The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-04-10
.H|LO SENDS
UL-T|MATUM
II Wants No Traffic
With us.
BOARD OF HEALTH REPLY
Combined Sugar Interests Arraign
The Authorities in the Matter
OF "ProphylaCtic" Passes.

A special meeting of the Board of
health was called yesterday afternoon
to consider an important communica-
ton from the Hilo Board of Health and
a resolution from the representatives
of all the sugar interests of this island.
The correspondence between the Hilo
and Honolulu health authorities speaks
for itself The following is the letter
received from the big island:
At a meeting of the agents of the
Board of Health, held yesterday, | was
instructed to write you the following,
concerning the transportation OF
freighl and passengers, between Homo
lulu and this port.
Seeing that Hilo is a clean port, and
desiring to keep 1t so, we the agents or
the Board of Health of Hilo, deem 1t
necessary to notify the Honolulu Board
OF. Health, that as bubonic plague is,
still in Honolulu, and not in any deli
mite part of it, we are in great danger
of having the disease brought to Hilo
by the transportation of passengers and
freight as has been brought during the
last two weeks, and so, to put ourselves
on record we would state that here
after, until the disease is twenty-one
days out of Honolulu, that no passen-
gers will be allowed to land in the Hilo
district, inside of fifteen days quaran-
tine in Honolulu, and that no freight
can be landed in Hilo, except that stat
ed in the freight list arranged for in
January, that is, sugar machinery,
,oin, lime, cement, bags, iron OF all
kinds, not in closed boxes.
"This district is in no straits for
goods, as the people in Honolulu would
make you believe; there are plenty OF
goods in Hilo for all, and will be, as
ships come here regularly from the
coast.
1.-THE town and district of Hilo is with
is, and we wish this to be understood.
{ this movement of ours is not allowed
by the Board of Honolulu, for protec-
ion to ourselves and community, then
We as body will act no longer as the
gents of the Board of Health.
Il have the honor, etc
civilian l.. MOORE,
Secretary and Agent of Board of
Health" .-..
President Wood of the Board of
Iealth replied to the foregoing as be-
DIV:
w. l.. Moore Secretary of the Hilo
sanitary committee
Sir: The regulations adopted by
he Board of Health have been formu-
,ted after careful consideration, and
pply to all ports of Hawaii nei, Hilo
,cluded The agents of the Board ap-
ointed in the different districts Of the
stands were instructed when appoint
that they were to act for the Board
{ Health in carrying out its regula-
ons and accepted the appointments
it'll this understanding. When the
me comes that the agents of the
GARD refuse to carry out instructions
ON this Office, the Board can no
niger recognize such agents as acting
,r the Board"
During the discussion following the
aading of the Hilo letter G. w. Smith
owed that inasmuch as the Board of
ealth had adopted certain regulations
the matter of travel between this
)rt and the other Islands, it was the
ity of the Board to enforce those reg
atoms. F. ]. Lowrey said that the
structions Of the Board of Health
ere supposed to be carried out
DR.. Wood stated that the PROPOSE
On originally came from Hilo to al
nothing on the Island of Hawaii
ON Honolulu without first going to
Ito. ''
Smith suggested notifying the
,ard of Health at Hilo that permits
go to the other Islands from Homo
lu were only issued by the Board of
,alth after careful consideration, and
at the Board of Health could not
ow itself to be dictated to by its
ents.
DR.. Day thought that if the Board
elded in this matter it would prob
ly be soon receiving a commupica-
II from Lihue debating that the
ard allow no passengers for that
ice who had not been in quarantine
sixty days.
Sugar Men Speak.
rhe representatives of the sugar in
ests on this Island, H. Hackfeld &
Castle & Cooke VIM. G. Irwin &
NJ. S. Grinbaum & Co., and ], NJ.
wsett, submitted the following res
,tion to the Board of Health, which
$ read by President Wood at the
citing:
Resolved, 1t is the opinion Of this
nmittee which represents all the
ar interests on the Island Of Oahu,
t in view of the complaints emanat-
from the sanitary committees of
non-infected districts of this ISL
|, more systematic, consistent and
able precautions should be taken by
officials of the Board of Health in
matter of allowing travellers, who
o taken Haffkine's prophylactic
I'M, to take train or cross over the
ious quarantine boundaries into the
IN districts of the Island. Complaint
made more particularly as regards
infected clothing of travellers, and
CHI II is claimed is not properly
ID for after 1t leaves the fumigating
bathing establishment, and further
/. persons having 'prophylactic"
ses are allowed to visit parts Of the
and to ride in vehicles which have
been disinfected before crossing
boundaries.
view of the fact that 1t is now