The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-12-08

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| GOVERNOR FREAR.
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C6ysfing, more completely than any
lprevious report, the conditions in and
annual progress of She Territory of Ha-
wall, the first copies of the report Of
Governor Walter F. Frear to the. secre-
tary of the interior have just been re,
ceived in Honolulu. capitalization of
county and territorial governments,
progress in legislation, growth of de-
partmental administration and economic
and social conditions of the Territory
receive the fullest treatment.
| The tone Of the entire report is OPP
timistic, expfeBses great satisfaction
over the amount, of work that has been
performed by the Territory in its own
behalf and indicates but few fields OF
ADMINISTRATIVE labor which are not al.
ready well covered.
But four items appear in the Govern
or e recommendations under the head OF
Needed Eegislation.' 'aA The first of
these Is the necessity FOR an increase
in facilities in passenger travel between
4 Honolulu and the mainlands and he rec
1 ommends sthe suspension. Of the coast
wise navigation laws as relating to pas.
.engers for "A limited period, as the best
Igway Of attaining this end.
lGTbe creation of the National Park of
bKilauea, be states, is q matter of ma
ttjenal Importance, and elsewhere de-
! votes much spaeee4o, with maps illus.
tTRtive of, the efforts to, bring this end
.tabout. A lighthouse at Honolulu and
appropriations to continue work on the
harbors of Honolulu, Hilo and Kahului
complete the report under this head.
Reviews Health Work.
No subject is treated at more length
than are health matters and the great
progress made in sanitary work. The
\ Governor says: e
t'No subject has received more at
Etention during the last year than that
of the public health. The location of
! Hawaii at the. crossways of Pacific COM
tmerce and the approaching completion
Of the Panama Canal emphasize the
need of the greatest care in this matter.
Appropriations of $1,313, SO697 or sixty
per cent more than by the preceding
i biennial legislature, were made directly
for health purposes, besides appropria-
! tons of nearly million dollars in ad-
dition for closely related matters, such
! as water and sewer works. A sanitary
commission was provided to devise
plans for placing the city of Honolulu
in permanent sanitary condition. Many
laws of Comprehensive character were
enacted on the subjects of sanitation,
Tuberculosis, pure food, and other health
matters. During the year the depart
ment of public health effected much
Reorganization and extension of its
work
ffThore were two short epidemics of
cholera close together, with thirty-nine
cases and twenty-nine deaths; two cases
\ Of plague appeared in Honolulu and
fonJ on the island Of Hawaii. A case
Of yellow fever appeared off port for
the first time, but did not reach shore,
where the yellow fever mosquito exists.
"The year was notable one in the
investigation Of leprosy by the United
States Rnblie Health, and Marine HOspi-
tai Service in laboratories and with
4 Patients furnished by the Territory. The
4 bacillus of this disease is now easily
lepItivated Artiicially, following the
fifst such cultivation by Clegg, then en-
lpioyed in Manila, but now at Honolulu,
which marks the first great advance in
the study of this disease since the dis
covefy Of the bacillus by Hansen in
1858. General leprosy was developed
\ also in monkey, which Is probably
the first time that il has been developed
in an animal other than man, a result
which augurs well for more effective
research work in the future
4 housekeeping Questions
!, Our complex and problematieal land
Questions, and particularly homestead
ing questions are treated frankly, The
Governor believes that progress has
been made, new era In land admins
tration dating from the ehanges made
3, by congress in our land laws. He
refers, plainly, 10 ffake homestead.
! ing,v but states that a sRner public
sentiment as regards this evil is sup.
|, porting governmental correction.
"under the Hawaiian homestead
laws Of 1884 and 1895 and their amend.
ments the chief concern seems to have
been to get people 10 take land under
homestead forms, That was a fairly
safe policy at the outset, but with
changes which increased the induce,
menta for taking homestead lands FOR
speculative purposes and the discovery
81 meihoda ef evadlng tie spirit Of tha
homestead laws, radical changes hofh
in those Laws and their administration
beenpe necessary, Tie ehief concern
nos "a HQf - mnrh ~ dispose ~ land
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