The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-01-18
The Wilder Company
Keeps Contract
TO CARRY lEPiR FREIGHT
R sends Per mpto'y R solution
Wnh Regard ~ China
tow Lane.

Wilder's Steamship Company will
continue to carry freight and passen-
gers to and from the leper settlement
on Molokai as in the past. After big
hullaballoo about the poor service of
the Wilder company, in which Super
intendent Reynolds of the leper settle
ment was the chief instigator the
Board of Health asked for bids from
transportation companies and yester-
day two tenders were opened and read
at the meeting of the Board. One was
from the Wilder company offering to go
on with their service at the same rate
as in the past or about $500 a MONTH
and another bid was from the Hawaii
an Navigation Company which cut I'M
der the figures of the Wilder company
a 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 will go on as usual.
A communication was received from
s. NJ. 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 a recent resolution
of the Board of Health declared 1t IL
legal to bury any one within certain
limits except in regular plots. DIR. 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
whether 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, a member of the
Board, said the Board could not stop
any one burying body in the Moana-
lua cemetery and therefore it was USE
less to forbid 1t. The matter was de-
ferred until list of the plot holders
be obtained, which shelves 1t entirely.
The following was the report of DR..
Richard Oliver, medical superintendent
of the leper settlement on Molokai:
1 herewith forward to you my report
for the quarter ending December 3d. 1870.
In the previous quarter we had cases
and l death from malarial fever. In the
last quarter there were % cases of the
same fever and deaths. For the last 2
months this fever has been confined to
Kalaupapa, which Is unusual. Kalawao
generally taking the lead In the number
of these cases. The popularity of this
fever, which 1 am glad to say seems
now to have left us, was it's tendency to
relapse. The two fatal cases were of re-
lapse. Apart from the epidemic, the gen.
eral state of health of the settlement
has been fair There have been during
the 3 months, 6 births. males and fe-
males, and we have had, including those
of non-lepers, 40 deaths
The bathing establishment has been
running as usual. The attendance of
lepers at the two dispensaries has aver
aged "a per diem. And the number of
visits paid to homes of lepers has aver
aged 16 daily.
The following letter was read:
Hakalau, Hawaii, January II.
The President Board of Health.
Dear Sir: Your letter of instruction |
new duties of Government
physician has been received. In reply l
wish to ask the Board to adopt some
measures whereby the general public /!
may be informed of the law concerning
registration of deaths, births and mar
riages, and more especially the penalty
fonowing its infraction. | would sug-
gest the printing of notices in the va
rious languages of our polyglot commu-
nifty and have them sent to the deputy |
sheriff of each district with instructions
to post them in conspicuous places.
Unless some such measures are adopted
the community. especially the Oriental
part of it, will go on dying and being |
born in the same old informal manner.
and it would work more or less harshly |
chr thn ltNr of tha lax
of which they are ignorant and which |
hitherto has never been enforced, be Wis
tied upon them.
ARCHER IRWIN.
Government Physician for North Hilo
District.
Executive officer Pratt said that he /
had already ordered such notices print |
ed in Hawaiian, Portuguese, Chinese ,
and Japanese.
A resolution passed some weeks ago /
the erection of buildings !
on the land bounded by Beretania, Nuu-
anu. River and Kukui streets was
amended to read as follows:
Whereas, a large portion of that dis
trict or parcel OF land situate In Homo
lulu, Island of oahu. bounded by Bere-
iania Nuuanu. Kukui and River streets,
Is deleterious TO the public health In con-
sequence OF being low and at times COW
cred or partially covered with water and
AZ all times improperly drained and In
capable OF effectual drainage and Is In
and dangerous TO the public
health, therefore be II
Resolved, That no permit for any build
ing 10 be erected In said area shall be
recommended untll the lot upon which
said building is 10 be erected shall be so
illed up, II necessary, that the same,
With the building to be erected thereon.
Sil not endanger the public health,
The following was the report OF the
inspectors ] beg leave TO sub
nit my seml,mon,hly report, ending jan
larry 18th. 1901, which IL as follovsi
Number OF plans hled. 90,
Number of permits issued, CO.
Number ~ Inspections made, rs,