The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-03-25
ALL WENT
TO COOPER
He Had a Monopoly OF
the Practice in
lWilei.

"AIl the women of Iwilei had the i'm
preston that DR.. Cooper was the gov
| eminent physician, and that they had
| to be examined by him. said Editor
| Shiozawa, of the Hawaii Shinpo, at
the meeting of the McCandless Iwil-i
special committee yesterday afternoon
| Shiozawa, in fact, was the star
| witness of the day. That is, his tes-
| timony gave the committeeman the
most promising line for profit that has
| been opened so far. Il stated in my
| paper that DR.. Cooper was not the
government physician went on the
| japanese editor, but they did not be-
lieve me. All of the circumstances
tended to the creation of this impress
sion in their minds. In the first place,
DR.. Cooper was appointed inspector of
| Iwilei. That appointment was after
wards revoked, but the women did not
understand the revocation. Then they
had been in the habit, in the old days,
of going to the office of the Board of
Health for examination. Well, under
the new order they said that the Board
of Health had established d branch of
flee on the ground for their convenience
and they we1t to Dr. Cooper. To
strengthen this impression was the fact
that DR. Cooper was a member of the
| Board of Health, giving him official
status.
The women did not complain particu-
larly of the price charged them, but
thought, as many women also came fo1
eXamina ton from the outside districts.
the rate should be lower. l was told
| by the Japanese headman down there
that the income from this source was
about $500 a month.
Yes, High Sheriff Henry told me
that the women could go to any doc
| tor they pleased, and some Japanese
| doctors made inquiry about it, but
| none of them cared to go there and
| compete with the government physi-
cian."
EX-High Sheriff Arthur Brown was
| the first witness of the day, and tolo
| how some clients of his had been Or
dered by the police department to
| move to Iwilei. That is, they had been
| told that they would be raided if they
did not get out of the downtown quar>
ter
Officer Paul Smith, in charge of Iwilei,
said that High Sheriff Henry had told
him the women We're to move into the
side of the corral where they now are,
| but had afterwards revoked that order.
saying that he had only acted until the
Legislature should take up the matter.
| He believed that the rents down there
We're collected by the Japanese boss,
Asoie but was not sure who owned the
property. He thought it was under
lease. The women on one side paid Sc
| per month for rooms. and on the other
$3.50. A g
No other doctor but Cooper had ask
ed the right to practice down there. He
had no power to grant any such right.
But he would recognize a certificate
from any reputable physician licensed
| to practice in this Territory. He had
never received any order to recognize
| no other doctor. He had never seen
| any other certificates save those of
| Cooper, but the women would be free
| to go to any other physician they chose.
| He did not believe the police could
| handle the women if they were scat
| tered throughout the city. He supposed
| it would be a discrimination against
property owners if they were not al
| lowed the same chance to rent their
| places as other men in a district given
over, as IwiIei was. to one class of
| peOple