The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1894-08-24


-dav afternoon, with President
smith in the chair. There were
present Messrs. Ena, Lansing and
Warehouse, and Doctors Day,
Wood and Howard.
The Committee on Quarantine,
DR.. Day and J. J. Warehouse,
Jr., reported as follows:
To HoH. W. 0. SMITH, President of
Board of Health.
Your Committee on Quarantine ana
Contagious Diseases, recognizing the
inadeduacy of the present equipment
AT the quarantine station to properly
1isinfeci vessels coming from injected
morris or with contagious diseases on
hoard recommend that the Govern
ment be requested to take steps TO
erect an efficient disinfecting plant:
The method at present employed
consists in placing eight or ten galVan-
lied iron buckets, each charged WIN
several pounds of birthstone, on the
door of one of the buildings in which
the messengers effects are hung. The
birthstone is ignited, the doors closed
and the process allowed to take care
of itself for six or eight hours, when
the doors are opened, men rush IN ana
jrag the smouldering buckets out OF
the buiIding. The effects are then
supposed to be clean; ,,.
The objections to this method are:
!. SULPHUR dioXide is not as ell
cient as heat for purposes oil dlslhlec-
,. The danger of fire. If a single
garment should happen to tali INTO
one of the buckets the whole building
and its contents would be destroyed.
2. The relatively small percentage
of sulphur dioXide thus obtained.
/ The risk to the individuals from
inhaling the irritating sulphur tunes.
). There is no provision made Tor
the distinction of vessels and cargoes.
Under the present arrangement the
community has very little real pro
lection against invasion from such
deadly diseases as small poX, cholera,
plague, yellow fever, etc.
What is needed to place the quarah-
tine station on scientific basis is
hot-air chamber and accessories Tor
disinfecting clothing and dunnage,
suyphur furnace and accessories Tor
fun1igatinr the holds andOther lnclosed
spaces of vessels and the cargoes, ana
a corrosive sublimate tank Tor nusn-
ing decks, bilges, closets, etc III
short, such a plant as Described III tne
plans and specifications submitted TO
the Board of Health by the henslng-
ton Iron Works of Philadelphia, with
such notifications and alterations as
are necessary to adapt them TO the
conditions present at the quarantine
station.
lSigned) f. R. DAY, MD,
J. T. WATERHoUsE, JR.
Honolulu, August %, 1894.
President Smith presented re-
port from A. w. Keech in the mat
ter of utilizing the old Kaimiloa as
a disinfecting station. 1t was re-
ferred to the Committee on Quar-
antine
President Smith said he had
spoken to Mr.. Suhr about the arri'
val of the Belgic. The latter sug-
gested, if the Belgic arrived under
the same conditions as the Rio
Janeiro, that it would be a good
plan to moor her at the Mail
wharf, and to quarantine her there.
President Smith reported that all
the Government physicians had
asked to be re-appointed, and had
taken the oath, except DR.. Mckib'
bon. He sent a letter, saying that
he had held his present position Tor
thirtv-four wears, and that he would
take no oath. President Smith said
he had seen DR.. McKibbon, and had
told him it was not in the option of
the Board to reappoint him unless
he took the oath of allegiance.
Mr.. Lansing moved that all those
who asked to be recommissioned,
have their new papers issued to
them on the approval of the Minis
ter of the interior. Carried.
President Smith said that DR..
Hatzopulos had been notified to
attend, but was not present.
DR.. Oliver applied for a weeks
leave of absence. Granted.
Letters were read from Mr.. Mey-
ers, the superintendent of the leper
settlement. They contain nothing
of any special Importance, beyond
a record of the daily doings of the
unfortunates and their needs.
An application from DR.. F. NJ.
Gardner, of Riverside, Cal, for a
position as Government physician
was read. 1t was placed on file.
An application from E. H. Re-
qua was read, to be appointed su-
perintendent of the Insane asylum.
E. C. Aldrich made application
for a position as clerk, under the
Government.
James Berry renewed his appli-