The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-02-27


tine officer and now he desires that
some arrangements be made as to fees.
Wilder & Co. have made the same !
proposition, and perhaps it would be I
advisable for the Board to establish a /
lee for the inspection of vessels and |
the supervision of quarantine" /
Cooper Going to Kauai.
Mr.. Cooper: Il should like to obtain, |
if possible, the permission of the Board |
to go to Kauai; want to get away on
the next steamer, if can arrange it;
if not, will go next week providing
the Board will grant me it's permission.
1t is very necessary that l should make
this trip. Matters connected with my
department as Attorney General urg-
emily demand my presence on Kauai.
| have several important matters to at
| tend to; | don't think it is necessary to
say Just what they are. If I can be OF
any service to the Board of Health
while there 1 will most gladly discharge
any duty it sees fit to commission me
with"
| DIR. Wood: Must you go to Kauai
| on court matters, Mr.. Cooper"
| Mr.. Cooper: 1.-The March term OF the
| Circuit Court on Kauai is coming on
and it is necessary that l be there.
| That is one of the matters which makes
it necessary for me to go to Kauai.
DIR. Wood: II think it would be well
for somebody to go to Kauai who rep
resents the Board"
Mr.. Hatch: eff Mr.. Cooper were sent
to Kauai by the Board of Health on the
Boards business l should think the
matter could be better so arranged.
Mr.. Cooper: Il would assist the
Board in any way it saw fit; but l
] would not have it understood that tnat
was necessarily the business that took
me to Kauai. l have to go on account
of matters which require my attention
: in nv department. / don't want to sail
| under false colors.
DR.. Wood: We've got to look OUT
, for the future, present conditions
should not only be considered"
Mr.. Smith: THE plague may now De
( endemic in Honolulu, but 1 think 1t has
. ceased to be epidemic. That is clearly
shown by the recent history of the dis
T ease here Five, seven and twelve days
1 even have passed without any cases ap
l pearing."
i Mr.. Smith: l move that the Attor'
! ney-Genera1 be allowed to proceed tt
Kauai
Mr.. Lowrey: "The matter as under
stand it hinges entirely upon the neces
sity of the case"
Mr.. Smith amended his motion Il
read: 81 move that, if in the opinion
: of the President of the Board of Health
q it is necessary, that Attorney-Genera
Cooper be allowed to proceed to Ka
u uai'' Carried.
To Sprinkle Streets.
s Mr.. Smith: 81 would like to ask, j
o in consideration of the change in tn
II type OF the plague to the pneumoni
form, it would not be well to sprinkl
n the streets of the city at night with
It solution of sulphuric acid"
} DIR. Wood: by day light would b
If better / should imagine. 1t is goo
If idea l think The government sprinB
lers could be used and We could doubt
ID less hire others"
Mr.. Lowrey: 1.-THE night time woul
ID be better, for then the sidewalks coul
er be sprinkled with the solution as well.
h DIR. Wood: Will you undertake tina
matter Mr., Smith, as you did once bs
he fore?"
a. Mr.. Smith: 81 will Shall we tax
q, any action on Wilder's letter."
q |
of each vessel inspected and quarantine
is the proper thing. 1t is the steamshi
q /, companies own idea. The Boar
no should have a quarantine officer. tt
question is whether the Board shou
m pay hira or whether he be allowed
rd charge fees.
II A communication in relation to Il
Az importation into this country of goot
no from Asiatic ports was then read.
no was decided to refer the matter to Il
Minister of Foreign Affairs, calling h
10 attention to the action that the Boal
~ had already taken in the matter.
We An application from Schaefer & c
49,, to ship -four to one of their plantation
80 was considered. If flour could be secu
- ed from clean ships in the harbor Il
%, Board would be willing to grant Il
- necessary permission.
Mr.. Smith reported the progress
-, the committee appointed to investiga
p, the matter of a disinfecting apparat
eei for vessels. He had seen DR.. earn
90 chael and had learned that there was
'n0 provision in the Cullom bill for t
-, quarantine department of Honolulu
"a be in charge of the United States Ma
'an inc Hospital Service. In that event
.on necessary appliances would be furnis
recommended that no steps be taken
aue the Board in the matter
ing An application was presented by \
use G. d. Gear for Fred Harrison, for p
hnu mission to erect fire-proof buildi
W on Nuuanu street on the mauka side
ron the Mclean building, in block 10.
s sh- was the general opinion of the me
the bers that the Board was not prepal
an an to consider the proposition OF Gulldl
'eIs on grounds where plague had exls
IRE and which were infected thereby.
art Considerable discussion was oc
'rKs stoned by this application to build
ing Nuuanu street and the matter
lere thoroughly gone into. 1t was
Ii Woods opinion that air, sunlight
out, time were the surest disinfectants
rees the soil. Flowing up the land and so
ing it with oil and burning it wo
est- help; but should not be depended up
as 1t would not be safe to build for m;
uit- months in the infected district.
for