The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-05-15
KOKUAS
MUST LEAVE
Twelve to Be Sent
Away at
Once.


Settlement. Supt. McVeigh sent down
list of twelve yesterday whom he was
ordered by the Board to deport imme-
diately and another list of fifty whose
services can be dispensed with was
also submitted but will not be acted
upon until the return of Mcveigh to
Honolulu.
The list Of a dozen whom McVeigh
wanted removed Immediately were in
his opinion neither useful nor orna-
mental" and did nothing but draw ra-
tions and add a large expense to the
workings of the settlement. The
Superintendent submitted strong reas-
ons why there was no further use for
these particular kokuas at Kaulapapa.
Most of them were sent in the first
place as helpers to wives and hus-
bands who had since died. Some of
these had married again. One had
married a kokua and had a child who
was also clean. Mcveigh wanted the
whole family removed.
One woman had been sent up to as
sist her husband, leper. He died
Chinese. Her second husband died and
she was again married.
Another is now a police officer and
he has married kokua. Besides he
had become quarrelsome and had been
ing. Another man who had been
sent up as kokua to his wife, had since
deserted her and was living with an
~
inveterate swipes drinker who was not
needed by his wife whom he had been
sent to assist. The last man McVeigh
referred to as "a lazy cuss' who would
MT work and had petitoned the legis-
lature to pass law so that no kokua
need work.
supt Mcveigh reported also that Of
five lepers who had been declared so,
since coming to the settlement as ko-
kuas, three were found to be clean by
DIR. Goodhue. None of them had ever
been examined by the Board of Health
and he recommended an investigation.
Supt. McVeigh also submitted a list
of fifty more persons in the settlement
whom he said were not needed there.
Upon motion of E. C. Winston the
superintendent was authorized to get
rid of the twelve persons he wished to
deport Immediately, and the other fifty
names will be considered at future
meeting.
MORALS OF LEPERS.
Supt. McVeigh also submitted a re-
port upon the question of unlawful CO.
habitation among the lepers, something
which was strongly denounced by the
Mitchell Commission.
He said that in accordance with the
resolution OF the Board he had made
a careful study of the subject and
found that it was about the hardest
problem yet tackled by the Board Of
Health. He said he had interviewed
the guilty parties and found willing
ness among most of them to give up
the unlawful practice and marry If they
could legally do so. The difficulty,
however, was that most of them had
either husbands or wives living out
side, and therefore could not legally
marry. Unfortunately, also, they did
not have the funds to employ counsel
or to pay court cases. Supt. McVeigh
recommended that the secretary fur
nish to the Attorney General a certif-
icate that the people had leprosy.
which was ground for divorce, and
that the Attorney General then bring
action for divorce without costs. Nc
Weigh said that II the lepers then per-
sisted in unlawful cohabitation he
would take means to prosecute them
under the law. and added that he would
do everything in his power to elevate
and improve the morals of the lepers.
The letter was referred to the At
torney General and S. X. Kane to
ascertain what could be done by way
of carrying out McVeigh's recon-
mendations.
. - . 90 %
1.-THE movement / am going to start
in New York" said he. sis meant to
solve the problem of the unrcoched
masses. 1t was for that my father
started the Salvation Army.
MY appeal is to the eye. l am go
ing to form in this city great theatre,
with a powerful company of Christian
actors. My movement is to be known
as the Scientific Evangelization Society
and it will be for the purpose of send
ing broadcast illustrated bible dramas.
l expect to get such writer's as Canon
Farrar was to write powerful dramas
for me-"