Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-04-10
SETTLEMENT TO
GET Large sum
House Committee Makes Re-
port On Appropriations
Needed For MOIokai.

Is chairman. The report has the fol-
lowing recommendations
The needs of the settlement are
given as follows:
"a. 100000 for new buildings to re-
place old buildings ut Bay View Home.
80. $4,000 for an ice plant, with "A
capacity of turning out one ton of ice
per day. For this purpose the last
Legislature appropriated $500, but II
was found insufficient and was not
touched at all
20. $4,000 for building and repairing
road from Kalaupapa to Kalawai
-. $500 for Pail trail
IS. $1,000 for Jail and jailor's cot
tage.
&c. $500 for stationery and FREQ
postage for lcpcrs and children.
-. $1,000 for freight and transpor-
tation
"S. s2i0 pcr month for the running
expenses of the nursery.
80. $3.50 per month for running cx-
pcnscs of the new hospital.
40. 5000 per month for payroll and
running expenses of laundry.
III. $1,000 for new building at Bish-
Op Home for Children"
Tho most important recommends
tion made by the committee regarding
the care Of lepcrs Isl
Prom it's investigation your COM
mittcc Is Of the opinion that some
amendment should be made In the
present law providing for the letting
out on parole of subjects formerly de-
clarcd lcpcrs but who on rc-eXamina-
tion do not exhibit the disease. In
cases Of this kind II Is impossible to
get physician to declare such a sub
jcct not to be n lcpcr-whcre its con-
ditlon Is on the border line"
kalihl Receiving Station.
Your committee has visited this in
| stitution on two occasions and found
everything in the best of shape. The
$4,000 appropriated by the last Leg
islature for new buildings and equip
ment has been well spent. All the
buildings are extremely well and con-
vcniently planned and the toilet and
bath arrangements are excellent
throughout. There Is need, however,
, for two more cottages patterned aft
, er the style of those recently built,
for which an appropriation of $S625
, Is asked.
There is a marked Improvement in
/ the appearance of some of the pa
| tients here, and the number of pa
! tients who have voluntarily submit
! ted themselves for treatment under
the new law is exceptionally large.
| Some of these cases exhibit the dis
ease in a very advanced stage.
Under the new system sixty per-
sons have been received here as lep-
ers. as against eleven in the last pc
Rod under the former law. During
the period siXty-seven were examined
under the leper law passed at the
Session of 1909, fifty-fve of which
were examined in Honolulu and
twelve at the lcpcr settlement, OF
the fifty-Rve examined in Honolulu,
| forty-eight were declared to have the
disease, the rest not to have. All
twelve examined at the settlement
were declared lepers.
There are now In the Kalihi re-
Ceiving station sixty patients, twenty
seven females and thirty-three males,
the youngest six years of age and
the Oldest 10 years. OF these fifty
seven have been admitted since March
81, 1909
From its investigation here your
committee is of the opinion that some
amendment should be made in the
present law providing for the letting
out on parole of subjects formerly
| declared lepcrs, but who on rceXanl-
! ination do not exhibit the disease. In
cases of this kind 1t is impossible to
get physician to declare such n
subject not to be a lcper, where its
condition Is on the border line.
OF the cases voluntarily surren-
dercd in Honolulu for the period
19O9-I9ll:
Total number examined, 1903; num-
Der declared lepers, 90; number de-
clarcd not lepors, II; total, 1903,
Number retained in Kalihi station,
81; number sent to Molokai, 80; num-
Der discharged, II; number died, 8;
total, 1903.
Prison.
There Is great need for new
Jail, as the present building Is old
and leaky 1t was built in 1857 and
is beyond the stage Of repair, II
also lacks proper and sufficient ac-
cOmmodatiOn for the inmates. as three
persons have to be crowded into one
cell.
The proposition is not to erect 4
new building on the present site, II
having become too valuable for such
purpose, but to secure IA site else
where. 1t is thought that a place
might be secured near the Insane Asy'
lum premises from the Bishop Els
tate The grounds should be large
enough to permit of prisoners rails
ing many articles of produce for thcil
own maintenance, which are now be
ing bought on the outside Thus the
prison could be made more self-sus
tanning. Those unable to do hard
work could be employed here to ad
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