The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-11-29
GREAT MIXUP
TAKES PLACE
OVER WALLACE
(From Thursdays Advertiserl

; at yesterdays conference of the Com
mittee of Ten with the Board of Health
What seemed to have been settled
at the like conference of last week be-
came very much unsettled whenever the
performance opened
When the curtain was rung down il
was for a continuation of the perform
ance next week
1t was Wallach's new conditions
signed by him >and presented by the
Ten, which upset everything. Readers
already know what the new stipulations
of the professed healer are-simply ~
that he, accompanied by three of that
committee, should be permitted to 60
to Molokai and pass upon the twelve
| patients to be selected by commit
tee of five physicians, and (2) that he
have key to the outer as well as
the inner gate of the Kalihi receiving
station.
For President Pinkham the first sur
prise was in store. After relating, in
his regular business message to the
board, the communications, written and
oral, which had passed between him
self and Chairman Lane upon the ques-
tion of amending the conditions, re
seemed to take for granted that the
Board would practically comply with
the amended conditions, at least so
far as giving Mr.. wallach selective
privileges were concerned. This is what
be said:
81 stated that Board had no wish
to force an unacceptable patient on
J. Lor Wallach and that he could re-
iect any presented to him by giving his
reasons in writing. The Board will
in my opinion submit the patients to
said Wallach before any examination
by FIVE physicians as the expense of
such examination would be saved in
case said Wallach elected TO reject such
patient.
"Other patients viii be presented TO
Mr.. Wallach until the STIPULATED twelve
are secured. provided such a number
voluntarily present themselves
Mr.. Pinkham, in opining what the
Board would do, evidently reckoned
without the other members of the ma
iority that his casting vote had CON
stituted last week. For here the fun
NY business started.
Or. Wayson. who had stood all along
for giving Wallach trial, now as
sumcd the demoanor of member OF
the Territorial Medical Association. He
stood up for the dignity of the purfesh.
Wallaeh, in asking TO be placed on an
equal footing with "iive reputable
physicians, had reached the limit. |
Therefore the doctor demanded n cate
gorical answer from Wallach s sponsors
as 10 whether or not the new eondi- |
tions were an ultimatum,
Mr.. Robinson, who had changed his
position with the president last week,
now emphatically denounced Wallach
as faker who did not desire to have
his claims tested.
Mr.. Kalauokalani even voted at the
to refuse Wallach hearing !,
On the other hand-and more fun to
1.-THE two out of the three irrecon-
cilable opponents of having the Board
have anything to do with Wallach now
as his champions. At least
they wanted the Board to treat Wal
ZACH with the respect due to him as
one of the Board s own licensed practi-
TONERS They stood alone in voting to
give Wallach personal hearing when
he had asked for it.
Mr.. Smith wanted to have Wallach
reated as a man.
Dr. Baldwin thought the Boards
icensee ought to be treated as a gen.
feman. His irony was little biting.
THE PROCEEDINGS.
The matter was introduced through
he message as stated. In the course
# the proceedings the correspondence
vas read
President Pinkham, on calling up the
BUSINESS for action, said it was up to
he Committee of Ten to present its
ase. The Board did not know Mr..
Vailach. 1t had dealt with the Com
nittee of Seven at the Settlement. He
lid not know whether the Board de- !
ired him to make a statement. He
ould make a statement of what oc- {
urred at the Settlement. I
"All I want to know" DR.. wayson g
Tarmly interjected, sis whether WAL 8
lch refuses to accept the conditions t
he is not allowed to visit the Set :
cement"
Senator Lane, chairman of the Ten, /
tarted to answer by referring to his
fficial reply to the presidents noti- T
cation of the agreement. Then he i
ave the now familiar reasons that O
ad influenced the committee In en-
orsing Wallach's new conditions. .
7allach thought it would be inhuman Il
} bring patients down here who might
ave to be sent back to Molokai in the G
7ent of his finding them unacceptable
n his treatment at Kalihi. After ;.
scussing the matter pro and con the :
,mmittee decided that the amend !.
ents requested were reasonable. :
DR.. Wayson said it mattered not a
neither Wallach visited the Settle :,
ent or not. Whether the patients
Id other diseases was a matter en- ..
rely to be decided by the physicians. :,
S a physician of the Board he had :
ways been willing to support the Ha-
aiians in their desires, but he now
ought It was going just little too !.
+ to ask that Wallach, and not the y
lysicians. should decide whether pa ~
ents had other diseases than leprosy. ID
'allach merely wanted to go to Molo- N
Ii to visit the Settlement and make 81
sensation as he had been trying to nj
all the time. 10
Il do not think" the doctor contin- q
d. you can get five reputable physi- tc
ans to consent to it. I have stood 81
: you all through" he said to Lane ca
ID the others. ''but If Wallach is to
!, allowed to dictate anything hel tn
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