The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-09-09

DullUlDS, l-AtO, WOulu be COhplclSu
Sunday and supplies for workmen
sent down to the camp as soon as pos
sible. The same party which had
been employed digging graves on the
Makiki Punchbowl slope would do the
work at the new place.
President Smith asked that he be
given the authority to appoint j. A.
Cassidy and w. i. Wilcox agents of
the Board of Health. Unanimously
granted.
President Smith thought it neces-
sary to put the Mokolii in quarantine
at once for the purpose OF conveying
supplies to the settlement at Molokal.
They were running short OF supplies
1t was decided to allow no vessel
of any description whatever to leave
this port for ports on the other ISL
ands without written permit from the
Board of Health. This action was
taken on account of certain sailing
vessel trying to leave port lately.
President Smith recommended rails
ing of quarantine on several places.
Rufus Spalding wanted to know if
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.
DIR. 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
tiyes could not come 10 the depot of
supplies OF the relief committee.
Would arrangements be made for
sending food into these country dis
tricts? DIR. 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 a little too far
the other way.
DIR. McGrew, in continuing, said it
was the time OF the year when cholera
mcrbus, diarrhoea and other diseases
akin TO these, were prevalent. Called
attention to the first cases in Luna
lilo Home.
DIR. Wood said he had been treating
a young Hawaiian girl for diarrhoea
for the space of q week and had sue
ceeded in stopping 1t. Later he 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 9 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, ]. Il. Water
house, Keliipio, Reynolds, Hackfeld,
Subr, Swanzy, Walker, Giffard, w. F.
Allen, Canavarro, Gonsalves, Ct. w.
Smith, Kennedy, Mcintyre, Schaefer
and others.
President Smith read the consular
bill az health of the steamer Rio de
Janeiro stating that there were q $40
cholera cases in Japan with 1882
deaths to date from beginning Of pres !
emit outbreak. She had 263 Chinese |
and 20 japanese immigrants for this
port and had one death at sea. There
were $50 tons of freight for this port
800 tons Japanese freight and 26O |
tons from Hongkong. The question |
seemed to be what should be done |
with the freight. The immigrants |
had been landed yesterday.
Il. +. Lansing moved to have the |
steamer placed in quarantine six days |
before discharging freight.
J. F. Hackfeld said nothing would |
be gained by placing the vessel in |
and then allow her to discharge.
J. L. 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. +. Allen was of the opinion
that if the freight could be properly
fumigated it should be landed. Other
wise 1t should not.
DIR. 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.
O.. w. Smith believed that the
warm, moist air in a ships hold was
just the right medium for propogating
the germs of cholera, and they would
swarm from one 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.
]. A. Gonsalves was of the opinion
that nothing should be landed except
mails. b. +. 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