The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-04-14
THE AFTERNOON SESSIONS

functions. Fairchild moved to defer
the items after expressing the same
old view that the outside counties
should not pay for services exclusive
ly for the benefit of Honolulu
Attorney Robertson advised the
members that a pending bill, as well
as the existing municipal charter,
gave the counties power to appoint in
spectors of all the kinds in question.
Only if the superior authority was
retained for the Board of Health it
would be optional with the counties
how far if to any extent they should
assist. He confirmed suggestion of
the chairman, who quoted the case
OF California, that divided powers dio
not necessarily involve friction. In
addition to state and city boards OF
health in that state it was only re-
Gently that the Federal authorities
took a hand in the sanitation of San
Francisco
President Smith reiterated his con-
viction that educational and health
matters should be kept in Territorial
control
Fairchild moved that the question
of meat inspectors, etc, be deferred
until the House bill aTlotting new
powers to the counties be disposed Of.
Mccarthy said it was all right to
pass the inspectors up to the coun-
ties, but where was the counties to
get the money.
Chillingworth said if the liquor
license fees were turned over to the
counties it would give them enough
for the additional services.
Fairchild said the actual estimate
was that $4,000 more revenue would
go to the counties than the cost of
all the work proposed to be turned
over to them
Nothing doing with the motion, the
committee drove on. Meat inspector
and veterinary ($15O), $4,000; milk
/, and dairy inspector $50, $780,
Passed
= Mccarthy moved to restore the SIZE
a month for bacteriologist and patho-
logist, as being a most necessary off.
Ger. Carried.
The item of $26,16O for government
, physicians, with a long string of du.
ties laid down including those of reg.
lstrar of vital statistics, as a matter
J of course brought out amendments.
Baker had one inserted to require
that the Kona physician reside moi
! farther than one and one-half mile.
= from the boundary line between Nortl
t and South Kona.
S Kalama had the salary of the phy
< stefan for Molokai outside of the Len
err Settlement raised from S75 to S12
J. a month Otherwise, as he said. NJ
J. doctor would stay there. People wer,
!, dying every day on that side of tn,
= island for want of medical atten
/ dance.
When Coelho and Robinson strucl
for raise of $25 in the pay of Mau
= doctors, Smith opposed it saying the,
J, had more or less good private prac
!. tees. CoelhO rejoined that thei
t practices were diminished by the EN-
. ployment of Oriental practitioners
t. The campaign failed.
= Quarantine, fumigation, disinfec
h ton, medical service, medical sun
|. plies, prevention and suppression O
+ contagious diseases, prevention an
h cure of tuberculosis, $4,000. Passed.
p Rat campaign, Honolulu, $4,000
d Passed.
e Rat campaign, Hilo, $4,000. Make
: kau moved $6O00-not his own ide
he explained but conveyed in letter
# from people and the Board of Trad
), in Hilo. Hilo paid more for dead rat
= than Honolulu.
}, Robinson moved to cut Hilo t
e $500 and insert $500 for rat cam
/ paign on Maui.
: Fairchild voiced a suggestion frol
" the press table that an item be ir
= serted for suppression of feas
d Coelho descanted on destruction {
If cane by rats around Wailuku. n
e. moved $4,000 for rat campaign in Wa
luku. Kalama asked what was tn
t, rat campaign anyway. Smith toI
} him of the fight to keep plague dow
10 and out here for seven years and
y the rat campaigns in Australia an
lie elsewhere for the same purpose. C,
le elho's motion carried.
lie Care of Lepers and Their Chi
le dren: Care of lepers, segregation al
s. hospitals, pay roll, $4,000. Passed
Fairchild, on the strength of di
Of covered needs on the recent legisl
or tive visit, moved to insert the folio,
Mt ing items: Material for complete
or of general hospital at Kalaupap
s, S2575; slaughterhouse, $3.50; hi
H. house, 5000; changes and repairs ri
"a, sites and fences, $3.50; extension Wa
Re, kolo waterworks, $3.50; icehouse, IS
ed repairs dormitory and fish house f
girls, S2100 Carried.