Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-09-20
PLUMBERS REFUSED
HOSPITAL SUBSIDIES
ARE IN QUESTION
Kakaako Pond Condemned After Long
Delay - Other Business
Transacted by Board
Of Health.

o'HttHtH' We Hdu DetttT proceed
to business. and | think the first thing
is to congratulate DR.. Cooper on his
safe return and improved appear
ance."
Thus DR.. Sloggett. president called
the Board Of Health to order at $40
yesterday afternoon. there being pres.
ent with him DIR. G. b. Cooper, Il. A.
Mott-Smith. DIR. W. NJ. Moore and VIM.
Aud. also In attendance Or. J. $. y.
Pratt, executive officer, G. b. Reynolds,
superintendent of leper settlement.
and c. Charlock. secretary.
The president appointed. as the wa.
ter committee ordered at last meeting,
Mott-Smith. Aud. Moore and Rey.
nolds.
William Clark petitioned for per-
NIT for lumber to erect fence around
the church at Kalawao. As this would
involve the payment Of freight by the
Board; the petition was denied.
The committee on the request of the
Master Plumbers Association for a
regulation to compel plumbers doing
sanitary work to pass an examination
and furnish a bond presented a unani-
nous report. II was concluded by tho
committee that the Board had no au-
thority to make such regulation. II
could control plumbing on sanitary
grounds but could not control the man
doing the work. The matter was one
OF legislation. II was considered that
the present regulations formed sufii.
Client safeguard for the community.
Adopted.
A letter from the Auditor Of the Ter
ritory relating to hospitals. enclosing
opinions Of the Attorney General. was
read and discussed. Mr.. Mott-Smith
offered motion that the executive on
Ger write to the Auditor, informing him
Of the relations between the Board aud
the hospitals at Waimea and Lihue.
DR.. Pratt said the Auditor had al.
ready been fully informed on the mat
ter. The Auditor simply would not
approve bills for hospitals not owned
by the government nor under the con
troll of the Board.
The conclusion OF the Auditors let
ter reads: I'm accordance with the
Attorney Generals opinion | will audi:
and pay vouchers for expenditures un-
der the different hospital appropfia.
tlons. upon the assurance being given
through your Board. by certificate or
otherwise. that these institutions are
open to the public under such snpcrvl
sion as the Board of Health may elect
to assume"
The matter was left in the hands Of
Mr.. Mott-Smith. as a committee o. one.
to report at next meeting.
The resolution to condemn a pond at
kakaako. sidetracked some tire age,
was brought up.
DR.. Cooper had hoped that the pond
would have been filled up before his rs-
turn.
The resolution was adopted.
A report from the board of cXaml'
nsrs was received, In favor of licenses
to DR.. w. B. Deas, a graduate OF Coop
er medical college. San Francisco. and
DR.. kawamoto. of a college in Japan.
Adopted.
Instructions to government pnysi.
clans. prepared by the executive officer
were read and passed. with ameEd-
ments.
a native woman petit Incl for per-
mission to go u kdlaupapa as neiper
to q relative. She said size was a lep.r
herself. In answer to a suggestion by
Or. Cooper that she 60 pcfor" the eX-
aiming board for lcpers, Dr Pratt
said she had been there ana prunouEc
cd not Il leper. The petition was de.
MED.
The report of Malulani hospital
Waikiki, showing a balance of $685.. n
on hand the last OF August, was read
and accepted.
A letter from DR.. +. X. Ii. a Chinese
practitioner, elsewhere referred to-
was laid on the table.
II was voted to pay DR.. Holland 81
for services In Olaa In July. The
Legislature cut of the appropriation
for Olaa, leaving DR.. Holland but $50
for Puma, He did the Olaa work. how.
ever, until relieved by DR.. Grace on
the first of August, Olaa being added to
the Hilo doctors district.