The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-01-17
KAL|H| STATION
RECONSTRUCTION
tFrom Wednesdays Advertiser,

NEAOAA wednesday auNtTllSeI.l
Carpenters and painters are nearly
through with their work on the new
buildings at Kalihi receiving station
which, for their first use, are TO con-
stitute the temporary leprosarium of
j. Lor Wallach. Some permanent fit
tings are yet to be constructed. plumb
ing is to be, installed and, with the
simple furnishings. the buildings will
then be ready for occupancy. This will
be within a few weeks.
Arranged in a hollow square the
houses, in green stain and white trim
mings, make an attractive looking
group. An Advertiser reporter yester-
day accompanied President l.. E. Pink
ham of the Board of Health on a visit
to the place. The new structures are
located on the opposite side OF the
reservation from the old buildings.
Some of the latter have recently been
repaired and renovated, and with GER
tain new construction projected-some
of 1t already under way-in the old
compound, there will be harmonious
scheme of houses on four sides of a
spacious lawn. Dilapidated and de-
cayed buildings and fences will be
wiped away and the whole reservation
newly and neatly enclosed.
First of the apartments in the new
barracks, next to the entrance, is the
examination room. This is also to be
a photographing room. being fitted
with skylight for the purpose. Then
come two nurses rooms.
Following along a veranda Is found
a series OF five rooms for sanitary and
clinical uses. all of them having
cement wainscoting and floor to make
their cleansing a simple matter. They
are a lavatory containing abundance
of conveniences. drug room. clothes
changing room in two divisions. an
operating room and bath room for
patients.
Opening from a veranda nine feet
wide the dormitories for patients are
placed. There are twelve rooms in the
row, corresponding to the number of
subjects of the proposed Wallach
treatment. They are ten by twelve
feet in size and will be nicely furnish
ed with wardrobes and the necessary
conveniences of comfort. In the mid.
die of the row the veranda is sunk
to the back of the building, forming
a common dining roem fer The patients.
Where advisable az necessary, how
ever, meals will be served to individ-
uais In their rooms. An installation
OF laYatories also occupies the middle
section. At the extreme end of the.
row is linen room, The veranGa Will
be completely screened from Insects
with copper wire gauze. Iron mosquito
netting would last no time in the sea-
side atmosphere.
Extending at right angles from the
main section, and facing the series of
rooms first described, is a long covered
gallery screened on the outside with
lattice work. This leads to the Gull
nary department. THE kitchen has a
cement floor draining to the center in
TO a waste pipe perforated cap, so that
t can be washed off with facility by
means of hose. A dining room for
clean people faces the kitchen, Other
apartments In this Section are a store
'oom, bath room and rooms for cook
Ind assistant cook
There will be absolute segregation of
he hospital section from the living
IND cooking rooms of the attendants.
while in charge, will receive
he food of the patients from a deIiv-
ry board under a wide window OPEN
ng out OF the kitchen.
The various departments of the ex-
sting station were visited on this oc-
aston. Everything showed perfect
leanhness and order.
Workmen were preparing to erect
he frame of a matron's cottage in the
middle Of the lawn. This will have
Ugh windows from which the matron
VII have a clear lookout upon the
ormitories for women and children.
Or. P1nkham designed this building
flta a special view to securing COM
lete vigilance, and he hopes the res
ut will be an end, for good and ALI.
any cause for scandals such as
ave occasionally broken loose from
he institution.
Mr.. Pinkham stated that a small
team laundry w6bid be erected upon
he ground, the necessity for such a
onvenience having become Clearly evil
emit.
1ded the buildings used for that pur.
ose VIII revert to the ordinary func-
ons of the receiving station. Pos
bly,, with its improved equipments.
lie station will be used more as
ospitai than before, where learned
may perform services in
he with those of the fraternity en-
ICED at the Federal leprosarium
'out to be erected on MoIokai. Studies
merely suspected cases of the
sease might. in their way, prove of
much scientific value as those of
nfirmed cases. Skilled treatment
such would, at all events. prove a
against any mistaken con-
'nments of subjects to the Settle
mt at Kalaupapa-