The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-12-10
VACCINATION
IS PROBLEM
New Law Greatly Complexities
Question of Health of
the Children.

The vaccination problem is one that
is puzzling the board of health, and
President Mott.Smith is racking his
brains for some way of getting the
unpleasant work over without any more
pilikia than is absolutely necessary. The
Board has taken up the matter of get
ting the school children vaccinated, and
notices have been sent out to the pa
rents, in accordance with the require
ments of law.
The legislature at the last regular
session, in its great wisdom, immensely
complicated matters by virtually repeal
ing the compulsory vaccination law and
hedging the vaccination of school chill
dren about with such restrictions as to
make the task before the board a very
difficult one.
Up to the time of the last legislature
there was a compulsory vaccination law
on the statute books, but the usual fight
was started against it, and as a result
it was wiped out and another law sub
stituted which makes it hard for the
authorities to protect the health of the
children and of the community. Under
cinated except by written permission of
the parents or unless the parents are
present. The solons went even farther
and, although there was not one of
them probably, who knew the difference
between scalpel and a tube of anti
toxin, they prescribed the method the
doctors must follow in vaccinating a
school child.
The doctors, say the solons, must
take a scarifier from a sealed tube and
point from a sealed tube, use them
once and throw them away. But it has
been found that the sealed points are
no good, and in order to get some that
will work, the board of health has
found it necessary to use three tubes,
one containing the scaritier, the second
containing the point, and third con-
tanning the virus into which the point
must be dipped. This not only makes
lot of trouble, but also greatly in
creases the cost of the operation. The
doctors are all as sore as the vaccinated
arms of their patients. p
"It's tube bad" said President
MottSmith-and the reporter fed.
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board ended. After much pressing for
reason, they explained.
They said that they wanted two sani-
tary inspectors and as the board was
agreed upon this Quinn made motion
to reconsider the bill and have them
provided for. Again AHA and Aylett
bucked the motion although 1t had been
made in accordance with their wish.
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had previously been lost and the mo.
tion TO reconsider was carried in spite
of the curious antics of Aylett and
AHA, Kane finally seeing light.
The two inspectors We're provided
for, the bill again went to the ques-
tion TO print aud was carried Tho
circus ended there and the supervisors
went home,
Several people get substantial boosts
and good additions were made 10 the
road appropriation, City and County
Physician Maekall got "A boost of $50
Ia recognition of his efficient services
ana his assistant In the dispensafy was
allowed $40 a month over what he gets
from the board OF health Tor be ser
vices as ianiior
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raise Of sl0 month each ANA thall
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taiu pat up a good lino of lalk tar hli
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