The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-12-08
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(FrOm Saturdays Advertiser.)
The Board of Health members .goi
into the Board of Health ambulance
yesterday afternoon and rode up 60 the
property on Vineyard street adjoining
the Pauoa stream which has been Civ
ing them so much trouble recently, and
took a look over it and adopted reso-
luton to condemn the buildings on 1t
as insanitary.
There have been cases Of diphtheria,
plague and pretty nearly every other
contagious disease in these premises,
and the board has never been able to
get them put into condition that sat
isfed it as far as sanitary condition
went. The ownership of the property
is vested in number of different per
sons and these have never been able
to agree as to how the expense of put
ting the property in shape should be
shared. The property is not connected
with sewer and it ought to be, but
none of the owners will agree az to
how the expense of this shall be borne.
The matter has been before the board
for considerable time and the Attor-
ney General's department drew up the
necessary papers to enable the board
TO take the requisite action to have
the buildings all condemned as in.
sanitary. The members Of the board
went to the property yesterday in or
der that the statement in their resolu-
tion that they had seen the property
and the condition it is in would be
true.
Tenders for supplies for the Leper
Settlement and for the Insane Asylum
for the six months from January are
TO be advertised for and will be opened
December 90. There will be a meeting
of the board December 90 to take ac.
tion on these.
The people of Koolau to the number
of several hundred sent to the board
a letter highly appreciative of the
medical services rendered during the
past months among them by DR.. j. s.
b. Pratt. In this service DR.. Pratt last
month Travelled 244 miles, continued
treatment in fourteen old cases and re-
ceved twenty-eight new patients, and
made eight house visits, and nine Of
fee visits.
The report of lepers sent to the Set
.hn nf af
those who has been undergoing the
nastine treatment at the receiving sta
tion at Kalihi.
DR.. j. T. Wayson of the Committee
on Boys Home, reported conference
with Superintendent of Public lnstruc
tion Babbitt as to a working agreement
for the services of teacher of the
boys in industrial work, who is at the
same time to be an agent of the Board
of Health and superintendent of the in
stitution.
Applications were received for the
S position of matron of the Boys Home.
This matter will be settled at the meet
ing December %.
1t was reported that within the por-
ton of Honolulu in which the manufac-
ture of poi is prohibited by law pass
ed at the time of the cholera epidemic
in 1895, and never since repealed, there
are actually thirtyfour places where
the manufacture is carried on. This
portion of the city is approximately
that lying between Punahou street ex'
tended both ways, on the east, and
Houghtailing street, near the Kalihi
road on the west, and from the sea to
Wyllie street extended. Outside of this
region there are thirteen places where
poi is manufactured
1t was decided to report the matter
to the Attorney General and let him
wrestle with it.
President Robinson announced that
Food Commissioner Duncan and DR. j.
s. b. Pratt had gone to Hawaii on the
Mauna Loa to be gone two weeks
Their mission was to look into health
and sanitary matters, and particularly
to confer with plantation managers al
to the planning and sanitary arrange
ments of laborers' camps with view
to preventing and controlling outbreak
of contagious diseases They went arm
ed with letters to the managers ther'
from their agencies here.
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