The Hawaiian gazette., 1895-09-10

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the milk supply of the city had been
investigated.
DR.. Wood did not see that such
action could do any good. Milk
should be boiled anyway.
DR.. McGrew was asked to offer
some advice with respect to improv-
ing the cholera situation. He had
seen people fishing in the country
districts. Had learned that it was
absolutely necessary for them to do
this or starve. Some of the places
were so far away from town that ma
tives could not come to the depot OF
supplies of the relief committee.
Would arrangements be made for
sending food into these country dis
tricts? DR.. McGrew thought care
should be taken with respect to clas-
styling every suspicious appearing
sickness as cholera. Careful diagno-
sis should be taken. Did not mean to
criticise the work done by physicians.
Merely wanted to emphasize the need
of care.
President Smith was only afraid
physicians had gone little too far
the other way.
DR.. McGrew, in continuing, said it
was the time of the year when cholera
morbus, disrrhoea and other diseases
akin to these, were prevalent. Called
attention TO the first cases in Luna
! lilo Home.
DR.. Wood said he had been treating
young Hawaiian girl for diarrhoea
for the space of a week and had sue
ceeded in stopping it. Later be had
| traced cholera in three cases to that
girl.
No more business remained to be
transacted and the Board adjourned.
REGARDING STEAMER RIO JANEIRo.
A meeting of the Board of Health
was held Sunday morning at 8 o'clock
instead of the afternoon, as usual.
There were present President Smith,
President Dole, Drs. Emerson, Wood,
Day; Ministers Hatch, Damon and
King; Messrs. Lansing, ]. T. Water
house, Keliipio, Reynolds, Hackfeld,
Suhr, Swanzy, Walker, Giffard, w. F.
Allen, Canavarro, Gonsalves, G. w.
Smith, Kennedy, Mcintyre, Schaefer
and others.
President Smith read the consular
bill af health of the steamer Rio de
Janeiro stating that there were 81 ,575
cholera cases in Japan with 1882
deaths to date from beginning OF pres
ent outbreak. She had 26S Chinese
and 20 japanese immigrants for this
port and had one death at sea. There
were $50 tons of freight for this port
300 tons japanese freight and 260
tons from Hongkong. The question
seemed to be what should be done
with the freight. The immigrants
mad been landed yesterday.
T. F. Lansing moved to have the
steamer placed in quarantine six days
before discharging freight.
J. F. Hackteld said nothing would
be gained by placing the vessel in
quarantine. Fumigate the freight
and then allow her to discharge.
J. T. Warehouse said the danger
would be in the handling of the
freight.
DR.. Wood was of the opinion that
the freight would not be in any safer
condition for handling at the end of
five days than it was at the present
time. 1t should not be landed until
fumigated.
G. w. Smith said fumigating with
sulphur fumes would be sufficient if
kept up long enough. The fumes
would permeate the wood and the in
terror of packages, except sealed me-
talic containers.
w. f. Allen was of the opinion
that if the freight could be properly
fumigated it should be landed. Other
wise it should not.
DR.. Day said the only way Of hav-
ing the work done properly was to
break the original packages and sub
ject them to sulphur fumes for forty
eight hours.
G. w. Smith believed that the
warm, moist air in ships hold was
Just the right medium for propogating
the germs of cholera, and they would
swarm from Que end of the ship to the
other, through the clean freight and
everything else.
T. F. Lansing held that if there was
danger of cholera germs getting down
into the artesian water supply from
the bodies of the cholera victims,
there would he danger to a much
greater degree from freight in the
same hold.
J. A. Gonsalves was Of the opinion
that nothing should be landed except
mails. B. f. Dillingham; agreed with
Mr.. Gonsalves that not a pound of
freight should be landed from the Rio
de Janeiro. Applause.
T. F. Lansing favored notifying the
agents that no freight would be al
lowed to be landed and requesting the
Minister of Foreign Affairs that no
more freight be received from any
japanese port until further notice.
Consul Canavarro said no freight
ought to be allowed to land likewise
no passengers from japan. This was
the time for Honolulu to take radical
measures when her own people were
being stricken. The quarantine sta
ton was needed as hospital for the
sick here. III the disease should get
in among the poor people residing on
the slopes of PuncheOwl there would
be great danger to the children on ac-
count OF their numbers.
DIR. Day said the principle of mod
ern quarantine was to disinfect and |
make clean that which was unclean. |
w. NJ Giffard said, as the freight |
was not absolutely required here,
there would be no hardship encount- |
cred in refusing to allow it to be |
landed.
Motion to recommed not to land |
any freight from the Rio de Janeiro |
carried unanimously.
+. A. Schaefer asked If the vote |
taken covered return of freight from |
San Francisco.
J.B. Atherton said the action taken |
covered return of the freight. The |
general public numbering about sixty |
aitizona ratiPa6 and no