The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-03-20

The Board OF Health met at the usu-
al time yesterday afternoon with Pres
ident Wood DR.. Emerson, Dr. Day and
Messrs. Smith. Hatch and Cooper pres
ent. After the reading OF the minutes
OF the preceding meeting. the Board
lurned its attention to the various
matters demanding consideration.
DIR. Garvin's Letter.
President Wood then read commu-
nication from Or. Garyin of Kahului,
Maui, as follows:
Kahului, Maui, March II, 1900
Or. c. B. Wood, Honolulu, IL. !.
Dear Sir: | have but LITTLE of i'm
portance to report since my last letter
discovered plague bacilli in another
rat found dead near the warehouses
March 10th. The rat-proof fence is
competed around the town and the
railroad. The wharf has been carefully
cleaned, whitewashed and treated with
sulphuric acid Nearly all the people
have been removed from town into
camp. | have been obliged to erect
several small cottages for the accom-
mediation of the white families, which
caused some delay.
There have been no cases of sickness
in or around the town except of the
most trivial nature, for two weeks The
final disposition of the Kahului store,
warehouses and the town itself is
awaited with much interest. The sani-
tary committee suggested building a
rat-proof fence around the store and
principal warehouses in the hopes of
catching the rats known to be infected,
but other matters were more pressing
just al present.
The feasibility of killing all the rats
Is matter of some doubt to me.
Very truly,
C. l.. GARVIN.
DIR. Garvin sent word under date of
March IA, as follows: There are no
deaths and no suspicious cases yester-
day nor today"
Dr. Wood recommended that a new
warehouse or new store, whichever
was desired, should be erected, to which
goods could be removed from the Ka-
hulu store where an infected rat was
found. In this way the goods could be
disinfected or fumigated and taken to
the new building outside the enclosure
and stored. After this, rat-proof
fences could be erected around the in
fected premises and they could be
treated as the health authorities on
Maui see fit. This recommendation of
DR.. Woods was put in the form of
motion by Lowrey, seconded by Hatch
and carried by the Board.
Here DR.. doffmann telephoned to the
Board that he had found Seu Kan to
be genuine case of plague.
| Upon this definite information Smith
moved and Emerson seconded that the
premises from which Seu Kan had
originally come, the Kwong zee stables
described above, should be destroyed by
fire as they were infected by plague,
in an insanitary condition, a source of
filth and cause of sickness. 1t was
unanimously resolved that the premises
should be burned.
The condemned property includes the
Kwong zee stables and several other
buildings from the mule paddock to the
premises OF Mr.. Brasil
Authority to Contract Bills.
Hatch moved that all authority to
contract and approve bills be with
drawn from all persons except the regu-
lar employees of the Board of Health
and the Finance Committee. The mo-
ton was carried.
Dr. Wood read letter from the FL
nance Committee concerning the reduc-
| ton OF expenses, as follows:
Honolulu, March Is, 1900.
DR.. c. B. Wood, President Board of
Health, Honolulu.
Dear Sir: AS your finance committee
are passing pay rolls for the first half
of the month. we beg 10 call the atten-
tion of your Honorable Board to several
matters, with view of greater econo-
my from now on, II 1t is possible that
such can be practiced.
Your committee is not in a position
to understand all the demands and
necessities for these items, and 1t is
only to direct your attention to them,
and not to criticise, that we make men
ton of the following:
In pay roll of March 10, duly approx
ed by yourself and c. b. Reynolds, we
note cost of ambulance:
Night and day, l man with horse,
Is days at $3.50 per day, $112.50; 2
men, So per day each, Is days, $3.50;
2 men, S. per night each, Is nights,
$3.50; total cost attendants for ambu-
lance. $41250
We do not know how much the am
bulance has been used, but It would
seem as II this expense could be mate
rally reduced by calling upon some
other department for assistance when
necessary.
We beg also to suggest that the ex-
pense OF guards and superintendent
OF the kerosene warehouse be cut
down by removal OF all quarantine pa
tients to Kalihi. We understand the
premises are used chiefly at this time
for incurables. and II such Is the case,
II would seem hardly necessary. or
right. to have the bubonic plague ap-
preparation stand such expense for
guards and superintendent to keep
such patients on the premises. The
cost OF labor only for this department
the past fifteen days amounts to
s661.30.
In payroll of March Is. approved by
O. n ReVnOlda and Yourself for re-