The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-04-06

Gates, the police arrest them.
Your committee find policeman, In
the employ of the Police Department
who has am office in the same cottage
with Doctor Cooper and seems to be
I'm fun charge and control of all the
women I'm Iwilei The President Of the
Board OF Health stated before the COM
mittee that it had no one to represent II
in Iwilei outside OF a Sanitary mspec-
tor whose name is Manuel Silva.
We find that the Police officer, Paul
Smith. is wearing Board Of Health
badge. and stated that ne represented
the Board of Health as its agent or in
spector and this has also been corro-
borated by Doctor Cooper. Mr.. Pink
ham. President of the Board of Health
stated that he had nothing to do with
any appointment or any of the work.
ings as far as the physicians i'm Iwilei
were concerned. but the evidence Of
Doctor Hoffman I'm applying by tele-
phone for blank certificates shows that
he doctor Homman) was informed by
someone representing the Board of
Health from the Board of Health office
that the Iwilei matter was all i'm the
hands of Doctor Cooper, and that he
was the one to see, and further find
that Paul Smith as agent Of the Board
of Health and Police officer receives
$40 per month from the Police Depart
ment and $50 per month from Doctor
Cooper. and as the agent Of the Board
of Health serves without pay as far as
Your Committe can ascertain, but is
1, aIg a. oil
ers Of the Board of Health.
From this evidence it would appear
that the president Of the Board Of
Health is reckless in his statements,
does not know when he makes an APP
pointment or know about any particu-
lar rules as to the appointment of ply
sicians under the Board of Health or,
he may have a convenient memory.
(2) BY who or whom are such eXa-
limitations made?
Your Committee find that the exa-
limitations made i'm Iwilei are made by
one physician only, Doctor c. b. Coop
er.
CD What charges are made for such
examinations? And what is the amount
collected per day, week, month or year?
And what disposition is made of the
money so collected?
Your committee find that Doctor
| Cooper charges 81 per week for each
woman examined, and also find that
there are at the present time about,
stated by Doctor Cooper to be 12S, and
stated by Paul Smith to be 129 women
at present examined each week, but
your committee find that in some cases
only three examinations are made per
month If four examinations are made
say on the basis Of 1919 women per
week, we find that Doctor Cooper col
lects about $512 per month per month,
but if only three examinations are made
we find that he collects about 1884 per
month or on an average about $3.50
per month. This revenue so collected
your committee fpds goes to Doctor
Cooper for his own personal use and
benefit. Although i'm the early part of
such examinations Doctor Cooper acted
as a Sanitary Police Commissioner ap-
pointed as such by the High Sheriff, we
fail to find where any moneys collect
ed by him, as such, have ever been
turned into the government as gov
eminent realization.
(D Are such prostitutes obliged to
live in any one particular portion of
Iwilei? If not, have not such pros
titutes been ordered i'm the near flu
ture to live i'm one particular portion of
Iwilei? And if So by whom ordered
and who are the owner or owners of
such particular portion of Iwilei?
Your committee find that the High
Sheriff Of the Territory through his
agents has ordered all of such women
that are found i'm different parts of the
city, and also i'm some portions Of Iwi-
lei to move to one particular part as
follows on the makai side of the Iwi-
lei rice mill, and on the Eva side of
the Iwilei road.
From further Investigations we find
that the rules and regulations as laid
down by the High Sheriff requiring
these unfortunate women to live i'm the
one particular portion of Iwilei here
inbefore referred to is, in the judg-
ment of your committee, unWarranted
for the following reasons:
In the section so set apart rooms
rent at from six to eight dollars per
month, while across the road on the
Waikiki side of Iwilei road, rooms rent
for two and half dollars per month,
and a little further up the road, rooms
can be had at from one and half dol
lars to two dollars per month, the own
ers of which are not able to rent the
same even at that price.
Your committee sees no reason why
the High Sheriff should so discriminate
in favor of one person in Iwilei to the
disadvantage of another. and more so
on account of the fact that the portion
so laid out has not been used so extern
sively for the immoral purpose of these
women as the premises on the Waikiki
side of the Iwilei road, and also lit
tie further up the road which he wishes
to close w.
Your committee cannot believe that
this is done for any moral reason as
there are a few families living on the
Eva side adjoining the particular por-
ton so set out, while on the Waikiki