The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-07-28

ger of contagious diseases appearing
among emfgrants coming from there.
The measures we have taken il
Hongkong and Annoy by the appoint
ment Of DR.. Gregory u. Jordan and Dr.
Hugh Mae Dougall as Sanitary Inspect
ors, and the regulations they viii en-
force. Will be OF great value; but, until
Inspectors are appointed under the
United States Marine Hospital Service
the protection Will be only partial
for most of the steamships sailing from
Chinese ports for Honolulu also have
steerage passengers for San Francisco,
who will not be required TO undergo
inspection or have their clothing and
effects disinfected.
Cholera and smallpox in both China
and Japan and plague in China are
endemic-the emigTants sailing from
these ports usually come from inter
Tor villages where sanitary measures
are less stringently enforced than in
the cities.
1t is not the practice of these people
to destroy infected clothing, and often
such clothing is not disinfected
While the prevalence of cholera and
plague is generally confined to the
summer months, smallpox occurs at
any time. Neither the Chinese nor
Japanese have much fear of smallpox.
And if smallpox appears among the
steerage passengers it is concealed if
possible.
On the last voyage of the S. S. China,
while We were on her, a case of small
pOx occurred which was concealed for
four days. 1t was discovered in YokO-
hama while DR.. EldTidge was making
his inspection
1t is claimed that both Chinese and
the danger of their contracting the dis
ease is slight. There seems to be some
foundation for the statement, and yet
on the voyage over from Yokohama on
the Belgic, when we were on board, of
over 500 Chinese emigrants who were
vaccinated by the surgeon of the ship
90 per cent. took. And out of % Jap
anese emigrants took.
Smallpox is, however, so little feared
in China and Japan that it's presence |
on board is deemed not ground for
quarantining a ship-the sick are re
moved and the ship proceeds with her |
business.
With careful inspection and disin-
lection of clothing at the original port |
of departure, and additional inspection |
at Yokohama, which is the final port |
of departure for Honolulu, the danger !
is very much reduced. Moreover from
eight to ten days elapse from the time
of sailing from Hongkong or Annoy,
before final departure from Yokohama,
which covers the period of incubation
of both cholera and plague.
1t was Tor this reason that we in
structed the Inspectors that, until fur
ther orders, ships with emigrants for
Hawaii, sailing from Chinese ports
must come via Japanese ports.
DUTIES AND COMPENSATION OF
INSPECTORS.
The following named inspectors have
been appointed:
DR.. Stuart EIdridge at Yokohama,
Japan.
DR.. G.. r. NJ. Graham at Kobe Japan
DR.. NJ. Paul at Nagasaki, Japan l.
DR.. Gregory P. Jordan, at Hongkong,i
China II
DIR. Hugh Mac Dougall at Annoy s
China. II
1t seemed to us that the Inspector at t
Yokohama should be made Inspector {
General Cor Chief INSPECTOR for the {
Japanese ports; the others to be sub !
ordinate to him; and in China the In i
spector at Hongkong to be Inspector
General for the Chinese ports, so as L
to insure uniformity of action And V
the inspection at Maya a
saki and Kobe, of ships in transit, to C
be dispensed with excepting in special a
cases. +,
The question of the scale of fees to E
be charged was a matter to which we y
gaze much consideration-the work is :,
important and deserves proper COM -
pensatiOn, and yet the charges should .,
not be made burdensome to the ships. =
Dur conclusions were embodied in d
circular letter which was sent to each .
)f the Inspectors and to the agents of II
he Pacific Mail S. S. Co. at Yokohama
md Hongkong, of which the following
S a copy:
Yokohama, Japan, July Is, 1896 p
Sir:-Until further instructions, the p
OllOwing schedule of fees is estab- a
ished for the compensation of the S
Sanitary Inspectors for Hawaii, for the h
execution of the sanitary inspection of e.
vessels and passengers required by cl
he Hawaiian law upon this subject h
liz:
For each ship, crew and cargo in G.
pected, $25. 90. n
For first 100 passengers for Hawaii r.
4 90 each additional
For all passengers over 100, % cents n
ach additional. ~
In case of ante-embarkation quaran- h
inc, SIS per diem of detention addi- -
ional. =,
And further, the inspection of ships ~
nd passengers, bound from Chinese =,
orts to Hawaii, via Japan, is discon- "
inued at the ports of Nagasaki and s'S
Kobe, unless under special instruc- L
ions from the Sanitary Inspector for g
laval at Yokohama III
l am. sir, etc. "
AT HONGKONG AND
Annoy.
There are no proper facilities for til
isinfecting the clothing of passengers oil
t HOngkong or Annoy. There is a w
mall plant for disinfecting with heat al
d air and steam at the Civil Hospital fl
n HongkOng but it is not available pl
Hinder. the cirn11 u in,