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The Board of Nursing was established on July 1, 1917.

In 1905, the granting of licenses to practice medicine became a function of the Board by Act 48, Session Laws of Hawaii. No person was allowed to practice medicine or surgery in the Territory of Hawaii without having a valid license obtained from the Board. Such license was granted upon the written recommendation of the Board of Medical Examiners. Boards of examiners of other medical disciplines such as osteopathy and naturopathy were established later and the Board of Health required their recommendations before granting licenses.

Institutionalized care for juvenile delinquents was begun during the monarchy when legislative action in 1850 provided for the.placement of "vicious children" in foster homes. In 1864 the legislative assembly voted to authorize the Board of Education to establish an industrial and reformatory school for neglected children and for the "reformation of juvenile offenders." Six thousand dollars was appro­priated for the establishment and maintenance of an industrial and reformatory school which was placed under the supervision of the Board of Education. In 1866 Keoneula Reformatory School, located in Kapalama, had fifteen boys and six girls. Due to a lack of funds, the girls school was discontinued in 1870. In a report in 1900, the superintendent of public instruction recommended that the boys school be relocated at Waialee and the Kapalama site be used for a girls school. In 1901 the legislature appropriated funds for the construction of the school, which was occupied in 1903. In 1904 the girls school was opened at the abandoned site, and was later moved to Moiliili.

Due to community pressure, the legislature in 1915 passed Act 81 which vested the management and control of all public industrial and reformatory schools in the Board of Industrial Schools. Effective January 1, 1916, the Board assumed all the powers and duties of the Department of Public Instruction with regard to the opera­tion of the industrial schools and detention homes. The Board consisted of seven members, three of whom were women; the Judge of the Juvenile Court of the First Circuit served as an ex officio member. They were appointed by the governor for a four-year term and served without compensation. The first members of the Board of Industrial Schools were Dr. Charles B. Cooper, chairman, Mrs. F.W. MacFarlane, Miss Bertha B. Taylor, Father H. Valentin, Judge W.L. Whitney, ex officio, Mrs. F.W. Klebahn, and Charles G. Heiser, Jr. In practice, the Board met in a body at least twice a month for detailed study with the superintendents of the schools, discuss­ing problems and budgets. They planned the policy of the schools, approved and signed all disbursements, passed on all parole matters, and made frequent visits to the schools.

In order to handle the finances of the Board, an executive secretary was hired. Conducting the business of the Board from the office in the Armory Building, F. Lang Akana served as the first executive secretary. In that capacity he also acted as the parole officer. In 1939 the executive secretary was given the title of chief parole officer.

Plagued by overcrowded conditions and a close proximity to urban conditions, a new site for the girls home was sought. By the Loan Act Fund (Act 266) of 1925-1927 appropriations were made for the construction of a new plant at Kawailoa in Koolaupoko. The schools was opened as the Maunawili Industrial Schools for Girls in 1929.

By Act 186, enacted in 1929, the industrial schools were formally known as Maunawili Training School for Girls and Waialee Training School for Boys. In 1931 the name of Maunawili Training School for Girls was changed to Kawailoa Training Schools for Girls.

During the session of the Twentieth Legislature in 1939 the Department of Institutions was created by Act 203, and jurisdiction over the Kawailoa Training School for Girls and Waialee Training School for Boys was transferred from the Board of Industrial Schools to the newly created department. The Board of Indus- trial Schools was abolished, and the director of the Department of Institutions assumed the powers formerly exercised by the Board.

In 1931, the Board of Hospitals and Settlement replaced the bureau of leprosy to operate the receiving stations, hospitals, boys' and girls' homes, and the Kalaupapa Settlement of the bureau for the treatment of leprosy. Between 1947 and 1951 the separate bureaus for the treatment of various infectious diseases were brought under the Division of Preventive Medicine, along with other bureaus, for the better coordination of resources. The treatment of leprosy remained separated under an independent board. In 1949, however, the Board of Hospitals and Settlement was reintegrated into the Board of Health, and it was renamed the Hansen's Disease Division in 1951.

The Board of Health, 1851-1959, was established on May 8, 1851 by an act of the 1851 Legislature to serve as the policy-making authority for public health measures in Hawaii. The board’s function was to make rules and regulations relating to the prevention and treatment of the causes and conditions of malignant disease and other danger to public health.

Originally, records of shipping and harbor affairs, dating from 1842, were kept by the Harbormaster under the Ministry of the Interior, and later by the Collector General of Customs under the Ministry of Finance. With the establishment of the Territory through the Organic Act of 1900, the duties relating to "streets and highways, harbor improvements, wharves, landings, waterworks, etc." passed to the Superintendent of Public Works.

On July 1, 1911, Act 163 transferred all the functions of the Superintendent of Public Works dealing with the ports and harbors to an independent Board of Harbor Commissioners "to control and manage the harbors, ports, docks, wharves and shipping throughout the Territory." It consisted of five members, the Chairman (who acted as Chief Engineer) being the Superintendent of Public Works, and the other four appointed by the governor. In 1951, Act 22 amended this to seven members, the Chairman again being the Superintendent of Public works.

When Hawaii attained statehood in 1959, the resultant reordering of the government placed the Board of Harbor Commissioners under the Department of Transportation. The composition of the Board remained the same with the exception that the Director of Transportation then became its Chairman.

On July 1, 1961, the Board of Harbor Commissioners was abolished and in its place the Department of Transportation organized a Commission on Transportation, consisting originally of nine members and later eleven members, to advise the Director of Transportation on pertinent matters.

Harbormasters: Honolulu Harbor
1820 - 1841 Alexander Adams
1841 - December 31, 1842 Stephen Reynolds
January 1, 1843 - August 19, 1846 William Paty
September 4, 1846 - January 20, 1849 D. P. Penhallow
January 22 - July 5, 1849 James Smith
July 6, 1849 - March 1853 Joseph Maughan
September 30, 1853 - October 7, 1862 H.J.H. Holdsworth
October 8, 1862 - December 31, 1873 John Meek
January 1, 1874 - September 11, 1879 Daniel Smith
September 11, 1879 - March 1909 Andrew Fuller
March 1909 - (d. Mar. 1911) William A. Clark
to October 1911 A.N. Tripp
to 1931 W.R. Foster
1932 - 1941 James L. Friel
1941 - 1945 Frank K. Unterman (Acting)
1945 - 1950 or 51 James L. Friel
195 - A.W.P. Jensen

Created August 9, 1880, with the approval or Act 7, Laws or 1880. Purpose of the Board was clarified by Act 21, Laws of 1882, approved August 3, 1882. Abolished by Act 3, Laws of 1887, approved November.21, 1887. Original Board members were: Virginia Poomaikelani, President; Manu Kahunaaiole, Consultant; and J. A. Nahaku, Secretary, all commissioned February 4, 1882. Others who served as Board members were: F. H. Austin and F. L. Clark, commissioned February 16, 1887, and Joseph Liwai, Secretary, commissioned March 7, 1887. Rules of' the Board were approved by the Mōʻī (King) in Cabinet Council, March 29, 1882.