The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-09-13
Board of Health Discusses Advisa-
bility Of Changing 1t TO Iwilei.
PETITION By JAPANESE TRADERS.
Proposition to Use Pacific Mall Dock
as a ouarantined Shipping Depot.
People from Cholera Infected Dis
tricts to be Removed Today. Etc.

At a meeting of the Board o.
Health held yesterday afternoon
there were present President Smith
Ministers Hatch and Damon, Drs.
| Day, Wood, Emerson and Ryder,
Messrs. Thurston, A. W. Carter,
Schmidt, Hackfeld, G. w. Smith,
Macfarlane, J. Colburn, Kane,
Wilcox, Keliipio, J. T. Waterhouse,
| Rowel, Gonsalves, Jones, Ena,
MeStocker, Robertson, Lansing,
Kinney, Giffard, McCandless,
Dodge, Stanley, Wight, Marshal
Brown, Prof. Alexander, Rev. D..
P. Birnie and several Japanese
merchants.
President Smith read the follow
ing report from the committee to
which was referred the proposition
of the trustees of the Planters
Labor and Supply Company on
Mail as quarantine wharf:
The suggestions made by the trus-
tees in regard to the use of the Pacific
Mail wharf meets with their ap-
| proval. They are practical and will,
if faithfully executed, meet the re-
quirements of a proper quarantine. It
| will enable clean freight, handled by
clean men, to be sent on clean vessels
to the other islands, thus relieving
the distress that may arise from lack
! of supplies.
It rests with the Board to decide
whether-it shall abide by the arbi-
trary rule it has hitherto followed of
allowing only the absolute necessities
of life to be shipped to the other ISL
ands, or to expand 6ut not to reL0E its
and equally harmless articles of mer-
chandise for shipment.
1t is the opinion of the committee
founded upon the experiences of other
countries and supported by the quar-
antine regulations of the United
States that the contagium of cholera
is not carried in new merchandise.
There is no instance on record of the
disease being spread by this medium.
The Board of Health would be
neglecting its duty if it did not pro-
tress that Is sure to follow in certain
districts if the epidemic lasts consid-
cradle length Of time. It has already
endeavored to do so to limited de-
gree, but the suggestions of the trus-
tees are more comprehensive and if
strictly followed ought to satisfy any
rational person as to the absolute
safety of the goods thus dealt with.
The details of the plan have been
carefully thought out and leave prac-
tically nothing for the committee 20
add. OF course, it is understood that |
the ships that enter the harbor shall |
remain in strict quarantine, that the |
water Of the bay shall be used for no |
purpose whatsoever.
Following is the proposition to |
utilize the Pacific Mail dock and |
adjoining warehouses as a quaran-
tine, freight and shipping depot as
presented by w. NJ. Gifard at |
Tuesdays meeting of the Board Of |
Health
l. Procure from Hackfeld 6c Co., the
old Pacific Mail warehouse, board up
each end of alley way between ware
Eva side of said dock and Likelike |
wharf.
>. Provide ventilation in the ware
house and erect hunks for say twenty
five or thirty native dock laborers,
and provide earth closets at lower end
Of alley way.
3. Fumigate the warehouse thor
Oughly and disinfect the dock.
4. Engage twenty, five or thirty ma
tive dock laborers, together with one
native stevedore, one reliable freight
and two good shipping
clerks. (The latter should be accus-
toned to handle freight on the docks.)
3. Thoroughly battle and disinfect
The labOrers and other employees, and |
-umigate all their clothing, bedding,
ETC., before being placed on said quar-
,ntined premises.
6. Food supply TO be such as may be
allowed by the Health authorities,
same to be delivered at the outer gate
If said quarantined premises.
{. Place upon guard, at the outer /
rate of said premises, two police or
guards, under strict orders to
prevent contact with persons from the
outside.
S The undersigned agents of regular
packets bringing freight and provis
Ons from the coast, will agree by and
With the consent of the consignees of
he freight, to use their best endeavors ;
o communicate with vessels coming
o their consignment, and provide for
he discharge Of all, or part of the pro