The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1901-03-06

lily history, and the questions of here
dity are facts absolutely unascertain-
able in 80 per cent of the people who
inmates our Asylum-a cosmopolitan
throng of unfortunates unknown to
anyone up to the day they come up to
claim public wardship on account of
their deplorable condition, many of
whom are unable to make themselves
understood in English.
Finally, the Grand Jury reports that
the system of records, the care of
patients, cleanliness of both wards
and cooking department, are all mat
ters which this Grand Jury can COM
mend as being we'll conducted at the
Asylum.
What is absolutely needed is:
O.-A new ward in place of the
present wards and 6;
(2).-Sanitary plumbing in closets
and sinks;
(3).-A cessation of the stone crush
er nuisance;
(4.-A wing addition to the wo-
mans ward, so that no two patients
need be confined together;
(5).-The automatic unlocking de-
vice for emergency use;
(6).-A tight 10-foot board on the
mauka side of the premises, with
12-foot picket fence on the other
boundaries.
All these suggestions are of course,
matters for the Legislature and the
Executive.
The Reformatory School has been
carefully investigated by the jurors,
all of whom naturally took lively in
terest in that institution. We disap-
prove as seriously as the Grand Jury
does of the whole menage, and ask the
Legislature to make a special note of
the part of the report which reads:
The Grand Jury disapprove of the
present system of committing boys to
the Reform School for trivial offences,
such as truancy, disobedience, ETC.,
where the comparatively innocent are
thrown among really bad characters.
We disapprove also of boys being
committed for short terms of ten days,
one month and similar short periods
this makes the Reform School Jail
for youthful miscreants which we be-
lieve is not the intention in a Reform
atory School, We believe that a tru-
ant school would be remedy for this
feature where boys sentenced for
short terms and trivial offences could
be held and disciplined for the period
of their sentence.
Oahu Prison is declared by the Grand
Jury to be in an excellent condition,
and the only fault to find N regard to
that institution was that the pictures,
in prison garb, of the men of 1895
were yet to be seen in the "Rogues'
Gallery" AS our Delegate to Washing
ton, Prince Cupid, Carl Widemann and
other prominent citizens had furnished
copy" for the exhibition, We can only
applaud the suggestion of the Grand
Jury to remove the pictures at once.
Some yellow" journalist or Wash
ington detective might arrive here and
spot" the fellows whose faces appear
among the "rogues," and it would be
bad for our Bob.
In regard to "Iwilei" the jury, after
making personal investigation, says:
a policeman is detailed by the High
Sheriff to preserve order within the
corral which is the extent of police
Supervision by the Board
of Health is confined to examinations
weekly by a medical man and segre-
cation of those who are found in an
condition-these latter are
required to go under treatment and to
suspend occupancy of the quarters at
Iwilei corral
This Jury have been unable to verify
that any Government officer or bureau
receive any fee, make charges of any
or issue licenses for prostitu-
ton, the published statements of vari
Gus parties to the contrary notwith-
The condition of the premises and |
of the place is, in the |
opinion of this Jury, as satisfactory
as it is possible for place of the kind |
to be-the location is much isolated |
and so far remote from the city that |
The evils of prostitution are now prob |