Upon McGrew's resignation in 1886, Queen's Board of Trustees re-elected Dr. John Brodie to the position of Assistant House Physician. Three years later Dr. Brodie resigned and C.B. Wood accepted the position as of January 1, 1890.

Clifford Brown Wood was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on December 14, 1859. At the urging of his boyhood friend, Dr. Francis Day, Wood arrived in Honolulu on Christmas Day, 1886. Wood soon had an appointment as government physician for the Koolaupoko district of Oahu. Resigning from the Koolaupoko position in December 1887, the doctor became city physician for Honolulu. His duties included serving as physician for the branch hospital in Kakaako, serving as physician at the dispensary in Honolulu, inspecting and vaccinating students in the Honolulu schools, and acting as police department physician. The salary of the city physician was a princely $2400 a year. Quite understandably, he resigned after about four months to devote more time to his private practice. About 1888 he was appointed acting physician for the Lunalilo Home, which cared for indigent Hawaiians. In 1890 Dr. Wood became assistant physician at the Queen's Hospital. He was named surgeon in 1892 and continued in this capacity until 1905. Dr. Wood was the first doctor to serve on its Board of Directors and was the founder of the Thursday Morning Clinic.

The only bullet fired during the overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani and the end of the monarchy was lodged in the leg of a Hawaiian policeman and was extracted by Dr. Wood. He took an active part in working towards annexation by serving on the Council of the Republic, Citizens' Guard, and the Annexation Club.

In addition to his other activities, the doctor was a member of the Hawaiian Society of the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution, the Pacific Club and the Myrtle Boat Club. One of his earliest hobbies was photography, and he was one of the founders of the Hawaiian Camera Club and served on its first Executive Committee in 1889.

In Memoriam - Doctors of Hawaii biography of CB Wood

In 1891 McKibbin resigned his position as House Physician at the request of the Board of Trustees. In 1892 the Board of Trustees amended the Hospital's by-laws to create a section within the Rules and Regulations "to govern the Hospital Medical Service." At this time the position of House Surgeon was added. The Attending House Physician and the Attending House Surgeon were paid a salary each of $100 a month. These physicians continued their private practices outside the hospital while attending to ward and private patients at Queen's. The Board elected Dr. G.P. Andrews as Physician and Dr. C.B. Wood as Surgeon.

George Pierce Andrews was born at Kailua, Hawaii, on April 9, 1838, the son of Dr. Seth Lathrop Andrews and Parnelly (Pierce) Andrews, who came to Hawaii in 1837 as members of the Eighth Missionary Company. Reared and schooled on the mainland, Andrews returned to reside in Hawaii in 1890. In 1893 he was selected as one of the three medical men to serve on the Board of Health under the Provisional Government, and in September 1893, he became Port Physician.

From 1890 to 1891 he served as president of the Hawaiian Mission Children's Society. Reading a paper entitled, "A Polyglot Community", before the Social Science Club in 1897, the Advertiser reported that the doctor "expressed very tolerant and progressive views on intermarriage," which certainly was not indicative of the thinking of the times. From 1897 to 1898 he served as president of the Hawaii Medical Association. Appointed to the Board of Medical Examiners in 1898, he served until November 1902. In 1899 the Honolulu Eye and Ear Infirmary was established to provide free treatment for needy patients with Dr. Henry Sloggett as surgeon, assisted by Dr. Andrews.

He was a recognized connoisseur of oriental rugs and pottery and was also interested in weaving, botany and chemistry.

In Memoriam - Doctors of Hawaii biography of G.P. Andrews

In addition to establishing the positions of House Physician and House Surgeon, the 1892 amendments created an Honorary Board of Physicians to the Hospital, "to which any Physician resident in Honolulu and licensed to practice by the Hawaiian Government, may join upon vote of the Trustees. . .to visit the Hospital and make rounds with the attending Staff. . .and respond to all calls made upon them for consultation in important cases."

