The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-03-07
BOARD OF HEALTH MEETING.
Reward of 800 offered for Every
Case of Plague Reported.


The Board of Health met as usual
yesterday afternoon. President Wood,
DR.. Emerson and Messrs. Smith,
Hatch and Lowrey were present.
DR.. Wood: Il attended a meeting of
the Citizens Sanitary Committee yes
terday afternoon, when they passed a
resolution 70 continue the work Of in
spectiOn for at least two weeks longer
In the meanwhile / have already start
ed the organization Of = corps OF paid
inspectors. The Sanitary Committees
inspectors and suh-inspectors will as
sist the new men in every way to be-
come acquainted with the conditions
existing in the various districts which
will come under their control AR.
Towse will have charge Of thirty pick
ed men who will be paid good salaries;
they viii work all day and cover the
whole city in their work of sanitary
inspection.
ut is Mr.. Towse's idea that we start
right in with a good force of men. 1t
is better to have thirty capable men,
who are receiving good wages and who
will do better work, than fifty men re-
ceiving a small remuneration. The in
spectiOn will prove more efficient
where there is more apparent reward.
Many Of the volunteer sub-inspectors
( became discouraged because they fail
ed TO discover any cases of plague in
their apanas and turned their energy
and attention 70 discovering and re-
porting insanitary conditions and vio-
latiOns of the regulations Of the Board
of Health.
Now. if the Board of Health would
offer a good reward for the discovery
of genuine cases of plague, the work
! of inspection would be keener and the
inspectors would naturally become
more thorough in their work. l would
suggest that a reward of 800 be Of
fsred by the Board to the individual
who reports to this body a genuine
case Of plague in Honolulu. / consider
thai this mode of action would prove a
paying investment to the Board.
a hundred dollars spent in this way
would save the Board perhaps thou
sands OF dollars in the end. Then the
plague cases would be reported carly.
| There are cases now going TO be found
/ at different times in widely separated
places; sporadic cases which will still
continue TO crop up notwithstanding
the fact that the plague situation IS
practically under our control"
| Mr.. Hatch: This reward ought not
to extend to paid officers Of the Board;
/ physicians. for instance"
| DR.. Wood: 'No. not TO physicians;
\ but otherwise I think IL might be well
to make it a sweeping offer, so that
/ anybody and everybody would have
/ the chance TO earn the 800. In this
way the results would prove more sat
| isfactory."
Mr.. Hatch: L move that a reward
Of 500 be offered to anybody not a paid
emplOye Of the Board of Health, who
reports a genuine case Of plague
| Mr.. LOwrey: Wouldn't $40 do JUS
as well as S10O?"
DR.. Wood: Il don't think reward
OF SO would be any good at all; ]
want to make It q temptation, and SO
is not much of a temptation
Mr.. Smith: Perhaps the Chinese
will now be induced TO reveal any
/ plague cases which occur among
them"
DR.. Emerson here seconded Mr.
Hatch's motion. Carried.
Mr.. LowTey: Would this reward
apply to the other islands,"
/ Mr.. Hatch: Il should think J;
should apply to Honolulu only
Wants Lady Inspectors.
Mr.. Smith: 4 have received a letter
from Mr.. King, inspector for one oil