The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-02-08
NOT 4 DEATH
Yesterdays Record Was
An Improvement.
Board Will Quarantine Block 19--Rat-
fence Constructed Rodents
To be Poisoned.

Hartmann's physical condition is quite
strong, and no further enlargement of
the bubo is noticeable.
DIR. Hoffman, stated last evening
that the morgue would be removed to-
day, as matter of convenience and
saving of time, from its present ioca-
ton in the Judiciary grounds to the
old suspect ward of the hospital. This
will concentrate all the plague work |
in one building and will do away with |
the constant moving of bodies through |
the city. The present morgue will be
burned as soon as the transfer can be
made.
Board of Health Meeting.
At the afternoon session of the
Board there were present President
Wood, George w. Smith, DR.. Day, F.
NJ Hatch and F. J. Lowrey.
The most important feature of the
session was the consideration OF the
quarantine to be established around
Block 10 in that portion bounded by
| Chaplain lane, Nuuanu, Hotel and
Fort streets. THE Board was consci-
entious in its discussion, and viewed
the question from every standpoint. 1t
was suggested that the block as above
bounded be declared infected with
plague and condemned. This met with
some objection, as it was thought that
perhaps parts of the block could be
made sanitary, and the rats. if any,
could be exterminated. To carry out
the latter suggestion, one of the mem
bers proposed that a rat-proof fence
be erected around the block and force
of men be put inside It's boundaries to
kill the rats.
The question of what to do with the
people in the block was discussed the
greater part of the afternoon. 1t was
! suggested that most of them be placed
in a special quarantine with the priv
ilege OF going to their usual places of
business, to report twice a day at a
designated point for medical inspec-
ton, after the plan so successfully
carried out at the Arlington Hotel.
When the quarantine was placed on
the hotel, every person therein was re-
, quired to present himself at a given
J point to submit to medical inspection
J twice a day. The alternative was CIV
J en- that if any one failed in doing this
, he would be sent to one of the quaran-
, | tine camps.
III AS to the Asiatics within the block
: who are in the habit of sleeping on
I the premises in which they work, the
4 Board thought it best to send them
into such guarantees as their fellow
. countrymen have undergone. One
member stated that the medical in
spectors can always place their hanC
upon the white residents of any parti
cular block; with the Chinese and Jap
anese it was entirely different. Once
given his liberty, he had habit Of
sneaking away and keeping himself
concealed.
Mr. Hatch acting upon the genera
opinion of the Board with respect tt
quarantining the block as above
mapped out, presented the following
resolution:
Resolved, that block 10, to wit, ths
block bounded by Fort, Chaplain lane
Nuuanu and Hotel streets, be place.
in quarantine until the further ordel
of this Board, in consequence of the
occurrence of plague in said block; anC
that the residents in said block be re
moved and held in quarantine for fiji
teen days, and that tight board fenc,
be at once erected around this block.
The resolution was unanimousl!
adopted, and President Wood proceed
ed to put the same into effect with re
gard to the rat proof fence. Mr.. Rus
sell, who is the contractor at presen
erecting the fence around the old quar-
antined district was sent for, and in
structions were issued to him to erec
rat-proof fence around block Ii
composed mostly of iron sheets Sc
leLgthwise into the ground and extend
ing about three inches below the sur
face.
President Wood stated that Nj
: Crozier of the Honolulu Iron Work
had suggested taking the twisted cor
rugated iron roofing, lying around il
the burnt district, having it rolled on
at the Iron Works, and utilized in tn
construction of such fences. The sug
gest1on was unanimously approved il
the Board by the adoption of a motiol
embodying the suggestion.
Difficulties of Quarantine.
I Speaking of the block to be place
\ under quarantine, President Wood sal
v that the district was different fror
most OF the places the Board has ha
to deal with AS an instance he quot
ed the inmates of the large house o
South street in which a case OF plagu
occurred. There are class of IRE
sponsible Asiatics who run away a
the first opportunity, and the Board ha
difficulty in keeping watch on then
The inmates of block 10 were 'foT
eigners" for the most part, and the in
r spectors knew where to locate each per
. son. He favored removing all of ther
m in order that the interior of the bloc
could be cleaned out and the plae
cleared of rats. The drill shed was pre-
posed as place where the people h
thought would be willing to go into
semivoluntary quarantine. The pres
/ ent inmates could be moved out da
3 or two ahead OF time and the plac
4 could be made habitable for foreign
7 ers," by putting on a large force c
carpenters at once.
Mr.. Cooper stated that according
his figures, the japanese were to leav