The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-27
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Physicians Against New
Hospital.
MEETING OF MED|cOs
DR.. Cooper Urges Measures to Pre-
vent Charlatanry in the Pro-
fession--Others Speak.

The medical fraternity of this city
does not look with favor upon the new
hospital which DR.. Gal
braith and others are proposing to es-
tabish. At the meeting of the Hawaii
Health rooms on Saturday evening the
subject was thoroughly discussed, hav-
ing been preached in the address of DR..
Cooper, the retiring president, and the
sense of the meeting seemed to be that
such institutions were not to be en-
couraged.
DIR. Coopers address was the feature
of the evenings program. 1t was in
part as follows:
The work of the Association during
the past year until interrupted by the
outbreak of the plague, was of high
order, and the monthly meetings We're
well attended and productive of most
interesting papers and discussions, as
well as the promotion Of good fellow
ship by the good cheer which followed
our Iabors. Since December last, how
ever, but one regular meeting has been
held and there no quorum was present.
bonic plague, which made its appear
ance about the middle of December.
was one of the most disastrous exper-
fences through which the Islands have
passed. The position taken by some
| of the fraternity early in the history
Of the epidemic was undoubtedly hon
| est. Many physicians believed that the
crucial test should have been applied
before Honolulu was declared an in
fected port, and that their dissenting
opinions met with scant liberation at
the hands of those in authority.
With the changing of national and
political conditions we must expect new
peoples to come among US. Our frater-
nifty will be represented in this influx
of new citizens. 1t has already receiv-
ed some valuable additions. But we
must not expect to escape the ills which
| follow, also. We must prepare our
selves TO find among the good citizens
some of those characters whose meth
DDS meet with condemnation the world
| over. In view of this probable vista
ton, it might be well for us to turn
our eyes to the continued improvement
Of the laws governing the practice Of
medicine in this Territory. We must
not permit the fakir and the irregular
practitioner to gain a foothold If vigor-
Gus effort will prevent 1t. There are
already symptoms of the creeping in of
methods which are. to say the least,
unethical.
We have been appraised by publica-
ton in our daily papers of project on
foot for cheap medical service, the plan
being to open to the public at large
anyone paying a small monthly fee be-
ing admitted to the wholesale benefits
as advertised, not even emitting assist
lance from the hospital fund in the way
of funeral expenses. Railways, mining
companies and enterprises of such
hazard usually have their hospital fund
for the care of their employees, but a
general association of this character
wopld be rank injustice to the large
number of physicians here who are de-
pendent upon the general public for a
livelihood in their chosen calling. The
connection of hospital with the So
lciety hardly relieves 1t of it's irregular
aspect.
In Honolulu two questions are now
uppermost, the completion of the sew
erage and the. question of our water
supply. The work of extending the
sewerage system already inaugurated
and contemplating only the complete
drainage of the central portion of the
city was undertaken when the plague
situation impressed on all who gave
the subject thought the necessity OF
purifying the whole city. In the Gen.
trail portion of the city. the more dense
~ populated, the system of mains Is
duty TO see that there Is no decrease
in activity, that the work is pushed tc
a speedy completion, and the house
connections made at the earliest prac.
teal moment
There must be stop put to the use OF
Icesspools, and only when we know that
each house has it's sewer connections
complete and that there is no more the
old conditions, that the city does not lit
orally exist on the top of a mass OF
corruption, will we be satisfied that wt
have done what we could for the health
OF the city in this direction. Too mucf
stress cannot be laid on the constant
necessity for the supervision of the
sources of our water supply, and the
continued reaching out for pure water
With a purer water supply and s
good sewerage system there could no
be a recurrence of the present condi
tions, where we find constant increas,
or cases of fevers which are daily re
ported
AT the conclusion of DR.. Cooper's adj
dress the following were elected mem
bers of the Association
Drs. McConkey, Waterhouse Jobe
Burgess. Katsuki. Haida. Peterson
Murray, Condert and Mcdonald
The nominating committee present
ed the names of the following as Off
GERS for the ensuing year, and the,
We're elected: w, E. Taylor, president
n. =. Sioggett, vice president; A. G.
Hodgkins, secretary and treasurer: c
q. Cooper and r. B. Myers, members o
the executive committee
Dr. Sioggett gave notice that h
should move to amend the bylaws S
as to change the name or the Associa
ton from the Hawaiian Medical Asso
citation to the Medical Association @
the Territory of Hawaii
There were a number of ir,prompt
addresses. largely ha - ~,
proposed new cooperative hospita
= Among those who spoke were DIR. Tay
? Tor. DR.. W. II. Mays. formerly presi
dent of the San Francisco County So
ciety, DIR. Mcdonald, Dr. Garyin an
most of the new members.
Saturdays Orpheum.