The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-28
SHAVE PAY
OF DOCTORS
Attention Is Paid
to Bad Land
in HiIo.
Oriental Ports Almost
|, Entirely Clean Last
Accounts.
DR.. E. S. Goodhue is Physician
for konas- Four Insanitary
Houses OF lwiIei.

Houses OF lwilei.
Salaries of government physicians
formed the first item of business at the
regular meeting of the Board of Health
yesterday afternoon. President Coo
Per introduced it with the remark that
it was necessary to reduce the salaries
from $500 to $3.50 a month for the
whole Territory. 1t could be managed
by a revision of the schedule.
There was but little discussion and
the matter was left in the hands Of the
president as a committee of one to
revise the schedule.
The meeting was constituted by DR..
c. B. Cooper, president; Fred C. Smith,
DR.. w. H. Mays, E. E. winston and
Attorney General Lorrin Andrews.
Officers present were C. Charlock, sec
rotary; DR.. Pratt, chief health officer;
J. D. McVeigh, superintendent of Ieper
settlement, and Miss Mae Weir, stem
ographer.
APPOINTMENTS.
DR.. E. S. Goodhue and D. L. L. Moore
each applied for the position of gov
eminent physician for North and South
Kona. Dr. Goodhue was appointed,
being given the preference as former
employe of the Board in similar ca
pac!ty. DR.. Mays, as well as the
president, expressed a desire to keep
DR.. Moore in mind for any future
opening that might occur.
Dr. George Herbert was appointed a
member of the examining board for
lepers. in place of DR.. r. P. Myers, re-
signed.
A letter was received from DR.. L. E.
Cofer, chief quarantine officer, ex-
orary membership of the Boards COM
mittee having charge of soliciting Fed
eral aid in the scientific investigation
of leprosy.
HILO BAD LANDS.
Superintendent of Public Works c.
s. Holloway wrote a letter to the
Board regarding the public land at
Hilo sought to be condemned on ac-
count of its insanitary condition. He
said the matter had been referred to
the departments agent at Hilo, E. E.
Richards, and on receiving his report
the Superintendent would advise the
Board just what steps it would be pos
sible to take to improve the sanitary
conditions of the locality.
HOSPITAL SUBSIDIES.
Attorney General Andrews made
statement on the subject of subsidized
institutions. 1t was a mistake of the
Auditor to have quoted the Attorney
Generals Department for authoriy in
refusing the subsidy to the Hospital for
Incurables. There was no question in
his mind about the cases of the Queens
Hospital and the Kapiolani Maternity
Home, any other hospital whose man
agement charged one person fees and
gave another one. free treatment, at its
own sweet will. Mr.. Andrews promised
further attention of the department to
the question in general as soon as OBJ
pcrtunity could be obtained.
AN IWILEI NUISANCE.
TT. Pratt, at the presidents request,
made a statement about four houses on
Dowsett estate land at Iwilei, which
We're in insanitary condition. 1t was
believed the property was under con-
troll of the Dillingham; company. A
suggestion by the president that the
Board drive over in the new ambulance
after the meeting was not adopted be-
cause some of the members could not
go.
ORRESPONDENCE.
On the suggestion of the president,
the Medical Society was accorded an
invitation to use the office. of the Board
as a meeting place.
A letter from w. r. Castle, represent
ing others in confidential matter, was
read but the Board decided the matter
was not within its jurisdiction.
A letter was received and filed from
the Post Check Currency Bureau, rela- |
tive to the evil of polluted commercial ,
paper in circulation.
A letter from Surgeon General Wy !
man at Washington was read. 1t ap- |
pears elsewhere.
CLEAN ORIENTAL PORTS.
DR.. L. E. Cofer's latest report on |
health conditions in the Orient was re- |
eeived with expressions of gratifica- !
ion, also the remark, ''Tliey must be /
preparing for war Hongkong. two .
weeks to Jan. 2; Nagasaki, two weeks !
o Jan. 8; Kobe, two weeks to Jan.
%. and Yokohama, two weeks to Jan. /
5, were all reported as clean" Only
shanghai retained a trace of the pesti-
entail conditions regularly reported
rom that side of the Pacific ever since
he Federal quarantine office here be-
AN its work. Shanghai, two weeks to
an. 2, had nine deaths of smallpox, but
10 new cases.