Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-08-13
LEAH| HOME IS
AFTER SUBSIDY
Wants County To Pay
IS Cents A Day Per
Patient

The trustees of Leahi Home have
addr essed letter to the Board of
Supervisors stating that unless the
County consents to pay contribu
tion of rs cents patient per day,
the number of patients allowed from
this county will have to be limited.
The letter is in full as follows:
Honolulu, August 10th, 1907.
To the Supervisors, County of Oahu.
Gentlemen:-Th undersigned, be
ing a committee appointed by the
trustees of the Leahi Home, desire to
lay before you the following facts in
connection with that Hospital.
Ia The fixed income available
for the care of patients at the Leahi
Home is derived from two sources,
viz, government appropriation and
interest from the investment of the
endowment fund This fixed income
amounts at present to:
Government appropriation, $500
per annum; Endowment Fund,
$500. Total $4,000.
go After keeping careful sta
tistics of expenses at the Home for
the last four or five years, it has been
ascertained that the cost amounts to
Just about $1.00 per day per capita,
so that the income as shown above is
available for the care of "a free
patients.
Co The Home has accommoda-
lions for so patients, and is capable
of great enlargement. 1t is the only
place in Honolulu available for the
care of patients suffering from tn.
berculosis, of which there are so
many at the present time, and the
resources of the Home are all the
time being taxed considerably beyond
their limits. During the present year
the number of free patients has run
up as high as SO and 80, and there
are at present 81 patients on the
free list.
(d) This state of matters can
not continue, and the result will in
evitably be that the number of free
patients at the Home must be limited
to "a, as shown under Section (b) q.
unless additional funds can be Sc
cured.
(e) At the present time the
counties of Maui and Hawaii, recog-
nizing that the income of the Home
must be increased by voluntary sub.
scription if the number of patients
now being cared for is to be con-
tinued, are contributing 75c per day
for each patient sent out by them to
the Home TIE Counties of Oahu
and Kauai have, however, refused up
to the present to pay anything fol
their patients. The trustees now
feel that it is necessary that the
Counties of Oahu and Kauai should
contribute, as well as the Counties
Of Maui and Hawaii, otherwise, in
fairness to the Counties of Maui and
Hawaii, their subscriptions should
not be received.
tf) If the Counties do not con-
tribute, then the humber of free pa
tients at the Home must be limited
to the present income, and each
county must be allowed to send free
patients to the Home in proportion to
the amount of Government. appropri-
alton applicable to it, This will re-
suit in seriously cutting down the
number of free patients allowed to
the County of Oahu and will throw a
great many patients back on the
Board of Health who otherwise could
have been taken in at the Home.
We recognize that the majority of
cases offered to the Home must nat
urally come from the Island of Oahu,
and that probably many of the Oahu
cases are patients from the other
Islands who have drifted into Homo
lulu. We feel, however, that the
Oahu County ought to contribute for
the care VI oOiHc VI IlS icc pdbich'S
at the Home, and would suggest that
Oahu pay for five patients at the
rate of 75c per day, so that we can
assure the other counties that Oahu
is paying it's proportion, and con-
tinue to receive from them subscrip-
lions for the patients whom they
send. If this can be arranged we
would be willing that the Board of
Supervisors should have the naming
of five free patients at the Home, in
addition to those received through
the Board of Health.
The undersigned would respectful
ly request that, after this letter has
heen copsidered thew bA given an