The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-03-31
THE NEW
BILL LEPER

ton of lepers submitted by different
members during the present session
of the Legislature. Many of these COW
erred the same ground and select
committee was appointed to go over
them. The result has been the prepara-
ton of a bill which will be considered
in Committee OF the Whole today.
The bill is as follows:
HOUSE BILL NO. 17s.
An Act amending sections 1122, 1923
and 1126. chapter "a of the Revised
Laws Of Hawaii relating to Leper Set
Element and hospitals and adding
new section thereto.
Be 1t enacted by the Legislature OF
the Territory of Hawaii:
Section l. Section 1922. Chapter "a
of the Revised Laws of Hawaii Is here
by amended so as to read as follows:
Section 1922. Lepers, Confinement.
The Board of Health or its agents are
authorized and empowered to cause to
be isolated and confined in some place
or places for that purpose provided all
persons suffering with leprosy, who
shall be deemed capable Of spreading
that disease; and it shall be the duty
of each District Magistrate when prop
-erly applied to for that purpose, by the
Board of Health, or its authorized
agents, to issue to such person cita-
ton ordering him to appear at a time
and place therein to be specified, then
and there to show cause why he should
not submit to a medical examination
for the purpose of determining whether
or not he is suffering from leprosy and
capable of spreading that disease, and
in the event that such person shall fail
to appear in answer to such citation,
said District Magistrate shall cause the
arrest of such person and his delivery
to the Board of Health or its agents;
and it shall be the duty of the High
Sheriff of the Territory of Hawaii,
and his deputies and of the police OFF,
GERS to assist in securing the convey
ance of any person so cited or arrest
ed to such place as the Board of Health
or its agents may direct, in order that
such person may be subjected to medi-
cal inspection, and thereafter to assist
in removing such person to place OF
treatment or isolation If so required
by the agents of the Board of Health.
Provided, however that such medical
inspection shall in all cases be made
with the least possible delay after such
citation or arrest as aforesaid:
Section 2. A new section Is hereby
added to said Chapter "a as follows:
Section 1122A. With the least posi-
BILE delay after the citation or arrest
of person having leprosy as prcvid-
ed for in Section 1922 hereof, the Board
of Health shall cause the person so
cited or arrested to be examined by
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censed to practice medicine in the Ter
ritory of Hawaii; the person so cited
A. or arrested shall have the right to Sc
lect one member of this committee, the
Board of Health shall select another,
and the two so selected shall select a
third In the event that such commit
tee SO selected as aforesaid shall find
that the person so examined as afore-
said is not capable of spreading the
disease of leprosy,' the Board of Health,
with the least possible delay shall al
low such person to return to his home
and shall provide transportation for
him to the place where he was arrest
ed. But in case said committee shall
find that the person so cited or arrest
ed is suffering from leprosy and Is
capable of spreading that disease, said
person so examined as aforesaid, shall
be sent to the Hospital provided for in
this Act, and shall there remain until
cured or until declared incurable and
capable of spreading the disease of
leprosy as provided in this Act.
Section 8. Section 1923, Chapter "a
of the Revised laws of Hawaii is here
by amended so as to read as follows:
Section 1923. Concealing Lepers
Penalty. Whoever shall knowingly de-
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to his control or shall in any manner
conceal or secrete, or assist in conceal
ing or secreting any person afflicted
with leprosy and capable of spreading
that disease, with the intent that such
person be not discovered by or deliver
ed to the Board of Health, or its
agents: or who shall support or assist
in supporting any person having lepro-
sy and capable of spreading that dis
ease living in concealment, shall be
deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and
SHALL on conviction thereof, before the
District Magistrate in the District
where such misdemeanor was COM
mitted be liable to fine of not more
than one hundred dollars.
Section 4. Section 1926, Chapter "a
of the Revised Laws of Hawaii is here
by amended so as to read as follows:
Section 1126. Hospital The Board of
Health shall, within six months from
the date when this Act takes effect es-
tablish hospital at the Receiving Sta
ton, Kalihi. Island of Oahu, where
persons who have been declared to be
1epers and capable of spreading the
disease of leprosy, in accordance with
this Act, may be treated in order to
attempt a cure of said disease. The
Board of Health shall appoint a resi-
dent physician and one or more assist
ant physicians to take charge of said
hospital and to treat the inmates there
of in order to attempt a cure of said
disease. All such inmates receiving
such treatment as aforesaid shall be
confined to the limits OF said hospital
during such treatment but shall be all
lowed to receive visits from their rela-
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