Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-09-28
NO CAUSE FOR ALARM.
San Francisco People Think They Are
ProofAgainst Cholera.


mission of cholera into the city of
San Francisco, neither the press
nor the people seem to be at Ill |
alarmed about it. Like Honolulu
until the present time San Frar
cisco has never had cholera with
in its limits and for m ny reasons
it is asserted that she never will
have if ordinary sanitary precau-
tons and prudence continue to
be exercised. Discussing the
matter editorially the Call gives
the following reasons why there
is no cause for alarm:
1t is refreshing to observe
that the people of San Francisco
are cherishing no alarm whatever
by reason of cholera in Honolulu
and Yokohama. We may be sure
that the steamship companies
plying between San Francisco and
those ports will take no chances
in hopelessly tying themselves
up in quarantine by indulging in
any carelessness, and that in
simple self-preservation they will
sedulously avoid all risks of bring
ing cholera to this port. In al
dition to this check we have rigid
quarantine laws and ample ma
chinery for their diljgent appli-
cation.
"But far gre4ter protection
than any which human efficiency
can devise is our climate itself,
whose benefcient characteristics
are made perfectly operative by the
topography of the City. This is a
very remarkable combination of
circumstances, and they have no
parallel in the world. There is
still another element OF safety in
the rivers. AS watercourses are
the great conveyers of such di-
seases, and as the rivers of Cali
fornia afford a protection rather
than offer menace, the whole
State is peculiarly fortunate.
These rivers rise in the remote
unsettled mountains, where infec.
tious disease cannot originate.
The streams do not furnish a
supply for domestic use, and
empty into salt water before
reaching the more densely popu-
lated part of the State. Hence
they must be wholly eliminated
from all estimates of danger.
"This brings us back to the
peculiar climate and topography
of the city. The steep gradients
insure perfect drainage and the
constant winds, always from the
ocean and never from any part OF
the land which might happen tc
be afflicted, act as a purifier in,
stead of a menace. They are
ocean winds, heavily charged with
ozone, and are essentially cura,
tive.
1--WE need look no further thar
the history of San Francisco and
the State at large with regard tc
dangerous epidemics for a con,
firmation of tina. which reason
. suggests. 1t has been more thar
forty years since cholera visited
the State, and then it was con-
fined to the, squalid sections O.
one or two interior towns, having
gained no foothold in San Fran
, cisco whatever. In those days
in the places where it did oc
cur, there were no such things az
sewers and no care was taken il
the kind of water used. Cholert
would be as impossible in those
localities now as it has always beer
in San Francisco. This is {
wonderful record in view of thu
fact that San Francisco is the
gateway between the United States
and the regions of the Orien
which are always more or lesl
afflicted with cholera.
ut is a clear understanding O
all these matters that explains til,
lack of alarm among San Fran
ciscans whenever cholera appear
in a virulent form in the Orient o