The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-02-05
A LOST CAUSE.
Hilo's Health Board"
Suspends.
Committee Realizes Its Existence is
Preposterous' Charge Cooper
With Breaking Promises.

Sheriff Andrews, under date of Jan
uary 2Sth, advises the Board of Health
that upon his return to Hilo after a
few days absence he found a case of
suspected plague had been reported by
Drs. Grace and Moore, and the latter
had placed the premises and the man
supposed to be infected under ouaran-
tine. The sheriff also added as a pre-
cautionary measure wire net fence
surrounding the place. The next morn
ing both physicians agreed that the
suspect was merely suffering from a
Venereal disease, and the quarantine
was raised. The wire fence was taken
Dack 10 headquarters to await further
developments.
by the same mail DR.. Grace informs
the Board of Health that the Health
committee OF the Island of Hawaii has
suspended its deliberations until such
time as it is vested with executive au-
thorlty, it having been brought home
to the committee by the unauthorized
landing of mails at various ports on
this Island that such authority is lack
ing"
boards" Racy Last Meeting.
The minutes of the last Hilo Board
meeting form a racy narrative of its
dying moments. DR.. Russell stated he
had interviewed nearly all the bust
ness men in town and was in a posi-
ton to state that the business men es-
peclally had very little confidence in
the Board on account of it's inconsist
ency, and had strong statements from
people that if the Board did not resign
they would be made to resign in a con-
pie of days.
Mr.. Kennedy said the sheriff has to
do as the authorities in Honolulu tell
him.
DR.. Grace: eve have no executive
officer attached to the Board"
DR.. Russell: "Then our existence is
preposterous."
DR.. Grace said he had communicated
with one of the Kau delegates. who
SAID he was in favor of limited quar-
antlne, and was going to allow the
mail from the Iwalani to be landed,
and they did not care d-n what the
people in Hilo did. He would abandon
the whole thing if people elsewhere on
the Island could neutralize the efforts
of the Board in that way.
Sheriff Andrews arrived at this iunc-
ture and said, in reply to a question
from DR.. Russell as to why Minister
Cooper had broken faith with the
Board and allowed things to come
up which should not:
Il did not hear Mr.. Cooper at anv
time commit himself in any way that
he would not allow things to come I'D:
he stated that he had no authority to
give any one or any committee on the
Island of Hawaii authority which
would be equal to or paramount with
the Board of Health in Honolulu; he
stated II all the Island wanted to have
communication cut off, he had no doubt
the Board of Health would accede to
their wishes. He also told me | was
sheriff of this Island and was under
the instructions of the authorities in
Honolulu, and that this Board had no
legal standing until they had commits
sions. l will carry out the orders of
Iu'o OOaAu VI AedlIu uuIlI Lney con-
flct with the existing law. AS soon as
this Board has commissions then I
carry out whatever orders this Board
makes"
After further discussion DR.. Russell
moved:
THAT this Board suspend it's DELHI
erations until an executive power is
attached to it,"
Proceedings here terminated"
q The Board of Health has gladly ac-
quiesced in the last paragraph of the
minutes, and Hilo's Board of Health"
is pau.