The Hawaiian gazette., 1883-05-23

ANuTHEB week has passed'swsy. and has
added force to the indictment brought
against the Board Of Health in the last Is
sue Of this paper. The correspondence
between the Board on the one hand, and the
CAPTAIN and agents Of the Mad-Hs on the
other. which was published last week.
proves conclusively, If any proof were need
ed. the incapacity and inhumanIty OF the
Board. To mere layman the conditions
offered to the unfortunate captain appear
to be simply these: You shall mortgage
all the property Of your owners which Is
in your charge, all your own property pres
ent and prospective TO the Board of Health
You may begin by executing bond. for
which You must find unimpeachahle secu-
rity. for not less than $4,000 by way Of
instalment. The Board shall hold o1r1c
hd1ois 10 erect at your expense, what bull
dings. temporary or permanent they may
think hest, they shall burn or destroy
whatever contents Of your ship that Il may
please them to burn or destroy. they shall
hire. at your expense. whatever guards
they NAV please 10 employ. they shall pay.
at your expense. whatever medical advisers
they may please to call in. they shall pur-
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whatever provisions, medicines. furniture,
bedding. clothing. etc. may seem to them
profitable. and you-yCu have only to bind
yourself. and any responsible parties You
can procure. to this little arrangement, and
then we've viii at once perform that
which FIVE weeks ago we pronounced to be
impossible. we viii let you land ~ to the
number Of about FIVE hundred more or
less" OF yoJr passengers, now that they
have been confined within reach of infec
ton for five weeks. now that there are
nine cases Of small pox on board. though
any such action was declined peremptorily.
when the ship and those on board her were
infinitely less dangerous here than they
are nowi OF course the captain could not
50 betrsy his trust; Of course no one would
80 bondsman for such preposterous bond,
and Of course the negotiation failed-but
perhaps this was intended.
And 50 the tragedy goes on; DAY after
day. week after week sees this unfortunate
ship with her British flag. captain and
crew. restlessly rolling IN the swell. crowd
ed with q seething mass of humanity. and
a deadly contagious disease amongst them.
and all becaIise this Board of Incapables
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ting the passengers who had the misfor-
tune to travel with two cases of small pox.
Why II Is that there are not now. two
hundred. five hundred. seven hundred
cases on board. Is more than this Board
can explain; If there are nut-no thanks to
the Board II may well be said, II, for the
Government organ informs Us that there
are only Chinese physicians on board and
that these EssiT o. ooHoa7iiyg cases So
there may be some scores Of cases on board
well, they are only Cinnamon. the cap
tain and crew must chance it, And so,
isy after day for another week. to the
question what about the AadrEsF- comes
.he aEswer nothing new except that
1ne day last week a poor fevered wretch
N his desperation to escape from this in
tvHs risked and lost his life
We're John Howard now alive he might
ldd TO his experiences. When John How
md. d hundred years ago. sailed from
smyrna to Venice with q plague stricken
rev. he and they on arrival seyt ~ trans
crryd 70 tis Ba-lryr'o
Were Dante now alive he might add a
still lower circle to his IrJe-aot