The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-12
HAwAIrs STRICT QUARANTINE.
Regulations Which Practically Shut Out
American and Japanese ships.

Regulations Which Practically Shut Out
American and japanese ships.
The board of health of the Hawaiian govern
ment has just adopted very stringent auaran-
tine regulations under law passed In Septem-
Der. The regulations are especially rigid, IN
fact, are practically prohibitive against vessels
from American and japanese ports.
The act provides that the minister of finance,
upon being notified by the board OF health
shall order the closing of ali ports of entry in
the kingdom, with the exception of Honolulu,
and thereafter no vessel shall be allowed
to enter any other port unless driven
in by stress OF weather, but even
then she shall not be allowed to
land any mails. cargo. passengers. officers or
crew. Any vessel may, after having complied
with the quarantine regulations Of the board OF
health at Honolulu and being properly entered
there, proceed to any other port in the kingdom
on q permit from the board of health. The
board of health is authorized to establish such
quarantine regulations a. it may see fit, and
raise the quarantine when 1t thinks there Is no
emergency requiring its enforcement
Acting under the authority of this law, the
board OF health on september 80 issuei instruc-
tions TO the minister OF finance to close all ports
with the exception of Honolulu, and the order
has undoubtedly been carried into effect. The
reason assigned was the presence of cholera in
the United states and Oeher foreign countries
adopted by the board OF health, as provided in
the act:
No pilot or customs house officer shall be al
lowed to board a vessel until gwen permission
to do SO by the port physician. When . vessel
il spoken the port physician 10 required to go
out 10 her ana with q long pole receive from
the captain his bill of health. Ii the vessel BIS
from nou-infected port, the American coast
and Japan excepted the port physician ! may on
person suffering from q contagious disease on
hoard, afle making thorough inspection OF all
on board, allow her to enter But vessels from
the American coast and Japan, with u clean bill
of health. are required to lay at anchor under
yellow flag for period OF full ten days from the
date of sailing, provided they have not been out
that length of time. On q certificate from the
captain that there 10 no contagious disease on
board at the expiration OF the ten days the port
physician shall thoroughly inspect the vessel,
aud, If found satisfactory, allow her to land at
the quarantine wharf. Passengers, freight and
luggage shalt be fumigated and disinfected and
the passengers will be subject to medical exam
ination Tor at least ten days more at their own
expense.
The officers and crew must remain on board
under the supervision o. an officer Of the board
OF health until tine ship mas been thoroughly
fumigated; they may then go ashore, but are
subj ,cted to medical examination while IN
port. through vessels from Japanese or Amer
lean ports, out less than ten days, are allowed to
on scows, aud these scows and the men en-
ployed On them are subjected to the same regu.
latious as the vessel would have been.
The negotiations apply to sailing vessels as
well as steamers, and vessels making their APP
pearance in other ports in tae kingdom shall be
served with q copy of the regulations and Or
dered TO proceed TO Honolulu. All the expense
of the quarantine must be borne by the vessels.
Steamers from the American coast bound Tor
the Australian colonies are allowed to enter the
harbor at Honolulu for coal, provided they can
not coal outside. Also vessels with live stock
on board may land them at once under the strict
quarantine and then be tOwed out iutO the har-
Dor again anu subjected to the same rules a
other vessels.