The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-10-11
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THAT he. the said ]. Lor Wallach
may be permitted TO treat said persons
afflicted with leprosy at the Receiving
! Station of the Board of Health, al
Kalihi, for a term not to exceed six
months;
That such food and accommoda-
| lions as he may in reason desire be
granted him, and that at the expira-
ton of the said six months, the said
]. Lor Wallach may be permitted to
choose two licensed physicians, the
Board of Health two, and they to
choose fifth, who shall 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 ]. 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 to said ].
Lor Wallacb TO effect a cure
PINKHAMS STRAIGHT TALK.
President Pinkham asked that DIR.
wayson take the chair in order to al
low him to make a statement regard
ing the matter. His statement was as
follows:
Il think that the public health is a
matter above politics. 1 do not think
that any exception can be taken to
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,
but the only evidence he has ever pre-
sented TO me of his cures was a box of
salve, of which he partook To prove it
innocuous. 1 told him that 1 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. I have here a
remedy sent US from Paris, another
from Chicago; 1 have a letter from
scientists in Germany, who are prepar-
ing a serum as result of four years
experiments in Turkey. The only cure
have from anyone who says he has
had the leprosy. is from a man in Ka-
uai, who used Ayers hair vigor.
II have correspondence from Ishii,
a japanese druggist here, who sends
in his prescription, and report from
DR.. Goodhue. who states that the vari-
Gus drugs included are already in use
ar the Settlement, being successful so
far as removing in some cases the ex-
ternal evidences of the disease. This
morning 1 received from Consul Can
avarro another cure for leprosy, and
1 have also received another japanese
remedy, sent me by a doctor in Ko-
hala. 1 have another remedy here,
sent in from Benson, Smith & Co.
do not know what is in it, but it is
said to be Wallach's medicine. In my
collection l have also what are said to
be female rocks. Perhaps they are the
same as Wallach uses"
Let me have look at them" broke
in Wallach, a 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 a 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 that 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 I
Of their own accord. The Hawaiians !
have come to know that the board is |
anxious to do all that is possible for |
lhcli llg plOltCl llSlI
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 |
IF Health. 1 do not know anything !
about the cures that Wallach has
claimed to have made. In this office |
4 short time ago he stated that he
had cured 205 cases, before the Gov
srnor he said that the number of cases
vas 209. How many among these were |
epers I do not know. 1 consider that |
[ is up to petitioners to put the board |
n touch with some of these alleged
patients before they go making poll
les of the question or asking us to
AXE up a position that will make us
'idiculous. The board must have some
to go upon. You claim that
you have the evidence. but you pre-
ent none of it. 1t is making a parody
If the Board of Health to ask US to
every element of sound judg-
nent and intellectual capacity and to
urn over any leper to that man.
Statements have been made by him
hat are absolutely incorrect. He has
tated that have connived in escapes
rom the Kalihi station. To my knowl-