The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-05
HEDGING AGAINST
DR. ]. ATCHERLEY
Conditions Under Which He
Can Treat Patients
at kaIihi.

Wallach was turned down again, and
this without even any terms of grace
or courtesy to soften the fall. It came
at the meeting of the Board of Health
lepers at the Settlement was re-
ceived asking that ,. Lor Wallach be
permitted to come there and treat
them under the supervising eye'' OF
DR.. j. Atcherley. Apparently, the
people at the Settlement do not know
that Wallach is in jail under the
supervising eye" of High Sheriff
Henry.
The brusque motion s'that the petit
tion be refused" was carried.
At the meeting of the board there
We're present President Cofer, Attor-
ney General Hemenway, Fred Smith,
NJ. P. Robinson, D. Kalauokalani,
James f. Morgan and DR. J. T.
Wayson.
After the reading of the minutes,
the memorial from So6 of the people
of the Settlement, expressing their sat-
isfaction with Superintendent Nc
Weigh, and DR.. Goodhue and DIR. Holl-
man and other employees OF the board
at the Settlement, was read. On mo-
ton of Attorney General Hemenway,
the following resolution was adopted:
Resolved That the secretary be in
Board of Health to the inmates of
the Leper Settlement on Molokai. ac-
knowiedging the receipt of the petition
presented to the board relative to the
conduct and administration of the af-
fairs of the Settlement by the present
superintendent and physicians, ex-
pressing the qualification of the board
at the satisfaction shown with the
work Of said superintendent and ply
,sicians, and assuring the inmates of
the Settlement that, after a careful
examination made by the president of
the board and his party upon their
visit to the Settlement on April 80,
1908, the Board of Health thoroughly
endorses in every way the work of
Mr. MeVeigh and assistants. and their
able, sympathetic and careful admin
istration of the affairs of the Settle
ment''
A petition was received from num-
Der of suspects at Kalihi Receiving
Station asking that Dr. ]. Atcherley
he permitted to attend and treat
them. The following resolution, offer
ed by NJ. P. Robinson. was adopted
as the reply of the board to this Pc
tition:
Resolved. That any regularly-li-
censed physician in the Territory may
from time to time, at the discretion
of the Board of Health, be given per-
mission to- treat patients suffering
with leprosy at the Kalihf Receiving
Station in Honolulu. upon the request
of such patients and upon condition
that the treatment proposed to be
given by such physician, together
with samples of all medicines pro-
posed to be used, be submitted to and
approved by committee of two, to
be appointed by the board, consisting
of one of the physicians serving as
member of said board and the super
intendent of the United States lepro-
sarium, and upon further condition
that the treatment thereafter SO given
be at all times subject to the sur
veillance and inspection of such COM
mittee and the members of the Board
of Health"
Dr. Cofer reported that he had ap-
pointed F. NJ Hatch by cable to rep
resent the Territory at the National
Health Conference held in Washing
ton, April q. This action was ap-
proved.
WIRELESS TELEGRAPH.
A communication was received from
the Wireless Telegraph Company say
ing that the company would ike to
reopen it's Kamalo wireless station
again. if the necessary support could
he secured The Maui Board of SUI
pervisors. had agreed to pay s25 |
month for the service. The Inter-Is-
and Company and the American SUI
gar Company were willing to do their
share. If the Board of Health would |
guarantee a certain number OF mes
asges a month at regular rates, the /
believed it would be able to
reopen the office. which it felt sure
would be a convenience and a salts
faction to the board.
The president was given power TO |
let in the matter.
The petition from sixteen lepers at
he Settlement was read asking that
heir children under one year of age
,e not removed rom the Settlement,
,ut be maintained in the new nursery,
md granted
Petitions for permission TO maintain
wash-house, by See Tuck Tong &
20, at Pauoa, on Pauoa street, near
avenue. and of Tam Quay.
lear the Nuuanu river, were refused
n the recommendation of the plumb
ng inspector, f. G. Keen.
HILO HOSPITAL.
Dr. J. j. Grace, the chief sanitary
fficer and government physician at
lilo, reported an estimate Of the
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