The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-17
| The BOARD
Of HEAL I'll
The Wilder Company
Keeps Contract.
TO CARRY LEP[R FREIGHT
Rescinds Peremptory Resolution
With Regard To China
town Land.

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lgers to and from the leper settlement
on Molokai as in the past After BIZ
lhullaballoo about the poor service q
the Wilder company. in which Super
lintendent Reynolds of the. leper settle
ment was the chief instieator TN
Board of Health asked for bids from
transportation companies and yester
Iday two tenders were opened and rea,
at the meeting of the Board. One wa.
! from the Wilder company Offering to p,
ON with their service at the same rate
as IN the past, or about 1903 month
and another bid was from the Hawaii
an Navigation Company, which cut un.
Ider the figures of the Wilder company
Ia few dollars.
When the bids were read yesterday
DR.. Cooper remarked that as there
would be but a trifling saving there
would be no purpose in making a
change. The matter was laid on the
table. which means that the Wilder
company viii go on as usual
A communication was received from
5. M. Damon asking that the Hawaii
an residents of Moanalua be allowed
to bury their dead there as in the past.
For many years the natives have been
interring their dead on a hill on Mr..
Damon's estate but recent resolution
of the Board of Health declared it IL
legal to bury any one within certain
limits except in regular plots. DR.. Pratt
told the Board that there were no regu-
lar plot holders in the Moanalua grave
yard and that the place was about 100
feet from the road.
Attorney General Dole said that the
Board must consider the question
burying there endangered the
public health. If it did not the Board
had no right to interfere. Dole said
the Board could not make regulations
in excess of it's power.
George w. Smith, member of the
Board, said the Board could not stop
any one burying a body in the Moana-
lua cemetery and therefore it was use
less to forbid it. The matter was de-
ferred until a list of the plot holders
be obtained, which shelves it entirely.
The following was the report of DR..
Oliver. medical superintendent
I herewith forward to you my report
FOR the quarter ending December 81, $780,
In the previous quarter we had cases
and death from malarial fever. In the
asst quarter there were % cases of the
same fever and deaths. For the last 2
months this fever has been confined to
which is unusual, Kalawao
taking the lead in the number
If these cases. The popularity of this
fever, which I am glad to say seems
how to have left us, was it's tendency to
'elapse. The two fatal cases were of re-
apse. Apart from the epidemic, the gen.
raj state of health of the settlement
las been fair. There have been during
he months, births, males and 2 fe-
males, and we have had, including those
If non-lepers, 40 deaths.
The bathing establishment has been
as usual. The attendance of
epers at the two dispensaries has aver
lged "a per diem. And the number of
lists paid to homes of lepers has aver
ged 16 daily.
The following letter was read:
Hakalau, Hawaii, January H.
The President Board of Health
Dear Sir: Your letter of instruction
oncerning new duties of Government
MUSICIAN has been received. In reply
wish to ask the Board to adopt some
measures whereby the general public
lay be informed of the law concerning
egistration of deaths, births and mar
lagos, and more especially the penalty
Glowing : its infraction. l would sug-
est the printing of notices in the va
lous languages of our polyglot> commu-
ity and have them sent to the deputy
heriff of each district with instructions
} post them in conspicuous places
ar nd cd
ne community, especially the Oriental
art of it, will go on dying and being |
orn in the same old informal manner |
nd it would work more or less harshly I
n them should the penalty of the law, |
which they are ignorant and which
ltherto has never been enforced, be Wis
ed upon them.
ARCHER IRWIN,
overnment Physician for North Hilo
District.
Executive Officer Pratt said that he
ad already ordered such notices print
in Hawaiian, Portuguese, Chinese
Id Japanese.
A resolution passed some weeks ago
sallowing the erection of buildings
| the land bounded by Beretania, Nuu
III, River and Kukai streets was
nended to read as follows:
Whereas, a large portion of that dis
let or parcel of land situate in Homo
lu, Island of Oahu, bounded by Bere-
MA Nuuanu, Kukui and River streets,
-deleterious to the public health in con-
quence of being low and at times COW
ed or partially covered with water and
all times Improperly drained and in r
pable Of effectual drainage and is in
nitary and dangerous to the public !,
alth; therefore be it
Resolved, That no permit for any build 5
3 to be erected in. said area shall be
commended until the lot upon which
i'd building is to be erected shall be so
ed up, if necessary, that the same, r
tn the building to be erected thereon,
Il not endanger the public health
The following was the report of the
imbing inspector: / beg leave to SUBJ
t my semi-monthly report, ending jan
ry 18th, 1901, which is as follows:
Number of plans filed, co.
Number of permits issued, so.
Number of inspections made, u.s.
Number of final certificates, 49,
Number of sewer connections, II. Il
he only plan refused was one on ac-
ant of party being unable to do the
rk properly.