Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-11-05
LEAH HOME
WILL RECEIVE
PAY FROM CITY
Patients To Be Allowed at Rate
of $3.50 a Day-Appropria-
ton of $3.50 Withdrawn

Withdrawing the $3.50 month APP
! preparation and giving it instead
81 80 a DAY FOR every city Gud County
patient treated ther" is the pl%n nov
being ccnsidere' by the board CT ST.
| Pervi5ors. AT the next meeting of
that body the "omu'ittC" on heath
| has promised TO report definitely,
which Is taken 10 mean that il will
either recommend that the appropri-
alton be increased to $500 a month,
or suspended entirely, allowing the
home to rely on the regular fee of
$3.50 a day for municipal tuberculo-
sis patients.
The subject of Leahi Home and its
financial situation came before the
board of supervisors last night with
all its force, and before the discus
sion was ended declarations were
made that the Institution was at
tempting to hold up the county. and
recommendations were heard asking
that the $3.50 monthly allowance to
the home be stopped and the county
pay for its patients there on the
same basis as an individual.
The report to the board of DR..
James T. Wayson, city and county
physician, brought the subject up. He
stated that recently a tuberculosis
patient in extremis, confined in the
local Jail, had been refused admis'
sion to Leahi, notwithstanding that
he had reported to Superintendent
was one of emergency. The patient
was a Korean. " 3.
The following is the letter which
DR.. Wayson introduced, received from
DIR. Sinclair in reply to his request
Your communication requesting
accommodation for Korean now at
the police station, in Leahi Home has
been received. .@ ytsa. i
81 beg to state that at the present
time there are IS free patients in the
home--two more than the funds will
provide for, and also that there are
three applications for admission on
file. Consequently there. must be
|fiRes vacancies before this man can
be accommodated unless. the mean of
expense (S1.50 per day. is in some
way proyidedls -. i
The matter was finally disposed of,
'tempofarily, shysagreeiRgsto send the
Korean 10 the home at $3.50 day
the committee on health at the same
time agreeing to make its final re-
port by next meeting. The home,
some months ago, asked that the $3.50
"a month appropriation be increased
to- $500, and this request. is, still
hanging fire. The supervisors seem,
to a man, bitterly opposed to increas-
ing the allowance, and the sugges-
tons heretofore made to sever con:
nections with the Institution by erect
ing tuberculosis camp were repeat
ed last night. .--- -. 4
Supervisor Pacheco at one time
during thet discussion declared that
the home was now being run along
lines for financial gain and that it
was trying to. take advantage of the
county. Again he said:
|. Here we have case where a man
In the last stages or consumption is
kicked around from place to place. In
fact, he is waiting for five consump-
tives to die that place may be made
FOR him. Such a condition reflects on
this city badly l would recommend
that we cut out the appropriation en-
tirely and pay on regular $3.50 a
day basis. Such an arrangement viii
be infinitely better"
This was somewhat in line with
the idea of DR.. Wayson as given to
the Board He said
81 recommend that If Leahi Home
trustees will not grant the city and
county the privilege of admitting an
emergency INDECENT. especially tu-
berculosis case, without an additional
charge Of $3.50 day, that the board
of supervisors withdraw their sub
scription and leave it to the Judgment