The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-03-13
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Wants 90 Install the Pan System
a gentleman rdprgsoaung san
rmu,t.1 firm asked irate 90 address
thp Ho1td on the subject 90 The pan sys-
tenn fof closets aud fhc removal Of
MIGHT roll lie said that be- had had
the contract for this business nj the
Preside in San Francisco while $1,000
soldiers were Camped there The sys-
ten was proven a successful one and
be was In hopes that the Honolulu
Board of Health might see fit TO Try
zoe pan system FOR closets In this city
and elsewhere In the islands where the
sewer system would not extend. No &c
ton was taken i'm the matter.
The Travel Question.
Dr Wood. Il should like very much
TO have an expression of public opin-
ion concerning to what extent we can
go to relieve the merchants during the
present situation. The previous actions
of the Board have been in the right
direction, we have had TO act apparent
ly in an arbitrary manner in many
instances, but subsequent events prov
e. us right Now we have u very diff
ficult proposition before us and IL is
impossible to act without viewing the
subject thoroughly from all stand
points.
Il have been constantly asked the
question by numberless people as to
when the quarantine in Honolulu was
going TO be raised and how long 1t
would be before people could travel on
this island and from one island to the
olher. This question, 1t seems to me,
must now be considered If we are GO
ing to modify the quarantine ,regula-
tons in relation TO travel we have to
determine to what degree this is to be
done. Whether it is safe to allow it
entirely without any previous quaran-
t.nIng; whether to permit 1t only par
TALLY, allowing cabin passengers alone
to travel or whether we will confine
the issuing of travelling permits to
persons whose going is absolutely
necessary.
IF we make IL the rule that only
where necessity exists can persons go
from place to place, we will be con-
fronted with the difficulty of deciding
just what constitutes the necessity.
We know by previous experience that
when an individual is granted the
privilege of travelling on the necessity
in his case, we-are Immediately flooded
by applications from a hundred indig
nant people wanting to know why they
cannot travel too; their business is
every bit as important as the other fell
lows, etc. If | grant permit to a
man to go down the railroad line on ur-
gent business, all the telephones on the
road will be ringing me up wanting to
know why and wherefore. If we alb
solutely refuse to let anybody travel,
all trouble ceases, nobody will apply
for permits after the first few have been
denied. One reason why / think pub
lie expression of opinion through the
newspapers would help us, is that we
would get a better idea of the various
necessities of travelling and would be
better prepared to act in the matter"
Cooper: Each person who express
ed his opinion would be actuated by his
own individual necessity and it would
come back TO the Board of Health to
decide after all. The Board must act
free of any outs de opinion. If the mat
ter of raising the quarantine in Homo
luu were put to vote among the people
of the city have no doubt but what it
would be raised tomorrow. 1t is for
the Board to decide and very great
rests with the Board.
believe in carrying out this campaign
against the plague on scientific basis,
that is the only way we can handle it.
1t is question of safety to the puU.c or
not safety. Our situation has been
unique; we have quarantined Homo
lulu against all the islands. To decide |
when that quarantine is to be raised is !
a question that is most difficult and try
ing"
Dr. Wood: I'VE have had sixty-six
cases of plague, some of these would .
nave undoubtedly come under the head
Of cabin passengers Because a man
S a CABIN passenger does not make him
immune. The general run of cabin
passengers live in clean, sanitary
homes and wear shoes, but even such
IS these are numbered among the
plague cases and nothing prevents any
me from buying a first class passage If
lie has the money. AS long as the
plague exists in Honolulu and people
ire permitted to leave the city for the
,ther islands, so long is there danger
If carrying the plague to the other
Stands. If promiscuous travel is al
owed 1t wont take month for the
plague to be in every town in the Ha-
yaiian group. ! am going back to my
original principles and beliefs and |
I'm convinced that rats are the greatest
means of spreading the disease. We
an make charts of the progress of the
Epidemic among humans, but we can
lot keep track of the rodents; nobody
Knows where they move to-"
Cooper: Would IL not be advisable
o allow those persons to travel who do
ot live within certain radius of in {
ected places?" {
DR.. Wood: IF we were handling
lmber and knew 1t would remain |
here 1t was put, everything would be !
i right, but with human beings we '
ave to have guards to look after G
lem."
Travellers to be Inoculated.