The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-05-27

FIGHT WELL ON
Encouraging Report Made at
Meeting of the Board
of Health.

The tuberculosis campaign is rapidly
getting into shape, not only in Homo.
lulu, but also ON Maui and Kauai, &C.
cording to report that was made to
the board Of health at its meeting yes
terday afternoon by Doctor Sexton, the
physician in active charge of the work.
Doctor Sexton reported that he Wis.
tied Maui last week, spending ak days
there, and found both tho pubic and
the physicians very enthusiastic over
the work of stamping out the disease
The supervisors, he stated, have secured
tract Of four hundred acres about two
thousand feet mp on the slope of Hale.
akala as home for tuberculosis pa.
tients, and have appropriated $500 for
| the construction of three small build
| ings. One of these is for the use of
the keeper, and the two others, each
capable of accommodating six patients,
are for the sick persons. II. p. Baldwin
promises TO erect another building for
six patients and will maintain it. He
has also donated two hundred and fifty
| ironwood trees for the farm. The super
visors expect to make another appro-
priation of at least $780, and it is the
intention to stock the place with cat
tie, pigs and chickens with view to
making it in the end self sustaining.
On Kauai, Doctor Sexton said, not so
much progress has been made, but it is
expected that some of the wealthy PEG.
pie of that island viii erect and main.
tain an institution for the care of the
tuberculosis patients.
Will Buy Auto Truck.
The board of health has voted to in
vest $2750 in an auto truck. President
Mott-Smith explained that the work of
the board has increased so much what
with sanitation, mosquito campaign and
tuberculosis campaign, that the present
means of transportation are entirely
inadequate, and after careful considera-
ton and consultation with Governor
Frear and Auditor Fisher, he had con
cluded that the purchase of an auto
truck would inure to the benefit of the
board and the added efficiency of its
work.
Moving Pictures vs.. Booze.
President Mott-Smith made report
on his recent trip to the Settlement,
substantially as was presented in The
Advertiser last Tuesday.
: Mr. Mott-Smith also stated that the
moving picture theater at the Settle
: ment is the most popular feature of life
there, and that since it was started,
drinking, carousing and the making of
swipes have materially decreased. He
) added that the moving picture theater
is maintained by private generosity,
, Auditor Fisher refusing as yet to believe
that moving picture films come proper
, ly under the head of care and segre-
cation of lepers. Mr.. Mott-Smith sug-
l gested that donations of lantern slides
: would be greatly appreciated.
The rest of the business transacted
; at the meeting was mainly of a routine
) nature. The application of the Hilo
D Hong Wal Society for permission to
: start cemetery in South Hilo was de-
+ ferred for further information concern
I. ing the location. A similar application
by the Consolidated Pineapple Company,
: to start cemetery for Japanese at Wa
c hiawa was granted.
: Prefer Kaulkau to Work.
Several of the former inmates of the
Settlement, who were reexamined and
: discharged as not being afflicted with
the disease, presented applications to be
: allowed to return to the tleshpots, hav.
y ing apparently wearied of earning their
own HVlnB. Ihese matters were de-
ferred, pending the arrival of Superin.
tendent McVeigh.
One inmate of the Settlement wanted
@ his wife fired, claiming she was living
. with another man, but Superintendent
: McVeigh, to whom the matter had been
9 referred, reported that the husband
i Ben Kalau, is a "lazy, miserable
S whelp," who wants his wife elected
n from the Settlement because she will
II not give him the money she earns dress
= ing sores. Kalau s petition was prompt
ly denied.
g Mr.. Mott-Smith stated that he ant
L. Jack McVeigh had been working on the
% plan for a new dormitory for the Ka
q piolani Girls Home at Kalihi. The
:. building, he said, must not cost more
'. than $4,000 or $4,000.
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