The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-11-10

AS far as the matter Of contracts is
concerned, Mr.. Cooper has power TO
continue to make them If he chooses /
until ne goes out of office. Though ]
have not power to stop IL. | do not /
propose to remain unheard while 1t is
bein gdone. While there is a question
pending as to which are county and
which Territorial bureaus ! do not
think it proper for the territory to go
ahead with spending money on bureaus
which may prove to be county institu-
tions. Mr. Cooper may 60 ahead If he
chooses and sign contracts to spend a
million dollars, in the next few days.
Mr.. Cooper thinks that the water
works and some other bureaus are ter
ritorial institutions. The county bill
says they are county institutions and
| believe that they arc with a num-
Der of bureaus there are these two
views which the administration may
take and until we decide which line to
take l do not think it proper to spend
large sums of Territorial money on
the institutions.
The legislature and the people have
declared for county government. want
ing more elastic local administration,
and it seems to be to have been the in
tent that these bureaus should be in
the hands of the counties"
George Markham called at the secre-
tary's office early in the morning He
had with him a lot Of correspondence
which he has been CARRYING on with
Governor Dole, Secretary Hitchcock
and others, with regard to some old
land transactions which he thinks were
not good one for the Territory. Mark
ham announced his attention of call
ing a mass; meeting at Bethel street,
to oppose the new deals just proposed.
"They are exchanging plantation land
worth $l50,000 for Honolulu land worth
only $4,000" said Markham. later
raising his estimate of the plantation
land to 100000. He declared that he
would call n mass meeting and take
the platform, reading the correspond
ence he had had with Dole and others.
and offering resolutions to denounce
Cooper's proposed exchanges. Mark
ham appears in a new role as an OPP
ponent of Cooper, but he says that the
land deals are all wrong.
ed from the world to minister to these
unfortunates.
The daughters of st. Vincent de Paul
volunteered to do tNe nursing. There
was no difficulty in securing volun-
teers. Some of them came from Boston
practically closed the word to them.
In all these respects, Drs. Kohnke
and Dyer and Father BreVor found a
| great Improvement in the home. The
medical attendance and nursing have,
it was found improved the condition of
the lepers, holding out the encourag-
ment that the disease would yield to
! treatment and its advance could be
stayed even if it could not be cured.
I'D tl,,
| of the patients encouraged the doctors
to believe that a cure was possible in
the milder cases.
But here the favorable conditions
ended. The visitors found the build.
Ings in a deplorable condition, the
roofs leaking, and many of them open
to the winds, the water supply insuffi-
cient and the lepers subjected to many
Inconvenience and apnoyances which,
the visitors believe, prevent their i'm
provement or cure.
The trouble is due to the fact that it
, is impossible to get workmen to go
within the leper limits or to make i'm
| provements in the buildings occupied
| by them. Workmen fear that tie mere
handling of the lumber may transfer
the disease to them. Hence the build
! ings occupied by the lepers go rapidly
| to decay.
The lepers themselves are too feeble
| DO any work. For similar reasons there
is no sufficient water supply. AS a
| consequence, the inmates of the home
suffer from exposure to the weather,
which, DR.. Kohnke believes, seriously
interferes with any chance OF their
| cure.
Ihere have been three new cottages
Quit, Tor Workingmen were induced to
handle newly sawed lumber: but these
are not ready yet Tor occupancy. ana
even when they are readJ they VIII NOT
provide for all the lepers. The cottages
at present occupied are utterly unfit
for the patients.
AS a consequence the lepers suffer
greatly from the weather especially
from the damp and cold. 1t seems i'm
possible for them to get warm for the
cold turks in their bones. Several of
the patients have burned themselves
severely while hugging the fire too
closely in the vain effort to secure a |
little warmth.
Inc present arrangement necessitates
exposure of the lepers at every meal
hour, some of the lepers being Obliged
10 walk ore hundred yards to their
meals. Some cannot walk at all and
nave to be carried, while others walk |
slowly, painfully and with great detri- |
ment to their condition. Exposure to
cold and inclement weather, bad for |
all sick PERSONS, is especially hard on !
the leper being always an excitant to .
the disease.
This condition of affairs, bad for the
lepers' is bad also for the public. The
laws or Louisiana require the Sheriff
ana District Judge to report all cases
OF leprosy and have the lepers removed
to the home. This duty is confined TO
the Board of Health in New Orleans.
which has. under DR.. Kohnke, carried
out the law and removed the cases of
leprosy to Indian Camp
The trials before the district court to
nave these patients declared Iepers, and
therefore removable to the home, were
or the most touching character and
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