Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-04-02
SCHOLAR EXAM.
Bill Is KILLED
Indefinite POStpODement
Recommended By
Committee

Kalciopu's House Bill lIg. proyid-
ing for the appointment by the Edu-
cation Department OF % medical In.
spcctur. died quiet death In the
Senate this forenoon Two meas
urcs to provide for medical inspcr-
ton In the schools wprc introduced
In the House. One was that of Ku-
lciopu, the other by Alawa. Kuloi-
opus measure, which was favored
by the Education Department but
not by the Board of Health. survived
the three necessary readings In the
House. and got up In the Senate,
where IL passed the pcrrunctory first
reading by title.
Today the bill came mp for second
reading. but died % quiet death
through strong dose of chloroiorm
administered to It by the following
report of the Education Committee:
Your Education Committee, to
which was referred House Bill No.
/ lI9. entitled AN Act to provide for
| a medical inspector Of public
schools" have had the same under
consideration.
Your committee find that there Is
| u very strong public sentiment
against the passage Of this Act; that
the duties prescribed in the bill are
now performed by the Government
physicians aud that carrying out the
provisions of the Act would create Il
great additional expense which your
committee feel Is not justified by the
conditions prevailing in the schools.
Matters of public health, your
committee feel, are safe in the hands
of the present Board Of Health and
your committee further find that a
considerable portion of the bill as
presented Is missing and the bill Is
therefore incomplete and we recon-
mend It's indefinite postponement.
An Act to Provide for a Medical In
spcctOr of Public Schools.
BE It Enacted by the Legislature OF
the Territory of Hawaii:
Section /. The Department of Pub
lie instruction Is hereby authorized to
appoint a Medical Inspector to hold
Office during its pleasure and to re-
ceivo such compensation as the De-
partmcnt may fix. Such appointcu
shall he physician duly licensed tn
practice medicine and surgery within
the Territory.
Section 2.-It shall be the duty OF
the Medical Inspector under the direc'
ton of the Department to visit At
least once every year each public
school In the Territory, to examine the
children In such schools for the pur-
pose OF determining their health and
physical condition, to reduce the re-
suits of such examination TO writing
furnishing each child examined win
one copy, filing one copy with the
teacher In charge of such school, and
filing one copy with the Department
he shall also advise with and Instruct
the teachers regarding matters ol
hygiene and sanitation and as to the
proper method of treatment for minol
injuries, and when directed by the
Department shall address teachers
meetings on the same or similar sub
jects lie shall perform such Other
duties as the Department may requir,
of him.
Section 3. No Medical Inspector ap'
pointed under the provisions of THU
/ Act shall while holding such Office en-
gage In private practice Of his PROBES
sion, nor shall anything IN this Act
contained authorize or empower sucl
Inspector to prescribe for and trca
generally any public school children
q. A TlI.. Act Ghall tulga ait'ag