The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-29
Observation-Disclosures


Observation-Disclosures
with the health regulations adopted by
the Board of Health and could not I'M
der any circumstances be considered or
authorized by the Board.
Understanding that the HilO repre-
sentative was only awaiting a reply TO
his and the communication of the Hilo
Board of Health" which had already
been perused by the Board and laid on
the table, President Wood drafted a
letter in reply to Mr.. LOebenstein's
terse note. and upon a reading thereof
to the Board members. with an addi-
ton thereto relative to the money ap-
preparation asked by the Hiloites, the
letter was unanimously accepted by the
Board and sent by a messenger to the
steamer Kilauea HOu, which was lying
in the stream, and placed in Mr.. Loe-
benstein's hands.
The letter reads as follows:
Honolulu, HI, January q, 1900.
A. Loebenstein. Esqr.
On Board Kilauea Hou.
Dear Sir: Your communications
with relation TO the proceedings of the
Citizens Committee at Hilo have been
received at the Board of Health office
As ! understand the situation some
of the residents at Hilo have formed
themselves into a sanitary committee.
which they have seen fit to designate
as the Board of Health Of Hawaii"
OF course, this is a misnomer. as there
is only one Board of Health for the
Hawaiian Islands. provided for. as you
are doubtless aware. by the Legisla-
ture. and consisting of seven members
appointed and commissioned by Pres
ident Dole.
This committee of citizens requests
through you, their representative. that
they be authorized by the Board OF
Health, 10 act as a Health Board for
the Island of Hawaii.
You have forwarded a set of resoIu-
tons adopted by the committee which
you represent, and l presume that YOU
wish authority from the Board of
Health to enforce these resolutions.
You also ask for authority to order
postmortem examinations in all cases
where death has occurred and no phy-
stefan has been in attendance. In re-
lation to the latter request I beg to in
Tor you that such authority is already
vested in the Sheriff of Hawaii who is
also the coroner.
In reply TO the other request. il is nv
duty to inform you that after nerusaI
or the resolutions and other Droceed-
ings Of the Hilo Committee, find that
the resolutions are in most instances in
direct conflict with regulations adopted
by the Board of Health. and consA-
quently. as you will readily understand.
cannot be authorized by the Board.
The idea of the Citizens Sanitary
committee for the Island of Hawaii
is an excellent one. The Citizens SAM
tary Committee of Honolulu has been
an immense help to the Board of
Health in the prevailing endemic
Any representative Committee Chosen
by the people of Hawaii. willing to as
sist the Board Of Health in carrying
OUT us regulations and other measures
adopted 10 prevent the spread of the
plague with the greatest degree of GER
talnty' and at the same time with the
least hardship and distress to tho neo-
pie, VIII De recognized by the Board.
and commissions as agents of the Board
Of Health will be forwarded TO its
members.
Regarding the request for funds. IL
money is needed for any specific pur-
pose. the Board will be glad to forward
the application to the Executive Coun-
ell for presentation to the Council of
State
Very respectfully yours.
G. B. WOOD.
President Board of Health.
President Wood states that If Hflo
desires to form a Citizens Sanitary
Committee basad On sir,;I,r ill., 81