The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-01-17
WILDER KEEPS Contract
WILL CONTINUE TO ACT AS THE
CARRIER TO MOLOKAI.
Interments May be Made in Moanalua
Cemetery-Special Notices to be
Printed for Hawaii by Health Board

The efforts of Superintendent Rey-
nolds of the leper settlement, to have
the freightng business connected with
that place taken away from the Wilder
Steamship Company, ended in defeat
yesterday at the meeting of the Board
of Health. Bids for carrying freight
and passengers between here and the
leper settlement were opened. The
Wilder comuan- offred to do it at their
old rate at about $S03 a month while the
bid of the Hawaiian Navigation Com
pany was few dollars lower.
DR.. Cooper remarked, after the bids
had been opened, that as the amount
which would be saved to the Board of
Health, would be small there would be
no necessity for changing, so the mat
ter was tabled.
A communication inquring whether
people could not make interments in
Moanalua cemetery as formerly was
received from S. NJ. Damon. For many
years the natives have been burying
their dead on the hill on Mr. Damon's
estate but recent resolution by the
Board of Health declared it illegal to
bury any one within certain limits, ex-
cept in regular plots. Attorney General
Dole said that the matter to be consi-
dered by the Board was whether the
burying a that place endangered the
public health. If it did not the Board
had no right to Interfere. In the OPT
Mon of George w. Smith the Board had
no right to interfere with burials there.
The matter was deferred unail a list of
plot holders could be obtained.
The following communication from
Dr. Archer Irwin, government physi-
clan for the North Hilo district was
read:
'Hakalau, Hawaii, January II.
The President Board of Health.
Dear Sir: Your letetr of instructions
concerning new duties of Government
physician has been received. In reply |
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
following its infraction. 7 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 on them should the penalty
of the law of which they are ignorant
and which hitheto has never been en-
forced, be visited upon them"
Executive Officer Pratt said that al
ready notices in Hawaiian, Chinese,
Portuguese and japanese had been or
dered printed.
resolution passed at the previous
meeting forbdding the erection of any
building in the district bounded by
Nuuanu River, Beretana and Kukui
streets was amended so that permits
could be granted when the lots in that
section were filled up and the erection
of buildings would not endanger the
public health.
The quarterly report of DR.. Richard
OllNer, medical superintendent of the
leper settlement on Molokai was read
There were 40 deaths, including non
lepers. The malarial fever epidemic is
subsiding. There were two fatalities
from this disease.