The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-03-29

ton ordering him to appear at time
and place therein to be specified, then
and there to show cause why he should
hot submit TO 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 OIL
| 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 10 medi-
cal inspection, and thereafter TO assist
in removing such person to a 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-
of a person having leprosy. as provid-
ed for in Section 1922 hereof, the Board
of Health shall cause the person so
cited or arrested to be examined by
committee of three physicians duly IL
censed to practice medicine in the Ter
ritory of Hawaii; the person SO cited
or arrested shall have the right to Sc
1ect 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
perso.- 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 3. 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-
tain or harbor upon premises subject
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 a 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 Hawau.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 a hospital at the Receiving Sta
ton, Kalihi Island of Oahu, where
persons who have been declared to be
lepers and capable of spreading the
disease OF / prosy, in accordance with
this Act, may be treated in order to
attempt a cure of said disease. The
Board of Health shall appoint 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
such treatment as aforesaid shall be
confined to the limits of said hospital
during such treatment. but shall be al
lowed to receive visits from their rela-
tives and friends at proper times and
under proper regulations to be made
by the Board of Health in that regard.
Such regulations to allow such freedom
of intercourse between the inmates of
said hospital and their relatives and
friends as shall be considered by the
Board of Health proper and safe. Dur
ing the detention of such inmate in said
hospital as aforesaid, he shall elect to
be treated either by the physician in
charge of said hospital or by any ply
stefan licensed to practice medicine In
the Territory of Hawaii. Provided,
however. that in case such person shall
elect to be treated by a physician other
than those in charge of said hospital,
he shall bear all the expense of said
treatment At the end of a period not
greater than one year from the time
when such inmate shall enter said hos
pftal. or at intervals not greater than
one year thereafter such inmate shall
be examined by a committee of five
physicians. not less than two of whom
NAV be selected by such inmate and In
case it shall be found that such inmate
has been cured of the disease of lep-
rosy. so that he is incapable of spread
ing the same. he shall. without delay,
be allowed to go to his home and shall
be furnished transportation thereto by
the Board of Health. In case it shall
be found that such inmate has not been
cured of the disease of 1eprosy, but
that there is hone of such cure. such
inmate shall be detained for such other
period or periods as a committee con-
IN like manner as that herein-
time TO