The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-12
THREE DEAD YESTERDAY



Wo Chan Company and Poi kau, ox.
tending mauka 20 premises occupied
by Ping Chan. be considered source
Of filth and incapable Of being purified
other than by FIRE, and being In the vi
entity ~ premises already infected by
plague. the same are condemned and
ordered destroyed by fire"
by this means two objects can be at
tanned; one, the radiance OF a block
which the Board considers az infec-
tious, and the second an opportunity
TO extend both streets above named
without an obstruction.
The Board commenced It's tour OF
inspection shortly before 10 o'clock
yesterday morning, and concluded its
work by l o'clock.
Board of Fe7l'h Meeting.
The Board of Health met again yes
terday afternoon at o'clock, there
being present at the opening of the
meeting President Wood, in the chair,
DIR. Emerson, George w. Smith and
+. NJ. Hatch. Attorney General Cooper
Joined the Board after the conclusion
of the Council of State meeting. A
representative from each of the large
shipping houses was present, namely,
+. Give Davies John Ena. +. A. SChae
fer, r. f.. Bishop and w. VOTERS.
These gentlemen were there to call the
attention of the Board to several COM
munications which they had received
from their Hilo representatives rela
tive to the acts of the Sheriff of Hawaii
in his capacity as executive agent of
the Board of Health. These communi-
cations variously stated that the Sher-
iff had evidently exceeded the powers
granted him by the Honolulu Board of
Health, in that he had instructed his
deputy sheriffs, who are deputy health
agents, to enforce certain health regu-
lations of his own manufacture which
were in direct contradiction to the
provisions adopted in Honolulu by the
Board to prevent the spread of the
plague to the other Islands. One in
stance was cited in which the deputy
sheriff at Hamakua ordered a steamer
and schooner on January 18th and Sth.
respectively, to proceed to Hilo and
there fumigate both passengers and
cargo before returning to Hamakua,
after which the vessels would be al
liberty to unload at that particular
landing. 1t was stated that both YES
sells were from Honolulu, had health
permits allowing them to land their
cargo without further fumigaton or
detention, as all the cargo had al
ready undergone strict fumigation, and
the passengers had undergone
the necessary quarantine. Not
withstanding this fact the Sheriff of
Hawaii had seemingly enlarged upon
the authority delegated him as health
agent, and arbitrarily had made regl
lations which the lizard of Health
would not be in a position to accede
to. 1t was also mentioned that one of
the Sheriff's regulations had been that
all mail should be taken, contents re-
moved from the envelopes and the lat
ter destroyed.
Mr.. Smith of the Board said: 81
would like to call your attention to
the statement of the Sheriff of Ha-
wall opening the mail in Hilo and de-
stroying the envelopes. 1t seems to
me that he Is likely to get himself into
trouble with the postoffice authorities"
President Wood: "Mr. Cooper wrote
letter to Sheriff Andrews the other
day which evidently had not reached
him when these letters of complaint
were written"
The letter, in portions, read as fol-
lows;
Honolulu January 9.
L. A. Andrews, Sheriff. Hilo: l un-
derstand from the protest that We
have just received from the Hilo Mer-
camille Company, Theo. Fl. Davies and
Hackfeld & Co. that you have insti
tuted an eight days quarantine as
against Honolulu. This quarantine
the Board considers entirely unneces-
sary. No freight is allowed to leave
here without the approval of the agent
of the Board Of Health. All Chinese
and Japanese freight is thoroughly flu
migated and marked before being al
lowed to leave Honolulu. No passen-
gers are allowed to leave except they
perform a satisfactory quarantine,
which permission is always noted on
the bill of health. There is certainly
no call for either anger or distrust on
the part of your people. We have a
competent Board of Health, who are
watching very narrowly every matter
connected with the subject under dis
cussion.
1t certainly was, from our stand
point, very unnecessary to put the con-
tract Japanese laborers under a fur
Their quarantine, as they have had no
communication whatever with Homo
lulu, and had performed their full
twenty-one days quarantine at the
quarantine station.
HENRY e. COOPER,
President Board of Health.
Mr.. Hatch: I'VE can remove him If
he does not carry out the instructions
of the Board. think 1t would be a
wise move to appoint the doctors in
the different districts of Hawaii as
Board OF Health agents, and let the
Sheriff receive instructions from
them"
DR.. Emerson: II think we will have
to call to account the Sheriff. our
agent, II he dsregards, or sets aside, or
goes outside of our authority"
President Wood: ut Is not neces-
sary that the Sheriff be the whole pooh
BAH"
The merchants letters contained
clauses to the effect that Hllo suffered
considerably from the arbitrary actions
of the Sheriff, and the people there
did not want such rigid health restric-
n