The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-10

of the County of Oahu" and shall re-
side in Honolulu. He must be a duly
licensed Doctor of Medicine, graduate or
a college of medicine, and having pur-
sued not less than four years course of
regular medical studies, after ful col
lege education. He shall also be requ1r-
ed to furnish satisfactory proofs that
he is a thorough specialist in sanitary
science, public health or state medicine.
Who is TO judge of these qualifications
is not stated HE shall be duly ap-
pointed by the Governor, by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate, eX-
cept in the first instance, when, as pro-
vided in section 40 above, he shall
be designated by the Public Health Com
mittee of the Senate" DR.. Russell will
have a cinch in this matter, as 1t is be-
lieyed he has paved the way for his own
appointment.
Then there is to be vice president
and secretary, a suitable person for exec
utive officer who shall have the powers
and authority of a deputy sheriff in all
matters pertaining to public health. The
activity of the Board shall be scientific,
pra ctical and executive. Its duties shall
be to cooperate with and assist the
United States Marine Hospital service
in charge of quarantine of the Territory,
in preventing the Importation of infec-
tious and contagious diseases, both or
human beings and animals, into the Ter
rtory, and should any germs of such
disease be so imported, the Board Is to
take proper measures to Immediately
locate, limit and prevent the extension
of the same; to inaugurate a systematic
and scientific study of character, nature
and cause of all endemic prevalent diseas-
es within the Territory, and to determine
the most practical methods for the re-
moval of such causes, and as far as it
may be possible to linn, or destroy the
disease; to make and recommend to the
Governor such rules and regulations as
it may deem essential for the public
health and safety, respecting the prac-
tice of medicine within the Territory;
the control of prostitution, the sale Of
drugs, the adulteration of foods and
liquors, sanitary buildings, the reorgani-
cation of the Leper Settlement on princi-
| pies of self-government and all such
other rules in various branches of pub
lie hygiene which the said Board may
see fit to regulate and control in accord
ance with modern knowledge of public
sanitation; which rules and regulations
when so made and recommended during
an interim between sessions of the Leg
,islature, shall have the effect of law I'M
til the next legislative session; to exer-
else proper sanitary control over labor
ers' quarters, mills and manufacturing
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vessels which may be beyond the control
of the United State Marine Hospital Ser
vice railroads, public and private build
ings, public and private schools and hos
pitfalls, prisons, water supplies and mar
kets; to control and regulate the exami-
nation of lepers and vaccination.
| ''The Board of Health as a whole, and
its individual members, officers and
agents, shall have the right to enter and
inspect between the hours of sunrise and
sunset, any premises, public or private,
and any opposition to such right shall
constitute misdemeanor and be punish
| ed by a fine of not less than IS or more
| than 500, or by Imprisonment not less
than five or more than 100 days. Mem
bers of the Board are to be paid mileage
in addition to other compensation here
in provided, at the rate of ten cents per
mile for each mile actually travelled over
in the discharge of his duties; provided,
however, that this shall not apply within
the city or town limits in which the off,
Ger resides
The same query arises in regard to the
sanitary officers for the various counties,
as to who shall be competent to pass
upon their qualifications for the offices,
as it is provided they shall be duly IL
censed Doctors of Medicine, and possess
all the other qualifications required of
the president, except that they shall not
be required to be thorough specialists.
The first complement of these officers
are to be appointed by the Governor. The
Territorial bacterologist, besides pos
sessing all the other qualifications re-
quired by the sanitary officers, shall fur
nish satisfactory evidence that he is q
specialist in bacteriology, and the Same
applies to the Territorial analyst in his
special department. The veterinary shall
have had three years actual experience
in, ifa~ off q
not to be allowed to practice medicine
during their tenure of office, but may
give medical assistance to individuals
without pay. Surely this is a splendid
concession. Section % reads:
Conditions unfavorably affecting, OF IL
able to affect the public health, created
artificially by individuals, corporations
city, county or Territorial authorities.
shall be removed at the expense of the
party or parties causing the existence
thereof. Conditions injurious to public
health, due to natural causes, independ-
ent of human activity, neglect, ignorance
or bad will, may be removed within the
means afforded by general or special ap-
preparations of the Board of Health, at
the expense of the Territory. Where
both human activity and natural causes
are involved, the expense of removal
shall be justly divided between the Ter
ritory and the respective individuals or
corporation.
Section &C. The executive committee
of the Board of Health shall be composed
of all the members thereof having their
permanent residences in Honolulu, and
shall represent the Board and carry out
all the duties, routine and administra-
tive business thereof between the meet
ings of SAID Board; but all the transac-
lions of such executive committee shall
be subject to the approval of the Board
at its next quarterly meeting. The pres
ident of the Board of Health shall be ex-
officio chairman of such executive COM
mittee, and shall, in case of a division
have two votes. The secretary of the
Board of Health shall be a secretary OF
such executive committee, and perform
all the duties incident thereto.
Probably the following section is aim
ed at the Maternity Home:
Section 81. No lying-in, private, county
or municipal hospital, or sanitarium, oil
similar institution intended for the
treatment Of the sick or injured, wheth.
er charitable or for pay, shall be per-
mitted by the Board Of Health, unless