The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-08-23
THE CITY Is BEING CLEANED.
"
Board Of Health Declares Asiatic
Cholera to be Here.
Ten Physicians Volunteered for the
Work-Squads to be Increased Today.
No New Cases Reported Yesterday
and Last Night-PrecautiOn is Taken.

Shortly before noon Thursday a
meeting of the Board of Health was
held to hear the report of the ply
sicians carrying on experiments to
determine the character of the
sickness causing the death of the
natives in Iwilei district I Drs.
Day, Myers, Herbert and Wood re-
ported that they had found the
true bacilli of Asiatic cholera.//
This decision having been
reached, it was then decided to
follow the suggestion made by DR..
Herbert at Wednesdays meeting
to divide the city into districts,
each under a doctor with assist
ants who shall see that every dis
trict is thoroughly disinfected and
cleansed. Ten doctors volunteered
for the work, and were assigned as
follows:
DIR. MYERS. Section No. I.-Lying
between Palama road and the shore
and from harbor indefinitely west
ward.
DIR. G. HERBERT. Section No. g.
Lying between Palama road and Judd
street and from Liliha street west
ward.
DIR. WATSON. Section. No. s.
Bounded mauka by School street, ma
Iyoi hry 10
and Beretania street, east by Nuuanu
street, west by Liliha street.
DIR. EMERSON. Section No. f.
Bounded mauka by School street. ma
kai by Beretania street, east by Kinau
and Alapai streets, west by Nuuanu
street.
DIR. COOPER. Section No. g.
Bounded mauka by Beretania street,
makai by water front, east by Nuuanu
street, west by harbor and stream.
DIR. WOOD. Section No. g.
Bounded mauka by Beretania street,
makai by the water front, east by
Alakea street, west by Nuuanu street.
DIR. HOWARD. Section No. T.
Lying between Beretania street and
the sea and east of Alakea street.
DIR. SMITH. Section No. Styling
mauka of Beretania street and east of
Kinau and Alapai streets.
DIR. DAY. Section No. 9.-Lying
between School and Judd streets
and between Liliha and PunchbOwl
streets.
DIR. MoNsARRAT. Section No. 10
Nuuanu valley, lying above the line
of Judd street.
These physicians set out with
four assistants and worked till
evening disinfecting in the several
districts with lime and creoline.
Today the squads under the physi-
clans will be increased, and the
work pressed with all dispatch pos
sible. No new cases were reported
yesterday, though one or two sus-
poets were turned in toward even
ing. So far as could be learned,
these proved to be aggravated cases
of diarrhRa.
President Smith stated that the
rumor that a wake was held over
the body Of Lono, the native who
died on Nuuanu street, was entirely
false. No one but attendants was
allowed in the house during the
sickness, and the premises are still
under quarantine. The body was
thoroughly disinfected and buried
soon after death.
The outlook for passengers in
tending TO leave on the Monowai
was not particularly bright last
evening. It was reported that it
was very doubtful whether the
agents would allow the steamer to
take on passengers. The vessel |
will not be brought into port.
The following facts for the peo-
pie regarding cholera and its treat !
ment are culled from a pamphlet !
issued by the California Board of
Health IN the year 1885:
Cholera being essentially a pre- /
UentdbLe disease, all questions con- !
cerning its cause, diffusion, and pre-
ventiOn, must interest the people of /
this coast just now, when Europe IS (
again the theater of its manifesto
tiOns; and as all preventive measures
are based upon the assumption that /
the virus or germ OF the disease Is q !
living organism capable of transmits
sion through water, food, clothing, or
personal contact, and like all living F.
matter, is itself susceptible OF death,
the prevention Of its dissemination,