The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-05-15
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Jap Physicians
Worry Health
Board.
CURIOUS NOT
WANTED AT KALlHI
DR.. Oliver Demands Pay From
the Board-New Inspectors
Are Appointed.

~ Hawaii TO be exploited for mere
AA curiosity. and a renewal OF the
ultimatum tha; only English-speaking
physicians can practice in the Terri
tory. were the principal features of the
regular meeting OF the Board of Health
yesterday afternoon. All the members
of the board were present. together
with Exacutive officer Pratt and Sec
retary Charlock.
SEGREGATION ON STEAMERS.
There was some discussion of rule
providing that lepers should not be car
ried on regular passenger steamers, but
it was finally decided to allow the pres
ent methods to prevail. with a proyiso
that the affected persons should be
segregated on board the steamers, and
a special place be set aside for their
use. Mr.. Dole was appointed as a COM
mittee of one to discuss this proposal
with President Wight, OF the Wilder
Steamship Company, and 1t is thought
that he viii consent, so that no regu-
lation Will be required. 1t is expected
that a portion OF the steamers which
call at Kaulapapa will be set aside for
the lepers. fumigation to follow each
trip to the settlement
NEW INSPECTORS APPOINTED.
The report of the committee appoint
ing six new sanitary inspectors and
agents OF the Board of Health, to be
paid from the appropriation made by
the two commercial bodies of the city.
was approved. and commissions or
dered to be issued. The new officers
appointed yesterday are John II. Tay-
lor James Mcqueen, c. Ii. Kinney, p
McGrath, F. r. Nugent and p. Fitzgib-
bons. This will not quite use up the
appropriation made by the Chamber of
Commerce and the Merchants Associa-
ton. and there was some discussion as
to what should be done with the re-
nainder of the money.
PHYSICIANS GVsF SPEAK ENG
LISH ,
The recommendation of the Board of
Medical Examiners that a certificate to
practice medicine be issued TO T. Uri-
mure was laid over for a week upon the
objection OF DR.. Cooper He stated that
the new rule requiring all examinations
- be conducted in the English Ian
guage had been In effect since May /
and he wished TO know whether that
regulation had been complied with. DR..
Sloggett suggested that the Board of
Medical Examiners had been made ac-
quainted with the rule. and would
hardly have passed the applicant un-
less he had complied with the condi-
tion. The motion TO lay the applica-
ton upon the table until the next meet
ing was adopted unanimously.
NO EXPLOITATION OF LEPERS
The application of Miss Alma s. An
ierson and Mrs. Frances T.. Owens for
permission to visit the kalihi receiv
ng station was denied. Miss Anderson.
n her letter to the board, stated that she
was a nurse and had been at one time
of the Monod hospital
IA Seattle. She also made application
1n behalf Of Mrs. Owens. whom she
said was a member OF the Women's
Press Club of Chicago. and that both
we're interested in Ieprosy. DR.. Moore
moved that the petition be denied, stat
ng that Hawaii's lepers had been suffi-
,iently advertised and otherwise ex-
dotted in the Eastern press. He stated
hat one of these women had come tn
i'm some time ago with a request for
z. A. Mott-Smith said
e did not believe they should be al
owed TO mingle with lepers in order to
atisfy an idle curiosity. The resolu-
ion was adopted, all members voting
Or it excepting Mr.. Dole. who did not
ote.
A NEW CEMETERY.
The application from Rev. John Ke-
ipi, pastor OF Hoomana Karistiano
Iaauao church, for permission to es
ablish a cemetery on Bishop estate
md just nauka OF the Insane Asylum
rusher was laid over until the next
r. =. rt,a Darr
-ekipi is required to furnish map
howing the exact location Of the pro
osed burial ground.
OTHER MATTERS
Mr.. Bath, the plumber. has appealed
ON a ruling made by Plumbing In
oector Keen in regard to work done
y him, but the matter was laid over
ntil the next meeting.