The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-01-29
LOEBENSTE|N'S ANSWER.
REPLY TO PRESIDENT WOODS
LETTER.
Valves the Question of Title and Only
Asks that Authority be Given to do
Sanitary Work.

Representative Loebenstein of Hawaii |
will be in town several days yet as |
the Kilauea Hou will not leave until |
Wednesday or Thursday.
This morning Mr.. Loebenstein replied |
to President Wood. Following are the |
most important points in the very long
letter:
! Your answer Of this date to my prior
communication relative to health mat
ters entrusted to me by the Hawaii
committee is at hand.
In reply thereto 1 have again to urge
that whatever may be the title adopt
ed by the said committee, It's objects
and purposes remain identical will
! those sought to be established by the
! National Board and are in no sense tG
| be regarded as an effort to either su-
persede or usurp the functions legally
visited in the National Board.
Admitting the fact that your Citi-
zens' Sanitary Committee has render
ed valuable assistance to your Board
in the prevailing epidemic, under con-
ditions of easy reach and accessibilit'
it is safe to presume that still more
satisfactory results will be emphasized
in the delegation of authority to q
committee pledged to secure the fu
therance of every effort for the preser-
walton from disease of a large COM
munity remote from your jurisdiction.
The proceedings of the Hilo committee
in some instances may be interpreted
as conflicting with certain regulations
and instructions issued by your Board,
and as consequence have been repu-
dated by you-but they have had the
effect of allaying the apprehensions
and fears of an element on our island,
considerable in point of numbers and
difficult of control by reason of the area
covered.
Following is DR.. Woods letter:
Honolulu, H. l., January 27, 1900.
A. Loebenstein, Esq.
On Board Kilauea, Hou.
Dear Sir: Your communications
with relations to the proceedings of the
Citizens Committee at Hilo have been
received at the Board of Health office.
AS 1 understand the situation some
of the residents at Hilo have formed
themselves into a sanitray committee,
} which they have seen fit to designate
as the Board of Health of Hawaii.
OF course, this is misnomer, as there
is only one Board of Health for the
p Hawaiian Islands, provided for, as you
3 ore doubtless aware, by the Legisla-
2 ture, and consisting of seven members
? appointed and commissioned by Pres
ident Dole.
: This committee of citizens requests
I through you, their representative that
they be authorized by the Board OF
Health, to act as a Health Board for
{ the Island of Hawaii
y You have forwarded set of resolu-
- tiOns adopted by the committee which
- you represent, and 1 presume that yoI
: wish authority from the Board Of
Health to enforce these resolutions.
8 You also ask for authority to ordel
: postmorten examinations in all cases
v where death has occurred and no ply
: sician has been In attendance. In re
e lation to the latter request 1 beg to In
C form you that such authority is al
e ready vested in the Sheriff of Hawai-
:. who is also the coroner.
10 In reply to the other request, II is m,
5, duty to inform you that after persusa
r, of the resolutions and other proceed
l. ings of the Hilo Committee 1 find tina
= the resolutions are in most instances II
II direct conflict with regulations adopte,
IL by the Board of Health, and conse
s. cannot be authorized by the Board.
n The Idea of the Citizens Santar,
Committee for the Island of Hawai-
e. is an excellent one. The Citizens SAM
y. tary Committee of Honolulu has bee
N an immense help to the Board o
H. Health in the prevailing epidemic
&c Any representative committee chose
- Dy the people or Hawaii, willing to as
~ % sist the Board of Health in carryln
- out its regulations and other measure
adopted to prevent the spread of tn
. plague with the greatest degree of Ger
tainty, and at the same time with tn
&c least hardship and distress to the peo
w pie, will be recognized by the Boar
m and commissions as agents of the Boar
= offs Health will be forwarded to it
members
Regarding the request for funds:
money is needed for any specific pur
1t pose, the Board will be gla to forwar
er the application TO the Executive Coun
1t ell for presentation to the Council o
he State.
1t Very respectfully yours,
c. b. WOOD,
President BOARD of Health