Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-04-07
/ Board Of Health Work
For the Week
Friday. March 6
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SSIg ACKNOWLEDGMENT GnO@TcOI1fOI guINF N0lS
Friday, March 6.
At a meeting of the Board OF Health
yesterday afternoon there were prcs-
ent the following: President Wood.
DR.. Day, F. J. Lowrey, Geo. W. Smith
+. NJ. Hatch. DIR. Emerson and Exccu-
tive Officer Garvin.
The meat supply for the leper settle
ment was brought up for discuss on
An effort will be made to use canned or
preserved meats In the plar" of fresh
meat at the settlement. The matter
was left in the hands OF the executive
officer.
DIR. Wood read a communication
from DR.. Hoffmann stating tina: the
death Of Frank Peroutka, suicide, was
in no way due to the plague.
A. v. Gear Of the Council OF State
was present at the meeting and, in re-
lation to the matter of a purchasing
agent for the Board of Health, stated
that the committee having the matter
in hand had consulted with DIR. Wood
and F. NJ. Hatch and that the question
had then been referred to w. r. Allen.
The Council had discussed the mat
ter but had arrived at no conclusion.
The opinion OF the Board of Health
was awaited. Mr.. Gear recommended
some good business man for the posi-
ton.
DR.. Wood read a communication
from the Minister OF the Interior stat
ing that the action Of the Executive
Council was favorable to allowing the
inmates of the drill shed camp to re-
main in their present quarters till May
/, 1900.
Petitions were then read from the
Hawaiians and Japanese at the Kalihl
detention camp asking to be allowed
to remain there. To send them away
would be to render them homeless.
Executive.
Next came the reading of the follow
ing letter from the finance committee
of the Board Of Health:
81 beg to report, III behalf OF your
Finance Committee, that five payrolls,
dated January 3lst, 1909, amounting to
s5,47i.S5, appear to have been paid by
warrants 100. 16l aud no, dated Feb
ruary 9Th. 1900, without having been
previously submitted TO this committee
for audit. The committee believes
these payrolls to be correct. but con-
siders IL important TO mention to you
this informality, which affords IN in
stance of the difficulty attending the
efforts of the committee to lay before
the Board accurate statements of thciE
expenditure in the suppression Of thl
bubonic plague, and 70 frame lOr them
estimates of probable relutrementB."
The request Of w. G. Peacock K Co
to make shipments of American bottled
beer packed in Honolulu to the ottcI
districts of the island, was granted.
DIR. Emerson, chairman of the COM
mittee of the Board On public morgue
reported that the committee recon-
mended that the Executive Council he
requested to ask the Council Of STATE
to appropriate $1,000 for the purpose
of erecting and maintaining mOrguc
The Board concluded to ask for $1,000
The committees report was accepted.
After the introduction of the follow
ing resolution by +. NJ, Hatch and the
adoption of the same, tho Board cd
journed:
Resolved, That in the opinion of tho
Board of Health, the Board having
visited and inspected the premises, all
that tract of land situated south oil
Oahu prison between the two roads
through lwilei and Kahololoa, com
monty covered by water and forming
a pond, Is deleterious 10 the public
health in consequence of being i'm
properly drained, ana that said pond
constitutes a nuisance, and Is source
Of filth and cause OF sickness. And
that the Board of Health recommend.
that said pond be filed to the grade OF
said roads, and that this resolution be
reported to the Minister Of the interior
President Dole reported to the Cabl'
net this morning the receipt OF n re-
port by the local medical faculty On
water filtration which had been adopt
ed by the Board of Health.
a letter was read from DR.. Woo
regarding the condition of cattle III
Kauai. and of mules at Olaa planta
ton, Hawaii, particulars being fur
nished in enclosures from DR.. Wang
hop and DR.. Eliot respectively. IN.
communications were referred TO til,
Government veterinary surgeon TO-
examination and report.
w
Steamship Co. gave a list of trir2 made
by the Lghua to MOlokai, Lanai GnC
Maui under the subsidy, and the mat
ter Of past bills for the service was LEI
TO the discretion Of the Minister OF II,
Interior.
W. !. Bali was grant al leave t
! change the location Of his liquor saloon
from Hahului to Wailuku. An appli
cation Of Loycjoy IL Co. to make th'
same move, under their liquor dealer
| license, was left to the Judgment Of tn
! Minister OF the Interior.
I Mr.. Young read a communication
from Vincent & Belsar Offering, undc
| certain conditions, 10 construct In
house lateral sewers from the propert,
, line to connect with the house plumb
ing. The Minister stated that he wOuI
confer with the plumbers on the mat
ter. 1t was left to his discretion by tn
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