The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-10-25
BOARD OF HEALTH
WANTS EVIDENCE
REFUSES TO ALLOW LOR WAL
ZACH TO TREAT LEPERs UNTIL
is IT SUPPLIED.


Settled" the Wallach matter. That
is, by very positive vote the body at
its meeting yesterday afternoon turn
ed down a resolution tC let Or" Wal
ZACH experiment on certain lepers
from the Molokai settlement. without
first furnishing evidence that he can
do something beneficial. Nobody out
side of the Board, if indeed they them
selves do, believes that the matter is
any more settled now than it was be-
fore they votoI this last time on the
question; in fact from the demonstra-
ton and the harrangue made in the
hallway of the Board of Health Guild
ing after the meeting had adjourned,
by Charlie Motley, the Home Rule
leader, it would seem that it had only
just begun.
They haven't settled anything
said Jack McVeigh, superintendent. OF
the Settlement, referring to the Board
after the meeting, Unless l miss my
guess the thing has only just nicely
started"
When the matter came Il a vote, at
ter there had been expressions from
all of the members, only DR. Wayson
and David Kalauokalani, .,r, Tile one
Hawaiian member, supported it. Dr.
Baldwin, c. Il. Hemenway. Mack P.
Robinson, AMI F. c. Smith all voteu
against it, and President Pinkbam,
who didn't vote. had sufficiently ihii-
Gated his views to show that he sided
with the majority side
The meeting was devoted almost en-
tirely to the consideration of the WAL
ZACH affair. AS soon as the minutes OF
the previous meeting had been read
President Pinkham's message, as pub
lished in yesterdays Star, was read as
Well as the resolutions passed by the
mass meeting at Aala Park last Sat
urday night, and the petition from Mo-
lokai, signed by 527 lepers.
The resolutions of the Aala Park
meeting have been given before in
substance, they are vOluminous ana
abound in numerous citations of laws
relative to medicine generally and Oh
leprosy in particular, and demand that
Wallach be allowed to treat for six
months a number of patients selected
for the purpose, who have been exam
ined by committee of practicing ply
sicians, two of which to be appointed
by the Board of Health, two by Wal
ZACH, and fifth by the four already
selected. The same committee to pass
upon the cures" at the end of the
time"
The Kalaupapa petition was very
moderate in tone and asked simply
that Wallach be given a chance to try
his alleged remedies on a number OIL
such sufferers who might be willing to
submit themselves absolutely to Wal
ZACH, and relieve the Board of any
responsibility whatever for any conse-
quences Of the trial
Pinkham then made a short state
ment of his trip to Molokai last week,
and of his reception there. He saiu
that the people of the Settlement were
amenable to reason, which the mass
of Hawaiians outside are not. Hel
stated that the sufferers at Kalaupapa
had Indignantly repudiated the state
ments that Pinkham would not be safe
in visiting the Settlement, and stated
that during his stay there he had slept
in Superintendent McVeigh's house
without the doors being locked or 9TH
er precautions taken to guard himself.
He declared, however, that the Board
should not be insulted by demands OF
a man like Wallach, that he be given
free rein, without any proof that he
had ever made any of the cures he
had claimed he had. In other words
the Board was from Missouri and must
be shown. Pinkham stated that ne
had just received a sample of virus by
the hands of DIR, Brinckerhoff, who
had just returned from the mainland,
which was supposed to have some
value in curing leprosy. 1t was the
of two German physicians
whose experiments have been carried
On in Turkey for a number of years.
The whole result of their experiments
and discoveries, he said, were given in
details in the letters and pamphlets
which had been sent him There was
no attempt at secrecy, and any honest
man would do as these men have done.
Tne Board has a right to demand of
Wallach some proof, some franl1ness
IN his part.
Mark P. Robinson, VINO had not had
A chance to speak at the last meeting
of the sudden adjournment,
laid that he would not consent to let
Wallach operate until he could show
iome tangible evidence of his ability
% make good his claims, other than
~ his mere statements. He as well
IS others who followed him, spoke of
he sympathy he felt for the fepers
It the Settlement, but didn't think it