The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-08-10
HOG PENS MUST GO
The Board Of Health Takes DeCi-
SiVp Action.
A WAIKIKI OFFICIALS REPORT
Three Weeks Routine Business Finished Ua-
Var,ogs Reports Acted on-Dr Hoffman
Appointed.
A WAIKIKI OFFICIAL REPORT

| At the meeting of the Board of
Health yesterday afternoon there were
present Attorney General Cooper, DR..
/ Wood, DR.. Day, DR.. Emerson. George
w. Smith, Agent Reynolds and Clerk
Wilcox.
| The minutes Of July 18th, the last
public session of the board, were read
and approved.
| DR.. Emerson presented a tabulated
, statement compiled from the Medical
! Record, showing the number of cases
of smallpox in what may be termed
the present epidemic in the United
States. The report showed a total of
1913 cases from a large number of the
States for period of about three
weeks. Only two deaths were noted
On the Pacific Coast eight cases were
noted from Walla Walla, Washington,
two from Oregon and none from Cali
fOrnia.
President Cooper said the report was
valuable as bearing on the restrictions
placed on passengers from California
and the necessity of continuing the
same.
DR.. Day said the epidemic was re-
markably mild in it's FORM With re-
gard to the restrictions, so many peo-
pie had been coming in that it was al
most impossible to keep trace of them.
Various reports from the slaughter
houses and fish market were read:
! DR.. Emerson remarked on the ne
cessity of keeping the inspection of
| fish up to the mark all the time.
| Agent Reynolds reported that he had
investigated a number of cases report
ed to him but had found no foundation
for the charges that the bad fish had
come from the ice-house. On the con-
trary, on the days mentioned there had
been no fish in storage.
Routine reports were read from the
Food Inspector and under the Act to
| Mitigate. The milk report showed an
| improvement in the quality Of the milk
lall along the line, with one exception,
which will come up in court.
President Cooper reported the reSig
nation of DR.. Alvarez as physician in
charge of the Kalihi receiving station,
as of July 22d.
When the reports of the various hos
lpitals were received, President Cooper
called attention to the fact that the
appropriations for the hospitals were
becoming beautifully less. About
So 900 remained to last for the remain
| ing five months of the period with bills
on hand for last month amounting to
about $1,000. The greatest economy
would have to be observed for the rest
of the year. The appropriation for
general expenses was also running
very low, there being only $4,000 re-
naming.
Dr. Moore of the Hilo Hospital, who
was present at the meeting, reported
that in the last three months there
had been thirty-one cases of fever
treated at the hospital, with three
deaths. Two of these, however, had
occurred within a day of reaching the
hospital. The fever was of a typhoid
malarial nature, but he thought it was
not due to local conditions-drinking
water etc.-aS a number of the cases
had come from Olaa district, through
which the fever appeared to be gener-
al. The matter of slaughter houses
and stables near the hospital was also
touched upon, but mo action taken.
DR.. Moore also told of the success of
the new fishmarket in ridding Front
street of the fish stalls, and called at
tention to the necessity of having pig
pens and duck-pens removed from the
city limits, the Odor arising there
from being very offensive. The Doc
tor was asked to make a special re-
port on this matter and define the linn
it's from which it was sought to eXpel
the hog-pens. The matter would then