The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1883-05-23

ANOTHER week has passed'away, and has
added force 10 the indictment brought
against the Board Of Health III the last Is
sue Of this paper. The correspondence
between the Board on the one hand, and the
Captain and agents of the Nodro' on the
other. which was published last week,
proves conclusiyely, If any proof were need
ed. the incapacity and iDhumanity of the
Board To a mere layman the conditions
offered to the unfortunate captain appear
to be simply these: Hou 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 a bond, for
which you must find unimpeachable secu
rity. for not less than $4,000 by way of
instalmcnt. The Board shall hold oaHc
blanche TO erect at your expense, what bull
dings, temporary or permanent, they may
think best, they shall burn or destroy
whatever contents Of your ship that it may
please them TO burn or destroy, they shall
hire at your expense, whatever guards
they may please to employ, they shall pay,
at your expense, whatever medical advisers
they may please to call in, they shall pur
chase and distribute at your expense,
whatever provisions, medicines, furniture,
bedding, clothing etc, may seem to them
profitable, and yOu-yOu have only to bind
yourself, and any responsible parties you
can procure. TO this little arrangement, and
then we've will at once perform that
which five weeks ago we pronounced TO be
impossible, we will let you land to the
number of about five hundred more or
less" Of your passengers, now that they
have been confined within reach Of infec-
tion 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 nowl OF course the captain could not
so betray his trust; of course no one would
so bondsman for such a preposterous bond,
and Of course the negotiation failed but
perhaps this was intended.
And so the tragedy goes on; day after
day. week after week sees this Unfortunate
ship. with her British flag, captain and
crew, res;iessly rolling in the swell. crowd
ed with seething mass of humanity. and
a deadly contagious disease amongst them.
and all because this Board of Incapables
themselves incapable of isola-
ting the passengers who had the misfOT
tune to travel with two cases Of small pox
Why it 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 not-no thanks to
the Board. II may well be said, II, for the
organ informs us that there
are only Chinese physicians on board and
that these assist iH ooHoa1iWg 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.
lay after day for another week. TO the
question what about the W1drosr' comes
.he answer nothing new except that
Jne day last week a poor fevered wretch
N his desperation TO escape from this iH-
t1go risked and lost his life.
Were John Howard now alive he might
Nd to his experiences. When John How
md. a hundred years ago, sailed from
smyrna TO Venice with plague stricken
rev, he and they on arrival rare aY trims
crrod 10 The L1znrC'fo
We're Dante now alive he might add a
till lower circle TO his Inferno!