The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-06-05
OLD FOLKS.
MAY STAY
One Woman Insists
That She Is a
Leper.

Lepers and their woes occupied /;
large share of the attention of tn,
Board of Health at yesterdays meet
II, ing Superintendent McVeigh came
down from Kalaupapa on the Lehua
and was present at the meeting.
OLD PEOPLE MAY STAY.
Superintendent Mcveigh reported or
the efforts being made to rid the set
tlement of non-leprous persons who
have no business there, but upon his
recommendation nine couples whose
ages range from sixty-five to ninety
years will be allowed to remain. The
superintendent stated that if these old
people are turned out they will have
no place to go, unless 1t be to the
Lunalilo Home. He said it would work
e great hardship to remove them from
the settlement and favored allowing
them to remain as long as they lived
as only two of them were of any ex-
pense to the board, the remaining seven
couples being self -supporting. The
recommendation of Mr.. McVeigh was
adopted.
~ lJlF SASE.
Quite different sort of a case was
that of a native woman named Helen
Kalawilo who, Supt. McVeigh said,
had been permitted to go to the set
tlement while Mr.. Gibson was presi-
dent of the Board of Health. He said
she had no right to be there, was not
a kokua, had no ties of any kind in
the settlement, and had been contin-
oil hot a~fy
herself declared a victim of leprosy.
Mr.. McVeigh said that he feared that
unless she was removed, she might in
oculate herself with leprosy germs, so
anxious was she not to leave the set
tlement. The request of the superin-
tendent that the woman's permit be
revoked was granted, and she will be
compelled to leave the place at once.
She is between thirty-five and forty
years of age. Mr. Winston called at
tention to the Lunalilo Home as
place of refuge for the nine old cou-
pies, who 1t had been decided to leave
at the settlement. President Cooper
said that the trustees were now very
strict as to who were permitted in the
home, and finally committee was ap-
pointed, consisting of DR.. Cooper and
e. c. Winston to ascertain if the old
people would be received there.
THE DIVORCE QUESTION.
Mr.. McVeigh also presented a bunch
of thirty or forty petitions from lepers
who wanted divorces and asked the At
torney General to get them. Mr.. An
dfews sud that he was, ready to do
all in his power towards relieving con-
ditions at the settlement, but would
be handicapped in the next six
months through the great amount of
work imposed by the county act.
With the threatened reduction in the
working force of the Department he
said it would be difficult to attend to
all of these cases, but he agreed to
file the divorce suits whenever oppor-
tunity offered. Another item to be
taken into consideration was the costs
which had to be paid either by his de-
partment or by the Judiciary. Such
costs as fees for serving and for |
stamps had to be paid.
OTHER MATTERS.
Upon the report of Superintendent |
McVeigh the request of X. John Ahu |
that he be allowed to remove to Kala-
wac was denied.
The request of Haumea Kanehe and |
his wife to have their daughter sent to |
them from Waimea, Kauai was de- |
MED, and she will be sent to the ka-
piolani Home instead
The request of two Hawaiian women
that their husbands be allowed to come
to the settlement as kokuas was not
acted upon, and the superintendent
will be given a chance to investigate.
Mr.. McVeigh said that fhe women
We're not helpless but that the hus-
band of one of them was reported to
be good plumber. man whom the
settlement needed quite badly.
2 The request of Miss Jane Trask to
have her sister come as a kokua was
as the petitioner was report
ed to be in helpless condition.
Kalaupapa who said she was writing
with panhandle and was almost blind
asked that her husband be allowed -
come as her kokua. The petition was
denied on the statement of the super
lntendent that she was in the Bishop
Home and that her case was a mild
one.
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