The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-01-15
KAL|HI STATION
RECONSTRUCTION
New Buildings Nearly Finished
Where WaIlaCh Will
Experiment.


buildings at Kaiihi receiving station
which, for their first use, are to con
stitute the temporary leprosarium OF
lJ. 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 few weeks.
Arranged in 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 projeeted-some
of it already under way-in the old
compound, there will be harmonious
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 a skylfght 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 wainseoting and floor to make
their cleansing a simple matter. They
are a Iavatory containing abundance
of conveniences, a drug room, a 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 Wallaeh
treatment. They are ten by twelve
feet in size and will be nicely furnish
ed with wardrobes and the necessary
of comfort. In the mid
die of the row the yeranda is sunk
to the back of the building, forming
a common dining room for the patients.
Where advisable or necessary, how
ever, meals will be served to indivfd-
uals in their rooms. An installation
of lavatories also occupies the middle
section. At the extreme end of the
row is a linen room. The veranda 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
cement floor draining to the center in
to a waste pipe perforated cap, so that
it 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
room. a bath room and rooms for cook
and assistant cook.
There will be absolute segregation of
the hospital section from the living
and cooking rooms of the attendants.
Wallach, while in charge, will receive
the food of the patients from deliv-
cry board under a wide window open
ing out of the kitchen.
The various departments of the ex-
listing station We're visited on this oc-
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and order.
Workmen We're preparing to erect
the frame of a matron's cottage in the
middle of the lawn. This will have
high windows from which the matron
WIN have a clear lookout upon the
dornitories for women and children.
Mr.. Pinkham designed this building
with a special view to securing COM
plete vigilance, and he hopes the re-
suit will be an end, for good and all,
to any cause for scandals such as
have occasionally broken loose from
the institution.
Mr.. Pinkham stated that a small
steam laundry would be erected upon
the ground, the necessity for such a
having become clearly evil
dent,
After the Wallach experiment is
ended the buildings used for that pur-
pose will revert to the ordinary fure-
lions OF the receiving station. Pos
sibly, with its improved equipments,
the station will be used more as
hospital than before, where learned
specialists may perform services in
line with those of the fraternity en-
gagged at the Federal leprosarium
about to be erected on Molokai. Studies
of merely suspected cases of the
disease might. in their way, prove of
as much scientific value as those of
confirmed cases. Skilled treatment
of such would, at all events, prove
safeguard against any mistaken con-
signments of subjects to the Settle
ment at Kaiaupapa.