The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-04-13
BOARD OF HEALTH
Report of Investigation of
Kinai Maru Affair.
Quarantine of Inspection Officers
Ordered - Additional
Guards.

At special meeting of the Boart
of Health, $50 o'clock yesterday morn
| ing, there were present the following
President Cooper, Drs. Wood anG
| Emerson; Messrs. Lansing, Keliipio
Brown and Reynolds. President Coop
er stated that the object of the meet.
ing was to take action on the report OF
DR.. Day in regard to the smallpox out
break at the quarantine station.
DR.. Day reported that he, while max
ing his usual round of examination OF
the Japanese at the quarantine sta
ton, had found two men with signs
of smallpox One was a well-marked
case, the other not so plain. The men
were sent to the hospital. DR.. Day
then told of the landing of the Japan
csc from the Kinai Maru Friday, of the
clean bill of health presented by the
steamer, and the assurance that all the
usual precautions had been complied
with The effects and clothing of the
Japanese had all been disinfected. The
examination finished, DR.. Day reported
having gone aboard the Kinai Maru.
The captain acknowledged that one
man had died on the trip to Honolulu
and had been buried at sea. 1t was not
from smallpox, however, that death
resulted. but from fall down the
hatch This seemed rather peculiar,
as the matches of a vessel at sea are
usually kept closed. DR.. Day recon-
mended that the board take immediate
action.
DR.. Wood thought that the Japanese
should be examined as to whether they
had any right to remain in the coun-
try. The rejected ones should be put
on board the Kinai Maru again and
sent home. President Cooper conceded
in this opinion, and said that the in
veStigation should continue immediate
ly after the board meeting.
DIR. Wood made a motion that the
examination into the status of the i'm
migrants be finished Immediately and
that those who had been, or would be-
engaged in the work, should be vac
cinated at the completion and placed
in quarantine until released by the
board. Carried.
President Cooper announced that Mr..
J. B. Castle had offered his home, Wal
kiki, as a quarantine place. This was
favorable to the board.
Dr. Wood moved that all the Jap
anese refused a landing be sent back
to the Kinai Maru. Carried.
Dr. Wood then moved that all those
who had been at the examination Of
Japanese on Saturday and who were to
continue the work, be sent for and vac
cinated This he offered to do himself.
Carried.
The board thought it best to send
physician to the quarantine station to
make two inspections daily. DR.. Myers
was offered the position, and upon APP
pearing before the board, asked for an
hours consideration of the matter.
J. d. McVeigh's request for eight ad-
ditional guards was granted, and
Health Agent Reynolds instructed to
make necessary arrangements.
Agent Reynolds asked question in
regard to the Japanese 'man-of-war,
now due, and was told that upon ar
rival of any vessel from Japan, the
commander was to be given to under
stand that an IS days quarantine
would be strictly enforced, and that he
must not bring his vessel inside with
out the permission of the board.
At 10 o'clock the board adjourned.