The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-10-11
BOARD READY FOR BOYD
WILL TACKLE HIM wHEN THE
1ttNAr COMES.
Must Cease Operations
nor Dole Takes Hand.

The first thing Jimmie" Boyd Will
find awaiting his attention when he
steps ashore from the kinau tomorrow
viii be the matter of the rock-crusher
at the asylum for insane. which was
about the last thing that demanded his
attention when he left "A month ago
for Hawaii. At that time Boyd said
that the crusher would keep on any
how. Since then the Board OF Health
has been busy, and now II is ready for
Boyd with plenty of new material.
Governor Dole has visited the asylum
and is said TO have been much Impress
ed with the distracting noises that
assail the ears of the crazy people. He
will have a conference with Boyd and
the Board tomorrow.
Yesterday afternoon the Board of
Health held a special meeting and
adopted a letter to send to Boyd. With
IL were enclosed opinions of Drs Wood,
Herbert. Walters, Master and Mays to
the effect that the noises We're very bad
/ for the patients. The letter contains
/ the following:
The sole question in issue is raised
by the resumption of operation at the
crusher by your department. Are the
opera tious of the crusher and quarry Of
such a nature as to be deleterious to
the health and welfare of the patients
at the Insane Asylum?
a
are in operation this question is in Sc
rious issue. The Board feel that the
lease Of the inmates of the Asylum is
A public trust of a delicate nature, re-
Iuuiring constant vigilance and unusual
Icare and one i'm which the public ana
the government are deeply Interested
and concerned through natural feeling
of sympathy and charity toward the
unfortunate condition of the inmates
Of this institution.
"The Board therefore are convinced
that anything which is deleteriOus to
their welfare should receive immediate
Iattention.
The crusher, as you are aware, is
situated but about so yards from the
wards on the mauka side of the Asylum
grounds. The noise from it in opera
ton is therefore constant and loud
The same is true only more 50 of the
blasts which in this kind of work are
usually very heavy Flying stones oc-
casionally of large size fail in consid-
cradle number within the Asylum
walls. The conclusion from the blasts
has broken the windows in ward and
so shaken the foundation of the same
building that constant care has to be
exercised to keep the building, doors,
and apparatus in condition and repair
The roofs of the buildings have also
suffered, and i'm February last large
stone went through the roof of ward
6.
when a blast is about to be fired
whistle is blown at the quarry and the
inmates of the Asylum are Immediately
hurried away to another part OF the
ground to a place of less danger.
The Board are of the unanimous
opinion that the noise of the crusher
lis plainly detrimental 20 the health and
welfare of the inmates of the Asylum,
in some cases making cure impossl-
/ BILE.
ITO the average citizen continuous
| and uninterrupted noise of this sort is
| in itself source of annoyance and
irritation: to the inmates of the Asylum
lit is apparently much more so.
1T is undoubtedly a cause of eXag-
! geration of symptoms already existing
lin many. if not all Of the cases.
The Board are also Of the unani-
NOUS opinion that the noise and con-
cussion of the blasts are even more
harmful than the noise of the crusher
for the reason just stated. Also that
the hurried moving of the patients
about the grounds to diminish danger
from falling stones eXcites and irritates
them.
prom a medical standpoint and as
plainly appears from medical opinion
herewith enclosed the continuation OF
generations at the rock crusher and OF
blasting should not continue.
THE Board feels that such dis
continuance is absolutely necessary,
and therefore again so requests.