The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-01
FROM ANOTHER SOURCE.
Sanitary Committee Gets no Reply
20 Its Request.

The following is taken from the Hi
10 Tribune Of December 3Oth, 1899:
The interest of the health authOri-
| ties in the welfare of Hilo and the Isl
and of Hawaii is truly touching. and
is manifested in 50 many ways that il
makes ones head 50 round in trying
| to keep tab on them all.
Sheriff Andrews has sent TO Homo
lulu BY previous steamers the names
of those VINO had been chosen on the
sanitation committee for the various
districts OF the Island with the re-
quest that they be granted commits
sions and given authority TO act for
the suppression of plague should il
break out; and in any case for its pre-
ventioL. by compelling sanitary meth
DDS. No answer of any kind has been
received to this very reasonable re-
quest. and the local condition of this
Island, so far as these matters are
concerned, seenis to be not of the
slightest consequence to the Board of
Health. Said a prominent gentleman
on THURSDAY: Just why quarantine
should have been declared in HOnolu-
la when cases of the plague were
doubtful, and raised when there is no
longer any doubt that the plague does
exist and cases of it have proven fatal
in every quarter of the city. one finds
il hard to fathom. Also. one looks in
vain for a good reason why the Board
Of Health should grant permits to the
people of Honolulu to go anywhere
they wish on that and the other ISL
ands. utterly ignorant as they must be.
whether such persons az already in
fected, since. as was said above. il is
all over Honolulu.
THE case of the Chinaman. who
left the quarantine quarter after the
quarantine was so unwisely raised.
went TO the other side of Oahu, re-
manned there a few days, while the
germs with which he was infected were
incubating. and returned TO Honolulu
last Sunday. dying the same day-this
case is exactly in line with he point
the Tribune is endeavoring to make.
That the Board of Health should ig-
more the actual state of affairs, which
is youChed for by the most competent
physicians of Honolulu. Is an outrage
upon all outside the infected center. Ii
is done seemingly to favor certain COM
mercial interests and is very liable TO
result in the greatest injury TO the
whole country, those interests in
Guided"
The Kinau was met on her arrival by
a delegation of the local committee.
but as she was authorized by the
Board of Health TO land passengers
and freight, no further action could be
taken. No steerage passengers were
brought, however. from Honolulu. and
il is said no Oriental freight Sheriff
Andrews is also taking great care that
no privileges are granted which might
prove If danger, that are not expressly
authorized by the Board.
The Other Bank.
Mr.. Philip Peck returned to Hilo by
Wednesdays Kinau, just as firmly of
the opinion as ever that a bank here
is a good thing for the people and the
bank. and that two banks are even
better than one, provided the other
people think so.
While in San Francisco Mr.. Peck
made arrangements for exchange with
prominent banking institutions. His
capital Is for the most part local, IN
less the local subscribers are inclined
70 back out on account of the branch