
side of Nuuanu Valley leading down
toward the Insane Asylum. The lower
part of the ridge nearest to Nuuanu
Valley is broad and contains a great
deal of suitable ground for buildings
averaging about $50 feet elevation.
This is a perfectly satisfactory place
for the location of a consumptive hos
pital except for the fact that there
is 50 much available ground and it is
so conveniently located that it will
without doubt be shortly in demand
for residences and your committee for
that reason deem it an unsuitable place
for the hospital contemplated mas
much as such hospital would at an
early period be entirely surrounded by
residences.
Your committee thereupon examined
the ridge lying northwest of the one
referred to, separated from it by a
small valley in which a number of
quarries have BEEN worked for the
buildings of the Kamehameha Schools
This second ridge is marrow, contain
ing but a very little available ground
for house lots so that if at the proper
elevation, say about $50 feet from the
sea- a hospital should be located there
would be no room left ON either side
of the ridge for other buildings. The
situation of this second ridge is also
favorable for the purpose, on account
of being further away from Nuuanu
Valley and being thereby somewhat
protected from the fresh trades that
sweep through that valley for a large
part of the year and evidently having
a lesser rain fall than the ridge next
to Nuuanu Valley. Your committee re-
port favorably upon locality on this
ridge, the middle part of which is
about 260 feet above the sea, which
contains nearly level areas of terrace
like formations giving a large amount
of room for buildings, and grounds for
exercise and for out buildings, and
would recommend that not less than
six acres at this point be. secured for
the purpose of the contemplated hos
pital; which area would occupy the
whole ridge except the steep sides and
would in our opinion be sufficient for
all of the needs of the institution. At
this low elevation water could reach
the ground from Nuuanu Valley or
from the contemplated pumping sta
ton in Kalihi.
The development of the first ridge
referred to as a residence section would
require water from the Nuuanu reser-
voirs and the extension of such water
supply across the shallow valley be-
tween to the ground selected would
not be a very expensive work.
If this ground can he secured your
committee would recommend the build
ing of a large central house contain
ing physicians and nurses rooms with
necessary dining and kitchen accom-
modations in the middle portion, and
two wings, each containing two wards
separated by a central hall, sufficient
for about sixteen patients in each
ward, in order to provide for different
nationalities and INDECENT patients:
and that part of such wards be used
for pay and part for INDECENT patients,
and also that cOttag eS be erected on
the grounds as may be found necessary
for patients able to pay for such accom-
modations. Broad verandas should be
attached to the main building and to
the cottages as we'll. The whole
grounds to be substantially fenced.
Access to these grounds is available by
a fair grade from the present road at
the bottom of the valley above the
tram car station.
Your committee recommend that the
institution be managed by a private
corporation upon a similar system to
that of the Queens Hospital, but that
both legislative appropriation and en-
dowment through private benefcence
be sought for its financial support.
Your committee recommend that the
name of the proposed institution be
Hospital for Incurables, and that any
non-contagious incurable cases as we'll
as consumptive eases be provided for.
This locality with the proper road
made to it is so accessible TO Homo
lulu that there would be no difficulty
in Transporting patients and supplies
or in the attendance of physicians.
There is no other locality in the
suburbs of Honolulu which in all res
poets is so suitably located as this is.
The air is pure and cool, 1T Is away
from all other residences and-as has
been satisfactorily accessible.
We would recommend that this
ground be secured if possible and that
the enterprise be energetically pushed
to completion.
Honolulu, II April. 1899.
SANFORD B. DOLE.
GEORGE HERBERT,
CHAS. B. COOPER.
This report is also approved by DIR.