The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-12-27
OFFICE REORGANIZATION
NUMEROUS CHANGES IN BOARD
OF HEALTH.
Policy of Retrenchment and Improve
ness at Meeting Yesterday.

The Board Of Health yesterday de-
clared that the following offices will be
vacant after January 1: City dispen-
sary, DR.. II. w. Howard; bacteriolOgist
DR.. Walter Hoffman, Act to Mitigate
DR.. r. =. Myers; veterinary, Dr. Mon
sarrat and DR.. Shaw. 1t is purposed to
combine the offices now held by DR..
Myers with the dispensary, giving two
men to the latter. In this way office and
visiting work may be more effectively
kept up. DR.. Hoffman will retire COM
pletely on account of not being an Anne
rican citizen. His successor will have
as an additional duty the instruction of
pupils in the schools on the subject of
tuberculosis Only one veterinary will
in future be employed He will be given
slight increase in salary.
The main purpose of this scheme is
economy and to get more work for the
governments money. In the dispen-
sary combine, even with two men in
place of one, there will be a saving of
$50 n month. In the veterinary depart
ment there will be a saving of $75 a
month.
Declaring the offices vacant does not
mean the actual discharge of the pre-
sent holders. 1t gives clean slate and
makes reorganization simple, an eXpe-
dent frequently resorted to in depart
ments of State governments. Some of
the retiring holders will probably be re-
appointed.
DR.. Raymond had written the de-
| partment of education asking it's CO.
operation in the work of instructing pu-
| pills of the city schools in the subject of
| tuberculosis The letter met with a
ready response from Superintendent
Atkinson who not only consented to
! help but added that he considered It a
great honor to assist such an important
work.
After some discussion it was decided
| to frame a bill prohibiting the sale of
methylated spirits, to be recommended
| to the legislature.
| David Dayton, for the Oahu Cemetery
Association applied for permission to
sell the remaining lots of the company
| in Nuuanu cemetery. 1t was decided to
adhere strictly to the rule which will
prevent the opening of new plots after
! January 1.
A. f. Judd appeared for c. Winam
| and protested against the enforcement
of an order condemning the land at
Aala as low morass that has become
very insanitary. Mr.. Judd states that
his client had given land for the extern
sion of Beretania street in return for
which the bureau of public works had
agreed to fiji up the pond. This agree
ment had not been fulfilled and the bu-
reau was therefore to blame for the con-
! dition of the place. Dr. Raymond
! thought that the district was a menace
! to the public health and unless It was
filled up the people should be compelled
! to leave the houses there This view
was accepted by the Board.
! In regard to the powers of the Board
to abate nuisances Attorney General
| Dole made a lengthy report, of which
the following is a part:
| Chapter 80 of the Penal Laws of 1897
provides that "The Board shall have
| general charge, oversight and care of
the public health may make
such regulations respectiun nusances
sources OF filth and causes Of sickness
with the respective districts of the Re
public (Territory), and on board any
vessel. as it shall judge necessary for
the public health and safety" Sections
S77 to SS5, inclusive, of the Penal Laws
| of 1897 authorize the abatement of null
! sanceS and provide the necessary pro-
cedure. Sections S43 to 952. inclusive.
provide for the Improvement of land
deleterious to the public health, author
ize the abatement of nuisances of this
class and provide the procedure for do
| ing so.