Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-11-21
DOCTORS OVERLOOK
Health ADV|(ES
Fourteenth Session Of
MediCoS Closes
With Banquet
MEETING WAS WELL ATTENDED
AND IMPOR TANTPAPERS READ
DR.. HOFFMAN, DOES NOT FAVOR
ABOllSHlNG THE QUARAN.
TINE AGAINST COAST
BOATS.

With an elaborate banquet where
all kinds Of rich and delicious food.
stuffs and elegant wines were served
and for the time being all surgeons
that attended the annual meeting of
the Hawaiian Territorial Medical SO.
ciety, and read. listened to and dis.
cussed the important question of indi.
| gestion, overlooked their good advice
last night and the session came to
close in the grill.room of the Alexan.
der Young Hotel.
Members at the banquet sat about
an oval shaped table, decorated with
red carnations, yellow cereopsis and
asparagus plumosa sprayed over the
napery. Red.shaded candelabra com.
pleted pretty decorative scheme. DR..
Wayson, the new president, occupied
the seat of honor Opposite him was
DIR. Armitage. Other guests were Drs.
Taylor, Wood, Rossiter. Day, Emerson.
Vladimir RUSSIAN Navy, Hodgins,
West, Peterson. Mclean, Rogers, Hal.
da. Katsuki, Pratt, Hoffman,, Judd.
Bond, Cofer, Humphris, Sheldon Her.
bert Ramus Mays, Baldwin, Kobaya.
shi, Mori. Mitamura, Moore, Cooper.
Mcdonald, James and Mr.. Pnkham.
Music was furnished during the even.
ing by the Nainoa Quintet Club.
Tho nTfnEnnAn
in hearing discussions and the read.
ing OF papers on medical subjects. Az.
terward there was an election of Off.
GERS for the ensuing year. The doctors
selected to serve at the head of the
organization are as follows: Presi.
dent, DR.. J. 7. Wayson; vice president,
DR.. Edward Armitage of Waikiki, Ma
,ui; secretary, DIR. A. n. Sinclair; exec.
Iutive committee: Drs. George Herbert
and w. L. Taylor.
The committee appointed to confer
with the Governor and the President
of the Board OF Health relative to the
| filtration of water in the Nuuanu val.
ley reservoir after the resolution print.
ed in yesterdays Bulletin was passed,
will consist OF DR.. C. b. Wood, chair.
man; Dr. A. n. Sinclair and DR.. Bald.
win.
The question of quarantine against
steamers from the Coast as now In eff.
feet was brought before the body by
DR.. Hoffman,. From DR.. Cofer he had
gathered the facts that the Govern
ment quarantine health officials here
had found eight cases of leprosy, two
of scarlet fever, nine of measles, one
chickenpoX case, and three suffering
from smallpox on ships from the main.
land. The city would have been eX-
posed to these contagious diseases had
1t not been for DR.. Cofer's men.
Surgeon Vladimir of the Russian aux
iliary cruiser Lena attended the after.
noon session. He was in full dress
uniform. DR.. Armitage greeted him
and conversed with him in French.
The Russian surgeon was introduced
to President Mcdonald, when he ad.
dressed the society briefly.
The following papers were read:
Acquired Race Immunity" DR.. Carl
Ramus. U. S. Marine Hospital Service;
'Purulent Inflammation of the Middle
Ear and Mastoid Cells" DR.. w. G. Rog-
ers, Honolulu; Injuries of Bones, Mus
Giles and Ligaments and Their Treat
ment by Massage and Movement" DR..
Edward Armitage. Waikiki, Maui;
Constipation: Its Cause, Effects and
Treatment DR.. +. Howard Humphris,
Honolulu; "Beriberi and Some of Its
Clinical Aspects from Personal Obser-
walton" DR.. c. B. Cooper, Honolulu;
Hawaiian Fever and Typhoid FeveN
by Drs. Mort, Uchida and Kuramoto
was read by DR.. Mort, Honolulu.
Papers of DR.. Ramus, Dr. Rogers
and DR.. Armitage produced much dis.
cussion on their technical features.
DR., Humphris developed consider.
able discussion by reading a paper on
electricity treatments in general. The
papers were looked upon as especially
well prepared and of much advanced
thought and showed much study. The
paper by DIR. Mort referred to Hawai-
ian fever" so called. He and DR.. Ku.
ramoto displayed large collection of
culture tubes. The paper Of DR.. C. b.
Cooper caused an interesting discus
sion, which was the leading feature of
the afternoon.
DR., Rosster spoke of various cases
of beriberi which had come under his
notice, especially in Luzon. This
closed the fourteenth annual meeting
of the society.