The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-10-10

tary to patrol the stream. The
matter of uniforms and arms
would have salutary effect upon
the natives. The present guards
were doing well, but could not be
| seen at distance, which was con-
sidered a drawback. Two guards
used a boat and rowed up and
down the stream. About the
mouth of the stream, near King
street bridge, the stream was not
as we'll looked after as it should be.
AS the water at School street
bridge was not infected, the guard
there was useless, and at the re-
quest of the physicians was or
dered discontinued. DR.. Wood
believed that eight soldiers could
guard the stream successfully.
President Smith said unemployed
members of the volunteer compa-
MES should be used for the purpose
of guarding the stream they had
uniforms and should be given the
preference.
Speaking further of the stream
and matters in connection with it,
DR.. Wood said when proper ar
rangements had been made for
guards, he would favor raising the
quarantine on this island, perhaps
with the exception of keeping
guards at the pail and Maunalua.
President Smith believed it
would be better to retain the
guards at the pail and Maunalua
for a time; this would better sat
isfy the people beyond those places.
Before further action was taken
on the subject, President Smith
wished to know what effect, if any,
the infection of certain portions of
Nuuanu stream would have on
passenger traffic between Honolulu
and the other islands.
DR.. Wood replied by saying that
all countries recognized the dis
tinction between first and second
class passengers. The danger was
from steerage passengers.
A motion to raise the quarantine
on the valleys, to take effect at
once, was carried unanimously.
Nuuanu stream, the pail and
Maunalua will be strictly guarded
until further notice.
DR.. Wood thought it would be
safe to raise the restriction on
children from infected districts at
tending schools by next Monday, if
no new cases of cholera broke out
in the meantime.
President Smiths action in con-
demning an additional taro patch
of three. quarters of an acre in tn e,
Waipilopilo district was sanctioned.
This was found necessary in ord er
to dry up patches below. Sui
phuric acid was being used to good
effect on the patches which had
been condemned.
The Board was informed that
the committee appointed to ascer-
tain the quantity and value of taro
destroyed in the condemned
patches would report the following
day.
President Smith informed the
Board that all employees at the
cholera hospital had been dis
excepting c. J. Whitney
and a guard. The place was in
good order and ready for patients
if there should be more cases of
cholera.
The insane asylum had been in
strict quarantine for week, and
as no new cases had broken out,
DR.. Smith reported that the quar-
antine could with safety be raised.
This was accordingly voted. The
fields about the asylum that were
declared infected are now thor
oughly dry; there could be no fur
ther danger Of patients develo ping
cholera by drinking water from the
fields.
There was considerable discus
sion about fish and how the sale
should be regulated. President
Smith said there could be no obiec-
ton to dried fish from Hawaii,
Molokai and Lanai being sold.
Mr.. Lansing favored the sale of
fish caught elsewhere than in the
district of Honolulu, but only at
one place and under close inspec-
ion. A person conversant with
fish should be named as an in
:pector.
There seemed to be some doubt
as to proving where the fish were
caught. Member Keliipio solved
he problem by the proposal that
Ill fish brought into the city be
accompanied by a certificate show
Dg where and when caught, and
oy whom. The certificates could
De furnished by guards at the diff
erent places leading into town.
A motion by Dr. Wood that deep
roTar fish oauUbt outsida of Homo