The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-01
To
Be GUARDED.
Contact with Visitors
Tabu.
BOARD OF HEALTH ACTS
Isolation Useless Unless Precautions
Taken--Meat Furnished
Is Bad.

on all future visits of the Board of
Health to the Molokai settlement strict
measures are to be taken that the col
onists do not mix as they did upon the
,ast visit with the friends and relatives
who accompanied the board to the ISL
and. At yesterdays meeting of the
board the question was carefully dis
cussed and 1t was the consensus of
opinion that the system of isolation was
a farce as at present carried on IL the
visitors to the Islands were to be al
lowed to mingle 80 freely as they are
accustomed to do with the lepers on the
occasions OF the visits of the board.
DR.. Wood brought the matter before
the board at the outset of the meeting.
He made a brief formal report of the
visit so that 1t might go on the records
of the board and added that he believ-
ed that 1T would not be necessary for
the board to pay more than one visit
each year to the settlement, for with
/ Superintendent Reynolds spending half
his time there and rendering complete
| reports to the board at frequent in
| to do when it paid its visit save to look
/ the place over and see that all was go
| ing well there. He said also that he be-
| lieved il inexpedient hereafter to take
so many visitors on these trips, visit
ors, that is who went to the settlement
only out of curiosity and not for bust
ness.
II wish to speak particularly" DR..
Wood went on, about the criticisms
that have been made in the press OF
the city with regard to allowing tbs
friends and relatives of the lepers to
mix as freely as they do with them or
these visits. We all saw them meet
and embrace each other and we know
that the visitors went to the houses Of
their friends and ate with them and en-
joyed the most intimate relations will
them. 1t is my opinion that this is no
proper and not rational. The boarC
by it's orders deprives these people o
their liberty, practically sentences then
to imprisonment for life. We do tht
because we believe that the diseas
from which they are suffering is con
tagious and we believe 1t is for tn
good of the Territory that they be KEEP
apart from their fellow men.
Considering this IL is not logical 70
us to permit their relatives to visi
them at intervals and to go abou
! among them and eat with them just a
if they were not afflicted with the dis
: ease. 1 do not mean that l believe /
cutting off communication with ther
but only that whatever is unnecessar
in these meetings should be eliminated
/ think that the relatives and friend
}, of the lepers ought to be permitted
see them more frequently and less In
timately. 1t has been considered be
! fore by the board but it was M
], thought feasible to place any restriC
= tons on the meetings of the lepers an
: | their friends. | think that the matte
. is worthy of serious considerable
= now"
DR.. Emerson said thu he quite agree
:. with President Wood and he said tn;
!. he believed that it would be wise to a
cept the suggestion of DR.. Wood tn;
a barrier be erected at the landir
- place and that the visitors and the lel
. ers be kept apart.
Mr.. Lowrey then presented a resol-
ton which was unanimously adopte
that a committee of three be appoints
by the Chairman to make rules al
regulations governing permits to Wis
the settlement and to regulate the CO
duct of visitors while there.
DIR. Wood also made a statement co
corning the meat which is provided t
settlers. He said that 1t had been r
ported to him that the beef was
bad that half of the settlers were n
drawing their ration of Ii as 1t was e
tirely unfit to be eaten.
"Who has the contract for furnishil
the meat to the settlement" asked L
Cooper.
THE Parker RANCH" Dr. Garvin 7
piled. MIR. Parker told me some tir
ago that he did not care a continent
whether we used his beef or not,
he said he could get rid of IL here cas-
enough and get more money for
too. .
Upon Mr.. Lowrey's suggestion 1t W
decided to ask bids for furnishing I
settlement with canned cooked be
such as is put up by the big packi
houses of the States. DR.. Cooper see