Physicians on the Honorary Board had the privilege of placing one private patient in the Hospital. Applications for the Board were slow in arriving. The first applicant, Dr. Henry W. Howard, was admitted on December 21, 1893.

Henry Williams Howard was born in Marseilles, Illinois, in 1867. In May, 1893, Dr. Howard arrived in the Islands, accompanied by his wife, to accept the position of government physician at Kapaa, Kauai. A few months later he came to Honolulu to substitute during the absence of Dr. Henri McGrew, Dispensary Physician. His duties at the Dispensary included caring for those Chinese addicts who had permits to receive opium every day (in 1897 he had a book of photos made of all the addicts with permits to cut down on chances of fraud), the examination of school children, vaccination, plus treating all routine cases that came to the Dispensary. In October, 1893, he reported to the Board of Health that in the previous quarter he had treated 2,181 patients.

In 1894 he was one of six physicians commissioned by the Board of Health to make scientific experiments in the treatment of patients with leprosy. During the cholera epidemic of 1895, he was one of the doctors in charge of the cholera hospital at Kakaako where he took the arduous task of night duty. Bubonic plague struck Honolulu in December 1899, and Dr. Howard was soon involved and served as camp physician at the Kalihi Detention Camp.

In Memoriam - Doctors of Hawaii biography of H.W. Howard

On April 2, 1894 Dr. C.A. Peterson was the next physician to be admitted to the Honorary Board.

Charles Allen Peterson was born on November 9, 1857, at Sandwich, Massachusetts and came to Honolulu with his family in September 1870, as a boy of twelve. King Kalakaua assigned Peterson as government physician to the Kaneohe and Koolau districts in 1884. He was especially valuable in this area, as he spoke Hawaiian fluently.

In November 1887 Dr. Peterson was appointed resident physician at Kalaupapa Leper Settlement. Feeling that the leper settlement was an unsuitable place to raise his children, he resigned in June, 1888. He served as prison physician from 1891 to 1893. In 1894 he became government physician at Ewa and later served the combined Waianae and Ewa districts. Resigning in November 1896, he moved back to Honolulu where he opened an office on Emma Street. His practice was largely among the Hawaiians. In August 1898, Dr. Peterson was commissioned Immigration Inspector, which took him to plantations on all the islands to inspect working and health conditions of the laborers.

Once again in private practice when the bubonic plague began in December 1899, the doctor volunteered his services and lived in quarantine away from his family with the other volunteer doctors in a building behind Iolani Palace. He was one of the few doctors who volunteered to be injected with a new experimental plague serum.

In April 1905, Dr. Peterson was appointed resident physician at the Insane Asylum where his knowledge of Hawaiian, Japanese, and several Chinese dialects obtained on the plantations, served in good stead. At the Asylum he initiated a program of hydrotherapy, a varied and balanced diet, and insisted that each patient spend most of every pleasant day out-of-doors. Heavy wooden chairs were made which confined the most violent patients and they, too, were given the fresh air treatment and sun baths.

On November 21, 1894, the Board of Trustees approved George Herbert's appointment to the Honorary Board of Physicians.

George Herbert was born January 4, 1859 at Eleypore, India. He served as physician on a steam vessel which was taking Portuguese laborers to work on sugar plantations in the Sandwich Islands and arrived in 1885. Dr. Herbert then went to Kauai and practiced at Kealia Plantation

Dr. Herbert was a government physician for a number of years. From 1893 to 1901 he was superintendent of the Oahu Insane Asylum. He was chairman of the Board of Medical Examiners from 1905-1916. In 1924 Dr. Herbert retired.

He was a member of the Pacific, University and Country clubs, Honolulu Council No. I, Chiefs of Hawaii, the Hawaii Territorial Medical Association, the Royal College of Surgeons, London, and the College of Physicians, Edinburgh.

In Memoriam - Doctors of Hawaii biography of G. Herbert