The Hawaiian gazette., 1869-01-13


rcd in persons who have had IN small pox.
/ 1t has been found impossible to confine
the natives of each district to teir appoin-
ted vacciDator. As rule, they fould crowd
to the Offices of those physicsls more cen
trally or conveniently loeaeL Thus DR..
Buffum, whose untiring gal in the work
take particular pleasure o bring to your
notice, has vaccinated uOre than twice the
number Of the officer pxt on the list, Mr..
Langhern, who figure with 1900 Every
vaecinating officer eatinned TO work as
long as applicants APPEARED, each devoting
to it from two to tree days every week.
By the beginning ofDeeember the appliea-
lions ceased altngethr.
The last census of 500 gives the total po-
pulation of the towrof Honolulu proper at
ISIS. If from this number be deducted of the
half eastes-most ofxhom have themselves
been vaccinated BY heir regular physicians
One half 2sd
All Chinese SID
And all other foreigner 1874
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We have remainde Of $50 for our purely
native population, or l7s5 less than the num-
Der OF vaccinations prctised- This surplus
has 10 be distributed letween the rural po-
pulation adjoining Hoplulu and the visitors
from other islands happening TO be in town.
Ali the public hodss and Institutions,
Troops, Police, Prisoners, Inmates Of the
Hospital. Insane Asylum, Reformatory and
other Public Schools, have been efficiently
attended to. AT the present time the public
Vaceinator Mr.. Doipn and myself continue
to vaccinate almos daily, and as all new
arrivals from the otter islands are advised OF
this by posters SEN TO the coasting vessels,
we hope that the inhabitants of Honolulu
are and will continue TO be protected as
much as it is b our power to accom-
plish it. From December I'd to the present
time at least 500 more persons have been
vaeeinated. OF curse some recusants will
still remain, but ! is to be hoped that they
will avail themselves of the opportunity still
offered tO protect themselves. The only really
weak point YET Existing is in our Chinese
population. Harily any of them have pre-
scented themselve, ana it is well known with
what prejudice ney regard the operation in
question. a graf portion of them have
either had the snail pox in the natural way
or have had it in,eulated, but considerable
majority must emain exposed yet. 1t re
mains with this Board TO devise means by
which this part of our population may bt
either compelled, or persuaded to submit to
/ this protective MEASURE
The vaccination of the rural population Of
the Island of Oahu is progressing as fast as
circumstances will permit The next neigh
borhood of Honolulu, from Waikiki TO the
Palama river, nay be considered as pro
tected In ManOa the public ysceinator ha:
begun operations to-day, and during the next
week he will open vacclnating stations al
Kalihi ard Moanalua. From Koolau variou:
applications for vaccine have been made, and
l have been informed that during the next
week vaccination will be performed at foul
different stations OF that district, at three BY
private parties, snd one by Mr.. Doirou. On
Maui Dr. Lee commenced operations some
time ago at Lahaina and Waikiki, and Dr.
Rae at Hama At Hilo DR.. Whitmore and
Mr.. Kenway are busily at work; and on
Kauai DR.. ]. W. Smith has been engaged in
the work for some time past. In one month
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tected, and it is safe TO assert that in two
months that of the whole archipelago will be.
From the foregoing expose it will appear
evident that as soon as the Chinese shall
haYe been vaeeinated, the town OF Honolulu
will be thoroughly protected, and have no
hesitation in saying that a small pox epidemic
here will be an impossibility. never knew
of a town or place which was so well pre-
pared against the invasion of the disease as
ours is at present. Isolated cases we may
expect TO see here, as long as the germs Of
the disease car be imported from Japan, the
Pacific States of the Union, and British Co
lumbia, and no one who has had experience
of the epidemic will say that it will exhaust
itself in those countries before eight or ten
months; but We shall always be in position
to circumscribe and confne the disease to
the first cases arising
What will those who advocate rigid and
strict quarantine as the main protective meas
ure say if they find that these measures, with
all their paralyEing effects on trade and inter
course, and their unavoidable reaction on
the whole Industry and prosperity of our
kingdom shall extend over such length OF
tinel Great cities, which have commercial
relations with the whole world, and are pos
sessed of an almost unlimited variety of in
dustries and branches of trade, may be little
affected by a temporary Introduction or
embarrassment of their commerce with q
single country but how do We stand-seven-
tenths of whose trade is with the countries in
question, and whose chief industry is alto
gether dependent upon market in those
countries: Besides, as we have some direct
relations with Japan and China now, and
hope to have more of it, quarantine
laws, if logically carried through, would,
forever, have to be applied to all vessels
coming from those countries where the small
pox never dies out.
And then, supposing that we rad succeed
ed, at the cost of so much sacrifice, to ward
off the enemy for six or seven months, and
then suddenly wake up one morning TO find
him in our very midst-a circumstance which
might easily occur, as he will travel in in
visible and impalpable forms, and under GER
tain circumstances, has wonderful tenacify