The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-24

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communication as possible with the
shore. Whenever these vessels decide
10 take either passengers, baggage or
cargo. all are subjected to the disin-
fecting and fumigating processes,
which have been established at the
wharves. Quite number of the ocean
steamers have merely appeared al the
entrance of the harbOr, dropped of the
mail and, without taking a passenger,
have proceeded on their way. The
/ fear of the infection passing into their
vessels, has decided many captains to
( have no intercourse whatever with the
shore, except to drop off passengers.
/ The steamers of the Pacific Mail Com
pany will not take passengers from
Honolulu now under any preteXt.
/ Those passengers intended for the
/ Oceanic COmpany's steamers are re-
quired to pass a fifteen days quaran-
/ tine muster. which is certified to by
/ DR.. Carmichael of the United States
Marine Hospital Service.
As Honolulu is the only district Of
the Island of Oahu officially declared
by the Board of Health TO be infected,
it is not thought that an embargo will
be placed on Oahu sugar shipments at
San Francisco, inasmuch as other
freight is discharged out of steamers
which have called at this port, and car
ried passengers as well. AS to the 9TH
er Islands. their sugar output is con-
sidered as clean as at any. other time,
, and therefore vessels will take on SUI
gar cargoes for the Coast as usual .
II ssssHH slrsfnTn ~ In faII
, against the other districts Of Oahp by
military guards.
Citizens Sanitary Committee.
Representative business houses anC
citizens began TO feel that It was theil
duty to assist the Board of Health il
} making a careful inspection of the city
I and action was taken upon the line o
work performed during the chOler;
, epidemic of 1895. The Council Of Stat
: was again called in extraordinary ses
sion, and appropriated quarter OF I
, million dollars for the suppression o
! the scourge, and the Board of Health
! was given full swing TO act.
D The Chamber of Commerce, Planters
Association and Medical Society, unite
= in UNFOLDING the Board, and out o
: zens' Sanitary Committee, which ]
h composed of the following representa-
y tive citizens: L. A. ThuTston, chair
r man; A. w. Carter, J. II. Fisher,
s F. COlburn, A. Perry, 5. NJ. BallOu, i
Q ID. Tenney, J. A. McCandless, j. c
: Rothwell and J. X. Gait.
a This committee having been author
. lied and empowered by the Board O
: Health to become an executive body
= Immediately subdivided the uninfecte
. portion of the city into forty districts
: an inspector being appointed to eac
! district. These forty districts were /
u turned sub-divided, each OF these j
charge of a sub-inspector; both inspeC
tors and sub-inspectors being vOlu1
teers from every branch Of business
d and in most cases business men. Thei
= duties were to inspect each house, {
y take a census Of the occupants, repoI
all cases of sickness, and report upo
II sanitary conditions. In order that tn
e work should be effective, regulato
: was Issued by the Board OF Health pro
hibiting any one from moving from or
u district to another without a speci'
II permit, and every one was required
u be present or accounted for at che
lie places of residence twice a day to eI
ID daily census. AS a result of two day
l. inspection work the Citizens Sanitar
Of Committee discovered two cases
p plague in outside districts.
n 1t Is not difficult to realize that wit
d such an exhaustive system OF checkin
p, the inhabitants, with such able an
) tried men at the head of the COMM
Is tee, and with a willing community tn
9s the work of this Committee is 4
\ reaching in its effects. The Board I
70 Health already feels a great measure
: responsibility removed, and IL has bee
- thus enabled to direct its attention
- other matters. The Citizens Sanitar
- Committee also had all places
- amusement closed; later the churcht
l. were closed. and yesterday every lars
AZ business house in the city put In
20 effect the Committees plan 20 ope
K their places of business at 10 a. n
ii closing at s p. N. ms enables q
IN Citizens Sanitary Committee 20 MAJ
Id use of hundreds Of other inspectors vi
he were otherwise compelled 20 a0sel
I'd themselves.
lg The Community Unites.
~ In every instance has the communi'
to felt since the New Year began, the e
y fects Of the hearty and self-sacrifcir
re cooperation Of every man, woman ar
s. child. in the fight against the plagu
o. Business has suffered, shipping is lyir
ne almost idle at the whaTves, busine
IN men have closed up their Offices and a
n in charge OF important posts at q
le detention camps where thousands