The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-03-30
HEALTH BOARD.
President Wood Will
Resign.
FINANCE Committee Asked 20 Con-
tiHus Que Months, rum
Very Scarce.

The Board OF Health met yesterday
afternoon at $3.50 O'Clock. President
Wood. DR.. gay, DR.. Emerson and Mes
srB. Smith, Hatch and Lowrey were
present. After the reading of the min
utes Of the previous meeting DR.. Wood
called for special committee reports.
Dr, Emerson, chairman Of the COM
nittee for considering plans for pub
lie morgue, reported progress and ask
cd for more time in which TO accom-
plish the work.
The following bills were then sub
nitted by the President for the consid-
GRAFTON of the Board:
March 20--John Ouderkirk, to expert
services, surveying and apprdislng
buildings condemned by the Board OF
Heath. Tire or service from Dec. 81,
1899, to March 20, 1900. 800.
j.. j. Wilhelm and G. Is. Ripley, for
similar services for same period, 500
each.
Robertson & Wilder, to professional
services to date, $500.
It was the general sense Of the meet
Ing that the above bias were in every
way allowable; that the appraisers had
done work for the Board OF Heath
that was invaluable and which would
in the end save a great amount OF
money. IL was understood that over
800 appraisements had been made dur
ing the period noted in the accounts,
and that in many cases properties mad
been appraised for amounts remark
ably less than the figures placed on the
structures by their owners. The bills
were approved, therefore, by the Board.
Blsnop Estate Asks for Firs.
Mr.. Dodge, representing the Bishop
Estate, was in attendance at yester-
days gathering OF the Health Board.
He asked that certain buildings in Ka-
kaako belonging to the Estate, situat-
ed near che lodging house from which
a recent victim OF the plague was TAX
ell, and not far from other places where
plague had occurred, be destroyed by
fire by order of the Board of Health.
DIR. Wood thought that the buildings
should be burned on suspicion, as they
were In a very bad condition and dan
gerous TO the pubic health. The Oner
OF the Bishop Estate was accepted and
the buildings ordered burned.
Tdbercular Be f.
A letter from VIM. G.. Irwin & Co.,
dated March %, was read. The COM
munication stated that under date of
the 10Th instant George X. Ewart of
the Kiauea Plantation Co. had written
them as follows:
81 forgol 20 mention that something
ought to be done at Hanalei about the
cattle disease they have there. From
accounts we hear of II, we judge 1t Is
pleuro-pneumonia, and III that is So the
authorizes ought TO act in the matter.
Ii has been known, and the Board OF
Health has known Ii too, that they
have had ii at Lihue, and on the other
side Oh the Island. ! shall do my best
to keep our stock clear, but as you
know " Is a terfIDIe disease, and o.4e
that the Government ought to take In
hand
After reading the foregoing DR.. Wood
remarked that tuberculosis was prop
ably wnat WAS meant in reference to
diseased cattle. The matter, together
with the letter from DR.. WaughOp or
December 3, 1893, concerning the dis
eased condition of cattle on Kauai.
was referred to the Minister of the In
terror.
sanitary Officers Report.
DR.. J. S. B. Pratt, city sanitary off,
Ger, reported in writing to the Board
concerning certain lean-tos and addi-
lions which have been erected in back
yards OF property on Nuuanu. Hotel
and Smith streets. The report went
into details concerning numerous viola
lions OF the sanitary regulations and
concluded as follows:
"A number Oh these yards are becom-
, ing Uttered up with boxes and retuse,
and are fast getting back to the way
Chinatown looked before the fire. some
yards were damp and wet, partly from
the rain OF last night, but more from
the dish and wash water thrown wher-
ever II was handIest to do so. As II
does not seem possible TO educate tnsse
people to put their refuse water In
proper place. 1t seems almost necessary
TO pass a regulation compelling the ce-
menting OF back yards where they are
exposed to the weather and the throw
Ing OF dirty water and refuse by the
tenants. A regulation like this would
ro a great way towards keeping what
"a left of Chinatown in a sanitary con-
sition."
Prophylactic Short.
DIR. Wood reported that the plague
prophylactic was running short and
that a strict check would have to be
kept on all those who took the serum,
especially the Japanese, as there was
strong probability OF certificates OF In
lection being exchanged or sold. There
was a possibility OF Japanese who went
60 the other Islands sending back their
certificates OF injection to their friends,
10 be used over again. To guard against
this the pursers OF the steamships
would be re quired 70 punch all eertln-
Gates.
DIR. Wood complained that the bills
of health brought by ships from San
Francisco. Issued by the Hawaiian Con-
sul, made no mention OF plague in san
Francisco. 1t was decided by the
Board that the Minister OF Foreign AZ
fairs be requested to give emphatic in