The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-15
WHAT OF
TARO?
EIeaIthBoardCan't
Get Enough
Of Paiai.
PLAGUE BILLS
ONCE AGAIN
Some Unsettled Accounts Rise Up
Like Banquo's Ghost Before
the PIague.Fishters.

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Health is anxious to get guam
tity of taro for use at the leper
settlement and will entertain bids from
any and all the Islands. The taro must
be good and palatable, as the board
has already had an expensive set-to
with bad taro furnished by Honolulu
dealer.
At Yesterdays session of the board
the old, old story relative TO the supply
and demand was discussed at length.
Executive officer Pratt of the board
stated that tenders for paiai had been
advertised on March is, but no one had
put in any bids. In fact he found there
was really. no taro on the market, and
what little there was the dealers were
not disposed to sell except for ready
cash.
Superintendent Reynolds of the leper
settlement was questioned as to the
supply of tago at the settlement. He
said he had of late issued about one.
half the usual ration of poi and had
supplied flour instead Within month
he expects to renew the full ration of
poi from the Molokai valley taro.
President Raymond was Of the opin-
ion that the Board should make every
effort in it's power to procure the neces-
sary food supplies for the persons held
at the leper settlement, as it was their
due to be fed properly. If taro was
not to be obtained, then a substitute
should be furnished. He said that sweet
potatoes were an excellent substitute.
Dr. Emerson said the prevailing prac-
tice in Honolulu during short sea-
son for taro was to substitute flour.
Mixed with water and salt and boiled
until 1t became q solid pudding and
then pounded out and, treated the same
as paiai, 1t was reduced to the consist
ency of paste and ready for eating.
He said it was. naturally. not quite as
palatable to the Hawaiians as poi, but
lit was the very best substitute at
Ipresent known.
A motion presented by Mr.. Lowrey
that the superintendent make every eff
fort possible to secure taro or the best
substitute was passed unanimously.
A few tag-end bills of the bubonic
plague days confronted the members
of the board. They amounted to good
ly sum, but as there was no fund to
draw upon at the present time for their
payment, 1t was suggested that they be
minder that the Board of Health would
be greatly obliged If the solons would
see to 1t that they were paid.
Attorney Chillingworth appeared be-
fore the board on behalf of the Oahu
Lumber Company, and also Mr.. Board
man, whose residence was burned by
order of the Board of Health last year
after the death therein of Mrs. Board
10 al 10
Building Association made a claim for
money alleged to be due them for the
building of a storehouse upon the or
ders of the board in which to put GER
tain of the Boardman household effects
which were fumigated and saved from
destruction. This consisted of china
ware and such effects as would not
carry the plague. The storehouse was
erected and the association looked to
the board for payment. Mr.. Boardman
declined to be responsible for it, as he
was In quarantine when his residence
was destroyed. He was out his insur-
ance money on the house, the insurance
company declining to make restitution.
He now wants the board to remove the
structure from his premises, claiming
that it does not belong to him, but to
the Board of Health. Mr. Boardman
baC empha tically seated to his attor-
ney that he would not pay the bill, as
he was in no way responsible for any
Ldrt of it. Upon the motion of Mr..
LoWrey the matter was referred to At
torney General Dole for an opinion as
to the boards liability in the matter.
A petition signed by large numbe.
of the inmates of the leper settlement
was presented to the board from Ks-
aoao, chairman of the committee ap-
pointed. The petitioners requested that
j. K. Waiamau be selected as the new
superintendent of the settlement to
succeed c. b. Reynolds, resigned. The
petitioners stated that Mr.. Waiamau
was not leper. The matter will be
taken up at later meeting of the
board
The application of Mrs. Luhia Lui
Hoolapa to be allowed to go to the lener
settlement as a kokua, or helper to her
i*per husband, was granted by the
= trd yesterday upon the report receiy-
. by DR.. Oliver, medical superintend-
GIL 1T the settlement. Mrs. Hoolapa is
the "9man who resorted to deception
by p hitting her body with iodine in or
der To make the physicians at the Ka-
lihi receiving station believe that she
was afflicted with leprosy and by this
means lie sent to the settlement where
she could meet her husband.
commission was issued to Dr.
Monsarrat as inspector of meats in ac-
with the resolution passed
some weeks ago by the board appoint
ing him to that position.
j. b. Anterior requested that the
board allow him to reopen relief camp
No. ~ Kaulewela. The executive Of
fcer rad several reports which had
been s2ae upon the premises and the
board Owed that before taking any
action ire members should visit the
much-talked-of camp in a body. 1t was
that the visit will take place