The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-07-24
BOARD Of HEALTH At
THE LEPER SETTLEMENT


H UHE nTd other WORK un percentage
which yields tHrm about The same About
twenty -u1t men ufe employed. There
urg 81 - principal kinds Of taro plated
Tlrfr are the nuhu. puia-l. lpu-o-lYnp,
hH'ukoa. pil-alii ana ka-L a considerable
l0t ls the royal variety. making pink poi
Recently Mr.. Baldwin gave the Home am
outr, new cooking OUTFIT Of tho latest pat
tern OF course the arrangements for
steamlrF the poi are on large scale, and
Brother Dutton says that Mr.. Baldwin &
GIT is highly appreciated. The new wa
ter system affords bountiful supply and
has facilitated the growing OF crops Inn
mensoly.
In the hospital Of tho Baldwin Home
are eight very bad patients, several Of
whom are blind ana all OF whom are to-
tally helpless. The minstratons OF these
brothers to these stricken men Is emo
bling to learn about. They wash their
bodies and dress them daily and all for
nothing but their sense OF duty and Ic-
yotlon to the life they have chosen. one
finds no morbidness among these heroes
their day are too fun of labor for augnt
but hope and perhaps n more real hap
pinesS than Is known by more selfish
persons.
The Board of Health was much graf
flied at the progress Of the agricultural
Brother Dutton to attempt variety
of products. There seems no reason
why the colony should not grow every
thing needful except such eatabes as
Hawaiian sol ldoes not produce.
Along the road from Kalawao to Ka-
laupapa were dozens of cottages,
many of them tastefully furnished in
native style and surrounded by trees
and arbors. flowers and vegetable gar
dens. year ago w. o. Smith Of
fered a set Of prizes for the greatest
Improvement in the appearance of pri-
vate premises. The prizes were award
ed in April last and the incentive made
remarkable change in the appearance
of most of the homes The stones
were cleared away, grass planted, wa
tered anu cut, flowers planted, trees set
out and houses painted and cleaned.
The prizes were $25 for the best, 500,
SIS, $40 and IS for others. A prize con-
test for results in tree planting, known
as the Press Prize, will be decided I'm
October. The prizes are $50. $40. $50, 800
and $10-s150 in all. There was a slight
dissatisfaction over the first awards
and new set of prizes to be given in
the summer of 1901 will be for tree
planting and improvement of premises
together. The prizes will be 500, SIS, $40
and S5 a committee of three to look
after the matter Will be appointed
soon.
SIGHTS AND SCENES.
Returning from Kalawao to Kalau-
papa. the Board of Health spent sever
nj hours in discussion Of the points OBJ
served. The Board was entertained at
the residence of G. Il. Reynolds. who is
the superintendent of the settlement
Mr.. Reynolds Is not much of talker
but an excellent worker. He has the
figures and facts of the colony's history
"a N Int SO. at Its H,,a, L.
and his capabilities are conclusively
proven by the manner in which the
place is conducted.
Its progress has been gradual, but
each year finds new additions and aids
to comfort and convenience. Mr. Rey-
nolds spends half his time at the settle
mcnt and comes and goes every fort
night Ii is to him that the Board
looks for its knowledge of the colony.
Mr.. Reynolds says that there were
eight or more marriages recently and
that courtship and weddings follow on
Molokai as in Honolulu. AS is well |
known, all children born are, as soon |
rs possible, brought to the hapiolani
Home in Honolulu, and, as Is also well /
known, they seldom develop leprosy. A |
baby of six months was brought here
when the Board came back Saturday
light. In one of the bishop Home cot
ages We're twins of ten months, whose
mother, leper, was rejoicing in the
'isit of the father, who lives here. The
babies We're handsome and laughing.
Ihey Will not be allowed to remain with
heir mother much longer, Their moth
~ laNished her affection on their
mouths alternately with their father or
ather and mother openly embraced
'ach other for minutes at II time
some Of the little groups who spent
he day in the cottages or gardens ate
openly out of the same dishes, the visit
wives, parents or cnu-
ren of the leper COlonists-dipping into
he poi bowls with no thought of dan
er.
HAVE NO FEAR.
Old Kopena, who has had three leper
lives, and who after Lurying two, is
ow happy with the third, was glad to
ell of himself. He has been for years .
n the Island sad is not q leper, though ,
1 the closest contact hourly. He takes
o precautions and his one grief is that
c has no children. Long ago he came
> the settlement 40 care for his wife, I
nd then another at her death. He ,
ould take 1t i'll If driven away.
William Mil of Honolulu was VISIT
IL his children-three of whom are at
one is in n desperate condi-
on. The father, who has two clean ,
lildren here, tenderly embraced his
I've branches as he told of his sorrow
their condition Their mother is
FAD.
The question of the lcpers voting was
'ken up Their ballots win be cast at Il
he settlement in the usual way and
Ill be fumigated here in a hot-air i
lamber before being checked up by @
ne electoral registrar. 1t is stated 4
nat 2iO degrees Fahrenheit destroys
ny possible germ. So with the postof-
re question. United States Postal a
gent Flint who has the matter I'm u
and, investigated II thoroughly and d
I'D that he would recommend no Il
ranges in the postotiice at the settle d
ent other than that no stamps be used n
nd stamped envelopes only handled. "
he mail viii ue fumigated here and n,
oncy orders Issued there viii 20 =,
rough tho same process Only coin nj
III be handled and all win ne boiled
re. .
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