The archives of the Mamiya Medical Heritage Centre (the Hawaiian Medical Library) contain records of the Board of Health and of the Board of Leper Hospitals and Settlement. There are extracts from reports of presidents of the Board of Health, government physicians and others, and from official records; the 1930 report on the Governor’s Advisory Committee on Leprosy in Hawaii; miscellaneous papers of the Committee on Leprosy; minutes of the Board of Leper Hospitals and Settlement. Minutes (1933); miscellaneous papers of the Board of Leper Hospitals and Settlement; and the 1932 annual report of the Board of Leper Hospitals and Settlement. There are C B Cooper’s Memoirs; clippings on leprosy; letters; reports, etc.
In addition there are early publications relevant to leprosy control in Hawaii:
Report of the President of the Board of Health to the Legislative Assembly of 1886 on Leprosy. Honolulu: Daily Bulletin Steam Printing Office, 1886.
Report of Dr. Edward Arning to the Board of Health and of Correspondence Arising There From. Honolulu: Hawaiian Gazette Pub Co, 1886
Board of Leper Hospitals and Settlement: Memo re proposed improvement for Kalaupapa and Kalihi Hospital as a Continuation of the Rehabilitation Program of 1931 – 1933. Honolulu: 1933.
Board of Leper Hospitals and Settlement. Minutes. Honolulu: 1933.
Pyle, Ernie. Kalaupapa. Honolulu: 1937-1939.
Entry made March 2002