The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-17


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every new case is discovered in its mi
ial stage and isolated before it becomes
4 new center Of Infection. Ii is equally
-bEiCus that the carelessness or negli-
gence OF one sub-inspectOr can undo
he entire work of all the other sub
inspectors Of the city.
Our only safety is in the assurance
that every inhabitant Of Honolulu has
Jeen personally inspected twice a day
y a responsible person. Your semi
Iaily report to your inspector is your
guarantee, upon your honor, that your
part Of this task has been faithfully
lefCImed.
Almost all the recent plague cases
nave occurred. and the patient has been
sick for days, in houses which were
egularly inspected" In each case the
Inspector was assured that there was
80 sickness in the house and was salts
fed without the evidence of his own
senses.
In a case which occurred during the
cholera epidemic in 1895 the morning
inspection was omitted. A case which
developed early in the morning, and
which would have been found had in
ipection then been made. was not found
until late in the afternoon, when the
patient was nearly dead, and soiled
clothes had been washed in an ada
cent stream.
In another instance the inspector
found a house shut up at his morning
visitation and received no answer upon
knocking. He went away. In the aft
ernOon it was found that there was a
cholera patient in the house when the
inspector called in the morning, which
would have been discovered had the
Inspector insisted upon an entrance in
| the morning.
| The committee and the forty sanitary
\ inspectors are giving their entire time
\ to this matter, and several hundred
! sub-inspectoTs are giving n large pOr-
! ton. many of them all their time To il
/ The inspection OF the city Is no more
thorough or effectual than that made
by the most inefficient inspector.
i One case of plague a day will &c ef
fectually lock up the city and kill bust
ness as twenty.
II is of no use for 1879 inspectors to dC
careful work if the 200th man, by neg
lect. is to allow the plague to get ;
fresh hold.
IL is unfair to yourselves, unjust q
the committee and your fellow-inspect
ors and criminally negligent of tn
!, lives and property Of the people OF thi
city. for any one of you to agree to in
spect a portion of the city and then fai
to do il, or do it in a negligent or care
less manner.
Neither is it sufficient for you 4
simply go to each house and make gen
eral inquiry as to health, and cursor.
examination of the premises.
Call the roll of persons living in eacl
: house; see each one of them, or hay
them accounted for. If any are absen
] follow them up.
Examine every room in every hOus
upon each visitation. If this is don
l without fail no case can escape you.
Detailed Instructions: Your frs
T duty is to take a complete census @
e every man. woman acd child in you
a apana.
= Instructions for Taking Census: Re
cord the name of every man, woma
I and child in your apana.
J. And also the sex, age, rationale
y and employment of each person.
Enter the name of the househOlde
in the left-hand margin: others Twin
; in the same premises under him. III
u tie to the right.
e Indicate Hawaiians by II.
: Indicate Portuguese by p.
Indicate Chinese by c.
u Indicate Japanese by J.
y Indicate other foreigners by F.
Samples of Census Entry: