The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1895-10-04
Evening Meetings Will Not be
Allowed for Some Time.
PETITION FROM TOBACCO DEALERS
Natives at Kunawai Supplied With
Water by Health Board-omcial
statement of the Cholera-So New
Cases Since September %Sth-A Letter

A meeting of the Board of Healtl
was held at 8 o'clock Tuesda,
afternoon. About twenty-five per
sons were present.
President Smith said that ther
were only very few matters to b
brought before the Board. Th,
matter of allowing the Rio de ia
metro freight taken to San francisco
to be brought back and landed al
this port was discussed first. A
letter written on September 18th
by the agents of the P. NJ. S. S. Co..
in San Francisco to H. Hackfeld &
Co., was read. The cargo of the
Rio de Janeiro had been thoroughly
fumigated upon arrival at San
Francisco. No reason was appar-
ent why the freight could not be
returned to Honolulu. Messrs.
Hackfeld & Co., were anxious to
have an answer, so as to be able to
send information by the Australia
to the agents in San Francisco.
T. F. Lansing's motion that the
Pacific Mail Steamship Co., be al
lowed to return the freight of the
Rio de Janeiro to this port, provid-
ed it be accompanied by certif-
cate Of fumigation and the mode of
fumigation used was carried unami-
mously.
President Smith was given per-
mission by the Board Of Health to
appoint G. W. r. King an agent of
the Board of Health.
There was considerable discus
sion INDUCED in regarding the
holding of evening meetings of any
kind. 1t was finally decided to
wait while longer before raising
the restriction.
A petition from several tobac-
conists of the city was read by
President Smith. They wished to
obtain permission to ship tobacco
and cigars. They could see no
danger of shipping their goods in
original packages from their ware
houses in Honolulu.
The matter was laid over until
later, as it was the opinion of the
majority of the Board that matters
with regard to freight should not
be rushed.
1t was decided to supply with |
water the natives of Kunawai who |
had been deprived of their source |
of water by the action of the Board |
in tabuing Kunawai spring after
the case of cholera at the Insane
Asylum.
OFFICIAL CHOLERA STATEMENT.
The first defined case of Asiatic
cholera appeared at Iwilei, in the |
suburbs of Honolulu on the 18th of |
August. Between that date and the
18th of September there were in all
eighty-five cases. Since the 18th of
September there have been but two
cases-one on September 9th and one
on the 2Sth. Since the 2Sth no new
case has appeared.
or the 81 cases, 80 were reported
soon after taken sick, 19 when dying,
and Is after death. In all there were
81 deaths.
The natiopalities of those affected
with cholera were: rs Hawaiians, 4
part Hawaiians, Americans, Por-
tuguese, Chinese and Japanese.
Efficient measures were promptly
enforced, and the progress of the dis
ease arrested.
The disease is believed to have been
brought from Japan by passengers on
the S. s. Belgic, which arrived here
August 9Th.
LETTER FROM CoLBURN.
The following letter from J. F.
Colburn to President Smith of thei
Board of Health was read at a
Of that body Monday
afternoon
In view of the fact that lately,
fish, crabs, shrimps, etc., have been
taken from the Nuuanu stream, at
present contaminated, and Palma (w.)
has lost her life through it, and fur
ther there seems to be an inclination
On the part of some Hawaiians to
take and eat this kind of food when
ever the opportunity offers, regardless
Of the danger of such fish, ETC., from
water, it seems to me
that some measure should be adopted
the suffering of the Hawai-
ans for the want of fish can be allevi-
.ted.
Fish aud other products of the sea,
We all know, are the chief food of a
very large percentage Of the Hawaiian
people, and to deprive them of it for
% long a period as has been the case ,
lnder the existing regulation, is un-
ioubtedIy hardship to them. Never
,efore / suppose, since the advent of
nan upon these shore, has such tabu
,een proclaimed, and enforced as at
present.
1 respectfully submit to the honor !
.ble body of which you are President,
hat so long as such close restrictions 6
re kept up, on what is undoubtedly '
he chief food of the Hawaiians, and I
he condition of their stomachs create !
uch an appetite for the food they :
lave been brought up on, just SO long E
will they take fish, etc., from the first :
nd most convenient places in spite Of I
he results it may bring forth and our {