The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-07-18


lVk the Board Of Health yesterday
afternoon. There were present
President sIoggett, Moore, Cooper Dole,
Isenberg and Fred Smith, with Execu-
awe officer Pratt. Secretary Charlock
and Superintendent McNeigh.
The petition from the residents at
Kalawao protesting against their re-
ynoval to the settlement proper at Ka-
iaupapa was granted. one hundred and
fourteen lepers Joined in the petition,
which presented the following reasons
against change
Il. The leper settlement was first es-
tabished at Kalawao.
"2 We love the place.
% We are healthy here.
I'VE further petition to have our old
and worn-out buildings reshingled."
Superintendent McVeigh, who was
called upon for his opinion on the mat
ter. stated that the only objection to
rhe KalawaO section was that 1t had
lentailed the employment of two sets of
officers, but he has since arranged
things so that no extra force was re-
qured
Some of the buildings at Kalawao
were also uninhabitable, and he had Sc
cured the removal OF the lepers to bet
ter houses. He had also repaired and
.shingled the buildings requiring 1t ana
ne was in favor of allowing the petit
ton. This was done with Il proviso
that in the future no lepers sent from
Honolulu should be allowed to go to-
KalaWao.
NO AVA LICENSE.
A petition from ]. d. Kahale and Nj.
Holopinai for permission to sell ava at
the settlement was denied. The petit
zion stated that Treasurer Wright had
refused to grant the necessary license
until it had been given the sanction OF
the Board of Health. The following
reasons for favorable action on the part
of the Board of Health were urged in
the petition:
Il. Their getting a license for the
selling Of ava will do away with the
breaking of the Board of Health law
regarding the use of ava at the set
Element.
80. It will be profitable to the ava
planters by selling their products TO-
them, the license holders as section 49,
chapter So, part Of the Penal Code
reads: That the selling of ava by the
ava planters to those not holding Ii
cense is tabu'
80. Great numbers of drinkers at the
settlement are anxious to be supplied
with ava.
i. 1t VIII do away with the making
II swipes.
-. Ava drinking does not in any
way raise trouble and disturbance. but
will keep the peace of the settlement.
80. Ava is considered by the Ha
rwalians as medicine, as you viii find in
. Gibson's Health Book"
Superintendent McVeigh reported that
ava was being sold in the settlement
the police being unable to ferret out the
offenders. He stated that the liquor
could be found in the homes of the lep-
ers. but that vendors always denied
selling il, claiming that they had sim
ply bought it for the people in whose
hands it had been discovered. The rea-
son that license was desired, he said, |
was because the Illicit sellers were
making big profit and the petitioners /
wanted TO come in for share.
AS TO the medicinal qualities Of the |
drink, DR.. Sloggett said that he believ-
ed it To be harmful, and DR.. Moore
added that he had heard old settlers .
say that ava was responsible in a !
measure for leprosy. In any event ne
did not think the liquor was at all
beneficial
NEW HORSES ARE ALLOWED.
petition from about thirty Of the
residents for permission to import
number Of good horses into the settle
ment was allowed. Superintendent. Nc
Weigh, in response to questions, said
that the horses on the place at pres
ent were sufficient for all purposes, but
that number of the lepers owned
brakes and carriages and desired To get
nne horses TO hitch TO them. He IA
Vored the request, provided that the
petitioners kept the ANIMALS IN stables
of their own. Upon the motion of Mr.
Dole 1t was finally decided to allow the
importation of such animals as we-e
desired on condition that they shall be
substituted for the poor ones now at
the settlement, and the present number
OK animals now at Kalaupapa shall not
be increased
TROUBLE WITH KOKUAS.
superintendent McVeigh called atten-
!tion to the fact that two kokuas now
at the settlement had become insane.
and while they were harmless he knew
of no place to put them. 1t was de-
: cided TO send the women to the insane
asylum In Honolulu, II, after a rigid
'cxarninat on. they are found to be clean.
Attention was also called to nine ko-
kuas whose relatives had died, but who
still retained their old places in the SET
Element and continued to draw regular
ratons. Mr.. McVeigh wished to place
them N the Lunalilo Home but there
mad been objection. and he considered
II unacceptable to turn them out of the
setteirent Fhe matter was laid upon
the table without action OF any kind
WAITE TRANSPORTATION.
The supcrintendent also made annli-