The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-11
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fgaHhf. for a term not to exceed six
gnonths;
THAT such food and accommoda-
tions as he may in reason desire be
granted him, and that at the expira-
ton of the said six months. the said
J. Lor Wallach may be permitted TO
choose two licensed physicians, the
Board of Health two, and they TO
choose a fifth, who shah examine said
persons declared by the Board of
Health to be lepers. and, after exam
ination, TO take a report to your hon
orable body as to whether said persons
treated by said J. Lor Wallach as
above are afflicted with the disease OF
leprosy or not, or whether such I'M
provement has been made as TO war
rant an extension of time 10 said j.
Lor Wallach 10 effect cure
PINKHAM'S STRAIGHT TALK.
President Pinkham asked that DR..
wayson take the chair in order to al
low him to make a statement regard
ing the matter. His statement was as
follows:
II think that the public health is a
matter above politics. 1 do not think
that any exception can be taken 10
this The treatment of disease is a
matter of scientific learning and ex-
pertinent. So far as Wallach is con-
cerned, he has appeared several times
in this office and made several re-
! quests to be allowed TO treat lepers,
s-but the only evidence he has ever pre-
sented to me of his cures was box of
salve, of which he partook TO prove it
innocuous. 1 told him that I had no
authority TO grant the request, and as
the Board of Health was in constant
receipt of cures we could do nothing
but consider his on its merits if he
wanted TO submit it. 1 have here a
remedy sent us from Paris, another
from Chicago; have letter from
scientists in Germany, who are prepar-
ing a serum as a result of four years
experiments in Turkey. The only cure
I have from anyone who says he has
had the Ieprosy is from man in Ka-
uai, who used Ayers hair vigor.
Il have correspondence from Ishii,
a Japanese druggist here, who sends
in his prescription, and a report from
DR.. Goodhue, who states that the vari-
Gus drugs included are already in use
at the Settlement. being successful so
far as. removing in some cases the ex-
terna1. evidences of the disease. This
morning I received from Consul Cam
avarro another cure for leprosy, and
tremedy, sent me by doctor in Ko-
fiaIa. 1 have another remedy here,
sent in from Benson, Smith & Co. I
do not know what is in it, but it is
said to be Wallach's medicine. In my
!. collection I have also what are said to
be female rocks. Perhaps they are the
same as wallach uses"
Let me have a look at them," broke
in wallach,i request which was COM
piled with, Pinkham adding as he
handed them over: Perhaps you will
show us how you use them"
Wallach took advantage of the open
ing he had made to put series of
questions to the speaker, making the
Inference that the board was DESTROYS
of sending as many persons as possible
to Molokai.
Now, no one thinks tnat this board
wants to send anyone to Kalaupapa,
said Pinkham ''Three-quarters of the
patients who have been examined in
the last three years have come in here
of their own accord. The Hawaiians
have come TO know that the board is
anxious TO do all that is possible for
them and trying to protect them and
their feelings as much as possible.
Hence the charge that this board
wants to put anyone in Kalaupapa is
an insult to the members Of the Board
of Health. 1 do not know anything
about the cures that Wallach has
claimed TO have made. In this office
a short time ago he stated that ne
had cured 205 cases, before the Gov
ernor he said that the number OF cases
was 209 How many among these were
lepers I do not know. / consider tnat
ii is up to petitioners to put the ooard
in touch with some of these alleged
patients before they go making pom
tics of the question or asking us 10
take up a position that viii make us
ridiculous. The board must have some
evidence TO go upon. You claim that
you have the evidence, but you pre-
sent none of 1t. 1t is making a parody
of the Board of Health to ask US 10
surrender every element of SOUND Juus-
nent and intellectual capacity and 10
turn over any leper to that man.
Statements have been made by MN
that are absolutely incorrect. He mas
stated that 1 have connived in escapes
from the Kalihi station. To my knoWl-
edge there have only been three es-
capes from the station. TWO or THESE
were japanese. one of whom escaped
through a breach of good faltn on
the part of Editor Shiozawa. state
his name so that he may have the Iuli
benefit of it. Another was Japanese