The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-04-15
BOARD OF HEALTH
Matters Regarding Quarantine
Attended to.
ACTION REGARDING IMMIGRANTS
Quarantine at Waikiki to
be Enforced.
Vessels From Infected Ports to be
Ouarantined - Crematory to
be Established.

At the regular meeting of the Board
of Health yesterday afternoon DR..
Wood took the chair as temporary
chairman, on account of the quarantin-
ing of Minister Cooper at Waikiki. The
others present were: Drs. Day and
Keliipio and Reynolds. Minutes of the
previous meeting read and approved.
Fish Inspector Keliipio's report for
the week ending Sunday, April II,
showed 4O,524 fish received at the mar
ket
Under the act to mitigate, DR.. Mon
sarrat's report showed 70 examinations
for the past week.
The regular report of Mr.. Meyers in
regard to the state of affairs at the
leper settlement on MoIokai was read
and filed. Nothing of much import
ance was contained therein.
A communication from Attorney
General Smith in regard to the quaran-
tine regulations in the United States
Marine Hospital Service and the pc
riod of quarantine governing plague
was read
A communication from Minister
Cooper to the president of the Board
of Health was to the effect that the
Government desired an investigation
into the origin of the cases of small
pox among the immigrants from the
steamship Kinai Maru, who are now in
quarantine at Mauliola.
Health Agent Reynolds said that he
had communicated with Mr.. McVeigh
in regard to the matter, and had
learned that an investigation had been
made: also. that the immigrants all
furnished the same story in regard to
the japanese who is supposed to have
had his neck broken by falling down
the hatch. They denied in toto the
story that there had been smallpox
developed aboard on the trip from
Japan TO this port. Whether they had
been coached by the officers of the ship
to say nothing about the affair could
not be learned.
DR.. Wood was in favor of advising
DR.. Emerson to proceed at once with
an investigation into the condition of
the immigrants and to look especially
for any signs of the recent markings of
smallpox.
Dr. Day then gave the members of
the board some idea of how the Jap
anese could have fallen down the
hatch. The officers, of the Kinai Maru
and the immigrants all told the same
story. It seems that at certain times
during the day the matches of the
steamer were opened for the purpose
Of ventilation. 1t was at one of these
ho+ hn cla
near the hatch. The ship gave a roll. !
a lurch or made some other sudden
and the Japanese fell down
into the hold with the result of brok-
en- neck. No amount Of investigation
could bring forth anything further. DR..
Day said that there must have been
smallpox or varioloid aboard the Kinai
Maru. Upon investigation, the crew OF
the steamship, the mem bers had been
to the waist, but no marks of
any kind could be found. The cIew was
to be found among the Japanese at the
quarantine station if it is to be taken
for granted that the man who broke
his neck" did not have smallpox or va
riloid.
DR.. Day further remarked that it
would be an easy matter for mild
case of varioloid to be developed
aboard ship without detection by the
doctor. Probably the Japanese were
not examined once from the time they
left Japan until they arrived at this
port. Examination at sea was no easy
matter.
Health Agent Reynolds informed the
board that he had been TO Waikiki to |
confer with Minister Cooper and had |
entered the Castle premises. where the |
quarantined people are now situated. |
Just here came an objection which |
started in a chatting mood at first, but |
which ended in several of the mem |
bers of the board becoming quite |