The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-09-26
WOULD
IMPORT
Wilcox Was Before
the Visiting
Board.
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Mr.. Wilcox That the leper colony
at Kalaupspa on the Island of Molokai
be taken under the care. control and
maintenance Of the Federal government
as a reservation for leprous persons un-
der the direction of the Secretary of the
Treasury. but that no leprous persons
other than those of the mainland of the
United States and of this Territory be
allowed on such reservation. Because
we don't want lepers from the Philip
pine Islands
Mr.. Thurston-Do you want them to
come from the United States?
Mr.. Wilcox-In the United states
there are only three hundred.
Mr.. Thurston--You want them
brought down here?
Mr.. Wilcox-Brought down here. The
whole thing up there-they get no care
there. The last Legislature when they
go up there find they have rotten
salmon. rotten bread, rotten clothes and
a store there built so that the Board Of
Health makes 10 per cent out of it.
Senator Mitchell-What are the find
ings of the Committee?
Mr.. Wilcox-That is the report of the
Committee? Each person was sworn
and answered question, and this is the
whole report Of the Committee last
Legislature and / know the fact
Judge Humphreys-Isn't it a fact that
that store IL run over at Molokai so that
merchants can unload shelfworn goods
onto this store?
Mr.. Wilcox-They have always done
II. know some members of the Board
of Health do that and send up bad
things to the poor lepers and charge
them full prices.
Judge Humphrcys-Is that not the
reason the local government wish to re-
tain control?
Mr.. Wilcox-I don't believe in the
Board Of Health being in business and
/ know. not this Board of Health but
ones before, and / say political man
ayers of the government here and the
Board Of Health do this. 1t Is not the
only objection. There is another OBJ
lection. l say the natives dread this
place being under the Board of Health.
They have no confidence in the Presi-
dent of the Board OF Health, the ma
tives have not.
Since the beginning Of the Board of
Health, since the segregation of the
lepers there, there have been about 40,
600 and 1t is just the same today, 1000
every year. Never any decrease. They
never mind, the people here, most of
them. They look upon the doctor of
the Board of Health and they think he
vaccinates the children with leprosy,
puts leprosy in their children. Parents
= here good and clean, the children vac
cinated in the school and they turn out
Iepers. You can blame the doctors of
the Board of Health. The lepers have
no confidence in the present govern
ment. They think that place is kept
I'D for the benefit of this Board of
Health, for gouging one hundred dol
lars a year off the leper. To save all
this trouble | believe 1t is the whole
thing, the opinion there that the Unit
ed States will see that the poor leper
is well taken care of. They will build
a hospital there and the United States
is big government, not like this one
horse concern here; and they will see
that the poor leper is well taken care
Of This is my belief. j know all the
natives are scared of that place, scared
of these people, scared of the Board of
Health. When we have got a munic-
ipal government then we will have a
Board of Health from the people, and
not one appointed either by supporters
of the government or political man
ayers and all that. We can not blame
them making money, they make money
out of the leper, out of anything.
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With its two sittings today will close
the hearings of the Senatorial Commits
sion, and from the indications the last
phases of the inquiry will be as full OF
interest as have been any Of the pre-
ceding ones.
Chairman Mitchell announced during
the afternoon session yesterday that II
was the intention of the Commission
to make its hearings of today the last
ones. The mass of testimony must be
digested and the members of the sub
committee must have some time to look
over the grounds, viewing the
city and its surroundings. looking
at the harbor and the military reserva-
tons, so II has become necessary that
The public meetings end.
That the ordinary investigations have
reached a conclusion was indicated by
the mass of testimony on varied sub,
jecIs which was collected yesterday
and there can be little 10 come on the
ordinary propositions Of government OF
procedure, There viii be some figures
submitted from the land office and the
men who are interested In the dsposi,
tion of the public domain Will have an
inning,
The defalealion Of Treasurer Wright
has introduced a feature which vii
make the hearing have a new interest
The members Of the Commission When
they heard NJ the matter, al once de,
eided that they would look deeply int,
the ease, they having already been COG
nisant ~ the fact that there 10 no bono
required ~ the Official In addition /,
Secretary Cooper, Who 10 The aoiine
treasurer, u 10 understood that Auditor
Austin Nill Do pui on the stand aac