The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-03-16

creation of another medical examining
board There are already three
If a candidate passes an examination
satisfactorily to the board ne is
authorized TO practice medicine and
amply any treatment he may deem best
including the methods OF osteopathy.
Il he is not d graduate of reputable
medical college, and cannot pass salts
factory examination in the usual
branches of medical education, he
ought not to be licensed to engage in
the practice of medicine"
In Kentucky, Judge Toney of Lou s.
willie. declared o.teopathists could be
prosecuted under the existing laws. In
Iowa it has been brought out that the
osteopathists, although disclaming
the use. of drugs and having made
claims that their treatment preclude0
the necessity of giving medicine, a. e
now demanding the right to use ii.
This lets out the whole secret says
the Medical journal. They are SIM
ply trying to legitimatize diploma
mills, trying to open a short cut to the
medical profession, or one that re-
quires no qualifications which ignor-
ance cannot overcome
DIR. C. B. Wood said that no argu-
llleHIS were HcSocu ny IlSlIlOSIS VI Tie
medical profession TO convince them
that the Dickey law would open the
gates here to a flood of quacks of all
kinds. 1t was an opening wedge in the
barrier raised up here to maintain a
high standard in the medical profess
sion
Drs. Herbert Walters, Mays aud 9TH
ers spoke in a similar strain. w. O.
struction he placed upon the wording
in the bill was that it gave every OPP
portunity for quacks to thrive here.
The matter was finally referred to
the Committee on Legislation compris-
ing Drs. Cooper, Mays and Day, with
Drs Wood and Herbert added, to draw
up resolutions opposing the osteopathy
bill with power to act in comforting
with the members of the Health Com
mittees in the Senate and House TO pre-
vent the passage of the bill. Mr.. Smith
said he did not believe the Governor
would approve such a bill, even if it
passed the Legislature.
Mr.. Smith showed the bills on medi-
cal subjects which have been introduce
ed in the Legislature. Among them
was Senate Bill 6S, relating to leprosy.
1nlS- provinces 1OT d SuSD6Clcu pSISOil
TO be taken before a District Magis-
trate, etc. DR.. Cooper said substitute
was being prepared to this, the Lane
bill, which he thought would avoid
some of the dangers.
Senate Bill 20, relating to Chinese
sprinllling clothes, was deemed good
one. but W. o. Smith said the Supreme
Court in 1898 declared it unconstitu-
tional to prevent Cinnamon from sprin-
king clothing in that manner.
They have a bill up now preventing
a man from splitting anywhere in the
Territory" said DR.. Wood, dryly. II
should think in that case they would
surely stop a Chinaman from splitting
all over our shirt bosoms.
The question of cemeteries in the city
limits came up. Mr.. Smith thought an
expression of opinion on the subject
should be voiced. DR.. Wood and DR..
Cooper gave instances where collins in
the present cemeteries could not be
lowered in the water-flled graves and
people had to stand on them while
earth was thrown in. In one instance
holes were bored in the bottom of the
coffin to make the work of sinking it
easier. A resolution, presented by DR..
Cooper, seconded by DR.. Herbert, was
passed, as follows:
Resolved, That in the opinion of the
Medical Society that it is important
that additional cemetery accommoda-
tions be provided for the city of Ho
nolulu.''
The resolution also incorporated the
views of the Board of Health President,
in his annual report, which calls for
government control and ownership of
cemeteries.