The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-04-01
IIRSIP ANNUAL
REPORT OF
M'VEIGH
OintS Out Improvements He
Thinks Could be Made at The
SettIement-PraiSeS Work Of
Dr. Goodhue,

Superintendent j. d. McVeigh's tfrst
iennial report on leper settlement af-
Airs contains the latest statistics of
be settlement, together with some in
eresting comments on the conditions
here. The work of DR.. Goodhue is
hghly commended, and the report in
,eneral shows improved conditions,
hough McVeigh has several important
omplaints and recommendations to
make. The report contains the follow
ng:
ia number of people who have receiv-
h permits from the Board to come here
ind care for some relative Qeper), have
litter the death of said relative been
permitted to remain, and have been al
owed to remarry, in a majority of
ases to lepers. Some have married
tOkuas. AlL
8"Allowing these people to remain in
he Settlement is contrary to Section
8 of the Regulations of the Board re-
Ating to kokuas. l would recommend
hat this section be so amended that
be disposition of these kokuas be left
b the discretion of the superintendent
md that they only be allowed to re-
main during good behavior.
1--WE had at the Settlement December
1st, 1902. As boys and IS girls, non-lep-
pus children of leper parentage. 1 am
Yell aware that members of different
Boards of Health have at nearly every
iession of our Legislature Urged thu
lecessity of erecting a Home for Nom
eprousaBoys, and I also know that the
mpport and treatment of our lepers
5 a heavy drain upon the finances of
DE Territory.
I y would most respectfully ask that
iur Senators and Representatives be
requested for an appropriation to erect
ylch a Home.
1T is a terrible thing to contemplate
Is boys whose ages range from one to
BEN years living with lepers and being
iaily and hourly exposed to this dread
Hsease.
Y"Gf this appropriation is allowed, l
would suggest that a law be passed
making it compulsory to have these
children removed from the Set
Element The affection that lepers have
Eor their children is, l believe, greater
than even well people have for theirs
and, i'll many instances they would re-
fuse to surrender their children, to be
taken away.
| Since the arrival of DR.. w. ]. Good
hue at the Settlement, as Resident
Physician, there has been a large in
Grease in the NUMBER OF calls at the
hispensary for medicines. The outside
visits have also greatly increased.
&It is an impossibilty for a proper
secord and diagnosis Of cases to be
made at present, in the form of a re-
port to the Board of Health, by the
Resident Physician, as his time is so
taken up with office and house calls. 1
would strongly recommend that an as
sistant physician be given DR.. Good
hue.
e''I have so much confidence in his
professional abilities, combined with
the enthusiasm With which he has TAX
en- hold of the medical work of the Set
tlement, that l believe with suitable
assistance in his labors a greatly i'm
proved, if not entirely successful treat
nent will be found.
Il beg to submit attached, my re-
port of the business of Kalaupapa
Store for the year ending December
31st 1902.
1T is very difficult to find a man in
the Settlement who has any knowledge
Of a business of this kind, or who will
endeaVor to learn enough to carry on
the store successfully. 1t would be an
knpossibility to find a man able to
Satisfy our customers, judging from
the criticism we hear from our people,
Regarding prices at the store. A
Stranger hearing these criticisms
would believe that we were charging at
least, an additional one hundred per
cent on each article, when in fact bare