The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-03-23
ASK WHY LEPERS SHOULD
Be EXAMINED BY HOUSE
Board OF Health Sustains pinkham in His Refusal
to Grant Permits for Examination
of Condemned Lepers.

And now it is the Board of Health
that wants to know why The low
er house of the legislature in the course
of its attack of Investigation fever is
anxious TO take lot of physicians and
examine the unfortunates confined in
the Kalihi Receiving Station who are
suffering with leprosy or suspected to
be stricken with that disease. When
President Pinkham of the Board of
Health was informed that the Health
Committee desired to examine one of
learning that the object was to examine
not only the one suspect but all the
ready been declared leprous by the ex-
amining physicians he refused permits
for any such wholesale examination.
In this course he was fully sustained
by the board at yesterday afternoons
session.
The board also came back at the
House with a resolution asking that
body to state it's reasons for wishing
to examine leprous persons at the Re
ceiving Station contrary to law. The
members of the board expressed them
selves as perfectly willing to assist the
House in its work in every way possi-
BILE but were rather annoyed at the
action of that body in demanding an
opportunity to examine leprous per-
sons who have already been subjected
to a searching examination and found
to be infected with the disease and
outside physicians on suspects who
have not asked or desired such an ex-
animation
PRESIDENTS STATEMENT
The Board of Health met in the Ka-
puaiwa building at p. m. yesterday.
There were present President Pink
ham, Drs. Cooper and Mays, NJ. P.
Robinson, I. Fernandez and Attorney
General Andrews. After the reading
and approval of the minutes of the
last session. President Pinkham read
his statement as follows:
Wednesday, March %, 1905.
To the Members of the Board of
Health.
/ herewith hand you the report OF
Superintendent McVeigh on the petit
tian of l.. Kamealoha, which he recon-
mends be refused.
The report of the Food Commission
er for January is submitted.
l hand you correspondence with DR..
A. Brinton of Paris, France, relative
to a specific for the cure of leprosy.
DIR. Brinton, after receiving our per-
mission, has sent a quantity of this
medicine, free of charge, and offers to
supply the remedy in larger quantl-
ties. also free of charge. l would not
pass an opinion on its value, although
he makes strong claims.
I submit herewith a communication
from Hon. H L. Holstein, chairman OF
the Leprosy Committee of the House of
Representatives, relative to correspond
ence between the Board of Health and
DIR. Milton Rice of tnlo. This cor
respondence L place before you.
l also place before you my summary
of the reports, secured at your com
n!and. touching the treatment of four
leprous patients at the Hilo Quaran-
tine Station. by DR.. Milton Rice.
I also submit a communication from
the House of Representatives, relative
to the taking by the Health Committee
of the House of three physicians, OF
their own selection, for the purpose of
making examination of the leper sus-
meets now detained in said Receiving
Station.
About two O'Clock. the afternoon of
the 2lst instant. yesterday. l was IN
formed the House Committee desired
10 cancel their engagement to meet
the Board and proposed to proceed to
Kalihi Receiving Station 10 examine
one. Mrs. Makanui. To this assent
ed as matter of courtesy Later l
learned the object was to examine all
leprous persons therein detained. There
upon I declined TO issue any permits
to enter the Receiving Station.
There are now detained at the Re
ceiving Station but four leper suspects;
George Mahiai. Mary Akakao, Lee Len
and Telamoto.
There are some twenty declared Ie7-
ers detained At Kalihi Receiving sta
ton that have been examined under
the regulations of the Board Of Health
and final determination of their cases
reached but held ont of courtesy to
the House Of Representatives.
The President of the Board Of Health