The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-03
TO RUN NO RISKS
WITH CHINATOWN
Owners OF Property in Burnt District
Impatient at Delay of
Sol Report.

AT The meeting of the BOARD of Health
yesterday report from Mr.. Edwards
containing rules and regulations con-
corning sanitation AMI plumbing in
Honolulu, was referred to, but as Dr.
wood suggested, the matter really call
ed Tor a special meeung..
The Board decided toStake up the
matter at o'clock on Friday afternoon
| Dr. wood had conference with the
Executive Council in the morning ana
that body hau spoken to him concern
ing the appointment of Sanitary In
! spector, beng OF the opinion that 1t
was the office of the Board to appoint
such an omcer. The Council also had
much to say on the disposition to be
made of the detention camps.
The appointment OF a plumbing in
spector Will be taken up with the other
business at Fridays special Board
meeting.
DR.. Wood announced that all camps
were closed except Kalihi, and that a
! great proportion of goods were now in
the drillshed. He was in favor OF
! keeping all those things now at Kalihl
camp right there until it is certain that
| there is to be no recrudescence of the
plague. He went on to say that, in his
I conference with the Executive Council,
| he had requested that the quarantine
! wharf be left as it is. This would
! come in very handy at time when
| steamers or other vessels from infect
! ed ports had to be dealt with for the
! city's safeguarding.
| A plan for a new morgue, hospital
| dispensary and laboratory, all in one
/ building, had been submitted to the
! Board Of Health by DIR. Howard
! Executive Officer DR.. Garvin was in
| structed by the Board to arrange with
! Auctioneer Morgan for the sale of the
unused goods from different camps
now stored in the drillshed.
! DR.. Hoffman, reported On various
specimens of soil taken from the sup
posedly infected districts and said that
| in several of these specimens bacillI
with decided polar staining had been
! found, but that the isolation has not
t yet been completed. DR.. Wood ex-
planned at length the nature of the
| work which had to be done before the
final report on the soil from the burnt
! districts could be made. The special
committee in this matter was working
with all due regard to the anxiety OF
the public, Chinatown property owners
] especially, 10 KNOW WUdL QlSpOSiIIOI
was to be made of the burnt districts
1T would be terrible thing for the
plague to break out here again." said
the doctor, land we are doing every
thing in our power to guard against
any such possibility. We have got tc
look out for the plague for another six
months at least, and it would be a very
wrong thing for us to open up the dis
tricts that bred the bubonic disease un-
til we have every assurance that it is
safe to do So"
Mr.. c. Bolte, speaking for the many
persons who had come to him for in
formation in LIE matter, asked the
board many questions in regard to the
opening up of Chinatown or portion
thereof, advancing disinfecting schemes
as possibly advisable for adoption.
/ Il am not ready to remove the China
town BARRIERS said Dr. Wood, until
all danger is past. l want the property
owners ana the merchants and the peo-
pie to understand that we will run nc
risks in this matter and that we won't
be beaten at the last in our fight against
the plague. We are doing our best for
everybody concerned, and if those
financially interested in Chinatown
could but appreciate the danger of act
iLg hastily they would cease to COM
plain of the slowness with which the
report on the soil is being prepared"