The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-07-30
LEWIS g. CO.,
Agents. Honolulu, r.. i.

one or two new cases daily, instead of 10
and Is, as il was earlier in the season
Annoy.
The mail boats do not touch regularly
al this port. but l was given TO under
stand by the agents that the steamship
Doric going to stop on her home
ward voyage for a cargo OF tea, ana
expected to have an opportunity OF seeing
the Hawaiian Consul and medical IN
Spector. Only hour or two before de-
parture the plans We're changed, and the
steamer went direct to Shanghai. have
learned from various sources that plague
IS epidemic in Annoy, but the consular
bills of health, until recently, have not
mentioned it.
Within the past year the P. NJ. and O.
& o. steamers have made Shanghai one
of their regular way ports. While Ha-
waits interest in Shanghai is very slight,
there having been no Steerage pasSen-
gers cargo from this port to Honolulu,
yet trade and travel may spring up be
tween the two places at any time, and 1t
would be well to have a representative
of Hawaii appointed who can keep the
Hawaiian authorities advised as to the
sanitary condition of the place, give con-
duties that may fall to such an official.
Shanghai is probably the best governed,
ing city in the East. The sanitary con-
dition of the place is excellent. Plague
has never been there, even during 1891
and 1886, when it was raging In Hong-
kong The Municipal Council are on the
alert. however. and have taken steps to
handle the disease should it make its ap-
is made Of all vessels arriving from For
mosa Foo Chow, Annoy and Swallow, and
isolation hospitals for foreigners and ma
tives have been established down the
river, where there will be little risk of
the disease spreading TO the town.
DR.. J, Taylor Grant; municipal surgeon con
sanitatio OF the place. He is kept in
formed as to the existence of contagious
diseases by receiving weekly reports from
the various physicians, and from these
reports he makes up a weekly statement
as to the health of the city.
The principal disease they have to con-
tend against is smallpox, but owing to
the more general use of vaccination. it is
becoming less of a scourge than it form
er!y was DR.. Grant makes the virus,
and it is distributed to the hospitals, pub
lie institutions and physicians gratuit-
ously The Chinese are beginning to ap-
preciate the value of vaccination, and are
more every year.
Cholera is also a disease that appears
every year during the summer months
amongst the Chinese population. So far.
there have been no cases this year
would recommend the appointment of DIT
Grant as sanitary inspector for HAWAII,
in order that he may give the supple
mental bills of health to the steamers,
and in the event Of emgrants leaving
from this port in the future, that he may
perform the other duties appurtaining
to the position.
NAGASAKI.
Dr. NJ. G.. Paul, the sanitary inspector
for Hawaii at this port, since his appoint
ment last year, has had nothing what
ever to do, as no Steerage passengers or
freight have gone from here to Honolulu.
He has not been in the habit of giving
bills of health to the steam
ers, but it would be desirable to have him
do so. At the present time, there is con-
siderable smallpox at Nagasaki.
Ships take coal here, and large num-
of hoard IT,.
Furthermore, both here and at Kobe,
number of peddlers come on board to dis
pose of trnaess 1nn toIrist P %5
a practice which should be stopped, es-
peciaIly during times of epidemics.
While in Nagasaki, DR.: Paul took me
miles down the bay. The officials re-
ceived cordially and went to great |
pains to show us the entire establish |
ment.
All vessels arriving from Formosa and |
China are obliged TO anchor off the quar- |
antine and undergo a rigid inspection. |
arrived from Formosa with case of
plague on board. Two other cases devel- |
oped amongst the passengers while IN
board on arrival, even though but three
days out from Formosa, the ship is al
lowed to proceed into port. 1t is only in
case of there being actual sickness on
board that the ship is detained at quar-
antine
KOBE.
Kobe is port of great Importance to
Hawaii, as il is from here that most of
the Japanese emigrants take their de-
parture and large quantities of freight
are shipped. It is second only to Yokoha-
ma in the amount of shipping, and may
be destined, before many years, to be the
principal port Of Japan. Sake and food
stuffs are the principal exports to Ha>
wall.
Kobe is the home port of most of the
small Japanese tramp steamers, owned
and manned by Japanese. Most of the
emisrants to Hawaii come from this
leighborhood and make, or would like to
make. Kobe the port of departure.
DR.. r. Moore Graham is sanitary in
,pector and acting Hawaiian Consul. He
complains of not having received any no
Hiheation from the Government of the
trouble about the emigrants, who were
'eturned on the Shinshiu Maru, Sakura
Maru and Kinai Maru. For weeks he
lid not know whether the difficulty was
IN account Of some error in carving out
quarantine regulations or not. He also
regrets having no authority to enforce
sseszsse$ IONS, as he has no commission to
lct as Consul.
migrants has been % the disiinfection
II clothing. 90 inspection and after the
decentralization regulations We're re-
eiVed. 80 Segrega tionS. The clothing was
Iuhiected IN s11lnhur f1r1iero+io-l = o. Z
lours in small building on the Prnd,
rom whence it was taken on board the
teamers in lighters.
There is the opportunity now of using
hot-air chamber for disinfection Mr.. |
Allerton has two large steam chambers
n goodwin that are used for the disin-
sction OF rags before shipment 70 the |
United States. Arrangements can be
made with him to use them for disin-
Getting baggage when occasion reolIires. |
these chambers are built OF brick. are "a
Get lon~ 10 feet wide and I feet high
steam pipes run up the Sides and two of