The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-04-29
HOSPITALS
SUFFERING
keahi Home Kept
Up by Private
Means.

Yesterday the Board of Health held
it's weekly meeting in the office lately
occupied by the plumbing inspector i'm
Kapuaiwa building. President l.. T..
Pinkham was in the chair. with him
being present Assistant Attorney Gen.
eral M. f. Prosser, John C. Lane. DIR.
G. b. Cooper Fred C. Smith and DIR.
w. III. Mays. c. Charlock. secretary,
and Miss Mae Weir, stenographer, were
in attendance.
THE BUSINESS PRESENTED.
President Pinkham laid the principal
business of the meeting before the
Board in the following written address:
Honolulu, April %, 1904.
To the Members of the Board of
Health.
The matters to come before you today
are limited to generalities.
Your President has had interviews
with Bishop Libert and the Rev. II. H.
Parker. relative to cemeteries, and finds
both gentlemen liberal in their views
toward, conserving the public health.
1t would be useless at this time to offer
any suggestions until the subject in all
its details has been thoroughly studied
and weighed.
The time approaches when DR.. Coop
er will attend the Annual Conference
of State and Territorial Health officers
with the United States Public Health
and Marine Hospital Service" and take
his place Mt the head of the Committee
on Leprosy."
Your President has addressed the
Governor on the subject. and spoken to
the committee from the recent Legis-
| lature also on the matter.
1t would seem an opportunity to in
| terest the highest medical and scien-
tific skill in the study and investiga-
ton of this disease, in the hope that
ultimately knowledge and means may
be found for it's amelioration, and pos
sible cure.
Your President believes the subject
| should be presented to the lepers them
selves In the most dispassionate and
| intelligent manner, that their desire for
scientific investigation may be brought
to the attention of the highest medical
| authorities.
1t is too early to do more than to
create sentiment in Hawaii, and draw
the attention of specialists more par
ticularly to the need for study Of the
disease.
Your President regrets to report sew
eral hospitals are suffering from the
| lack of funds. The care of the sick liz
an imperative duty that cannot be
shirked, though the government must
be protected from imposition. The Lee
ahi Home for Incurables Is notably in
need of funds, and only through the
generosity of it's treasurer has 1t been
able to continue.
A solution of the problem is hoped for
before your next meeting.
Except n few routine items there Is
nothing further to bring before you.
Respectfully,
(Signed L. e. PINKHAM,
President, Board of Health.
PEsTILENCE IN ORIENT.
l.. Il. Cofer, Passed Assistant Sur
geon, Chief Quarantine officer, Terri
tory of Hawaii, sent in report on the
health conditions in the Orient as fol-
lows:
Hongkong, two weeks to April 8, 1904.
-Asiatic Cholera, cases |, deaths I;
Smallpox, cases 3, deaths 2; Plague,
cases g. deaths 3.
Shanghai, two weeks to April g.
Smallpox, cases 8, deaths %.
Nagasaki, two weeks to April H.
Smallpox, cases 4, deaths 5.
Kobe, two weeks to April 13.-Small-
pox, cases 2, deaths 0.
Yokohama, two weeks to April 16.-
Clean
PLAGUE AT AUCKLAND.
W. r. Hoare, British Consul, com
municated n cablegram from j. G.
Ward for Premier of New Zealand, re-
evening, saying:
Regret inform you one death from
plague occurred yesterday at Auckland.
All precautions taken. Contracts well
and under supervision"
OTHER MATTERS.
President Pinkham stated that In
spector Bowman at IIilo had written
complaining of smoke nuisance there.
rs It prejudicial to the public
healthY' Mr.. Prosser jud.ciully inquir-
ed.
1T is preJudiolal to their clothing"
the president replied,
a motion to place the letter on file
was carried,
There was an Informal discussion ON
lhu supply OF medicines Tor the free
bringing M some talk ~
tht probabilities uf Government phyal-
clans generally koepng their positions
under tho nominal salaries allowed
thrm hy The Legislature holhlnK dnfr
nilu nu Tho mllirr was revealed,
Portuguese rnnHul ranaNArrn N IN
fali made ~ niherrs