The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-06-26
DA|RYMtN' US
COMPLAIN |.
Want to Compete
for Supplying
Milk.
(From Thursdays Daily.)

There was long order of business
for yesterdays meeting of the Board
of Health, besides which an after sas-
sion for executive matters held the
members until 4:SO o'clock.
DR.. C. b. Cooper, president, was in
the chair, others present being Fred.
C. Smith. DR.. w. S. Mays, Mark p.
Robinson, S. X. Kane and r. c. Win
ston members; DR.. ]. S. B. Pratt, exec
utive officer: C. Charlock, secretary: j.
d. McVeigh, superintendent Leper Set
Element; Miss Mae Weir, stenographer,
and Rev. j. NJ. Naeole, of Kalaupapa.
PETITIONS, ETC.
Action of the president was approved
IN granting permits to Attorneys SAT-
frey and Richardson to attend Judge
Kalua in holding a session of the Cir
cult Court at Kalaupapa.
Ike petition of John Robert Holt for
permission to open a coffee shop at Ka-
laupapa was, on the recommendation of
Mr.. McVeigh, granted.
Mrs. Maihue had her petition grant
ed to permit her husband to go to the
Settlement as a kokua.
JURISDICTIONAI.
A. G. Kullberg petitioned for permits
sion to open fish market in Hilo. The
president stated the Board could only
deal with markets in existence, and it
was decided to refer Mr.. Kullberg to
the Superintendent of Public Works.
A letter was received from George
r. Carter, Secretary of the Territory,
stating that the Executive Council was
not in favor of b. H. Smiths scheme
of establishing drinking fountains for
horses throughout the city. At the sug-
gestion of Mr.. Smith it was voted to
reply to the Secretary of the Territory
in effect that the Boards jurisdiction
only extends to the sanitary question of
the proposed fountains.
DR.. w. f. Jones sent in an applica-
ton for the position of veterinary sur
geon at Hilo. 1t was voted to reply
that there being no appropriation in
the hands of the Board for the purpose
the application could not be considered.
PERSONA NON GRATA.
A letter from Mr.. McVegh was
read, petitioning that the permit of c.
kopena, as a kokua, be revoked for
refusal to work. Mr.. McVeigh orally
stated that Kopena had been at the
Settlement since 1871, and married to
several women in that time. He was
a habitual drunkard, a maker of swipes
and entirely regardless of orders and
warnings. His presence at the Settle
ment was pernicious and an example
should be made of him. Kopena was
about sixty-seven years of age and
seemed to be thriving on his rotations
Mr. Naeole made a statement cor
roborative of the superintendent's.
Mr.. Kane said it was hard to turn
a man of Kopena's age out separat-
ing him from his wife, and although it
a serious case against him he
ought to have hearing. He suggested
and Dr. Mays moved that the matter
be deferred until the visit of the Board
next month, which carried with the
addition by Mr.. Robinson that in the
the accused be warned to
obey the regulations of the Board.
COMPETITION FOR SUPPLIES.
Paul r. Isenberg, president of the
Dairymen's Association, wrote express
ing surprise that the Board had not
called for tenders for milk among other
President Cooper stated that he had
replied to Mr.. Isenberg, to the effect
that DR.. Pratt had found that tenders
for milk had not been asked since 1891.
Last months milk bill for the Asylum
was $54, and the average being about
$50 month would bring the expendi-
ture for year within the rule of COM
petition for contracts amounting to
more than $500. He had promised Mr..
lsenberg to bring the matter to the at
tentop of the Board.
Mr.. Winston stated that Mr.. Clark
had asked him to represent to the
Board that tenders should be invited
for such supplies to the Asylum as
apples. grapes and potatoes.
Mr.. Smith said matches might as
well be added. Often no advantage was
obtained from contracts.
1t was voted to refer the whole ques-
ton to the Asylum committee for a
report.
VARIOUS REPORTS.
Reports were read and accepted from
the food commissioner, the plumbing
Inspector and the Hilo sanitary inspec-
tor. Two letters from DR.. Cofer Fed
eral chief quarantine officer, were also
received and filed. The latest of these
gave health conditions in the Orient as
follows:
Hongkong, two weeks to May 80
smallpox cases 2, deaths o. Plague |
Eases 266, deaths 225.
Shanghai. two weeks to June g.
Smallpox cases 0, deaths 2.
NagaSaki, two weeks To June r.
Plague cases !, deaths /.
Kobe, two weeks to June Small |
,ox cases 8. deaths 0.