The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-30
KAUAI ACTING
Appoints a Sanitary
Commute.
The Garden Islanders Endorse the
Board Of Health and Want
to Cooperate.

Kauai has fallen into line with HO-
nolulu in the matter of adopting and
enforcing the regulations laid down by
the Board of Health. The islanders are
entirely willing to follow the leader
ship of the Board. and signify their
intention to remain loyal TO the Board
during the present emergency. The
only request the Kauaian citizens make
of the Board is that they be allowed
to place all plantation immigrants in
an eleven days quarantine.
A letter from VIM. Fl. Rice chairman
addressed, to President Wood, is as
follows:
LIHUE, KAUAI, Jan. 23.-A meeting
of the citizens of Kauai was he'd here
this day to take action in regard TO
the plague situation and to prevent its
spread to Kauai. There were present
ali the sugar planters on the island,
nearly every licensed physician, Sheriff
COney and all his deputies. in fact near
ly every government official, represen-
tatives from the various industries
other than sugar, all the clergymen
both native and foreign and many
other prominent citizens.
The meeting was called to order by
Mr. J. H. Coney and organized with w.
II. Rice chairman.
Upon motion il was voted to request
your honorable body to appoint citi-
Zels health committee consisting OF
all licensed physicians on the island,
one layman for each district as follows:
Waimea. II. Morrison; KolOa, A.
Cropp: Lihue, G. VOTERS; Kealia, Geo.
/ Fairchild; to act together with your
present agents to effectively carry out
/ the rules and regulations of your
/ honorable body and such additional
rules and regulations as may be deem
/ ed necessary under the circumstances
subject to your approval.
The said health committee there
upon withdrew and after due delibera-
tion brought before the meeting the fol-
lowing rules and regulations:
/. That all immigrants be subjected
to an II days quarantine upon arrival
on Kauai.
9. That there be three quarantine
stations established, one at each of the
following places: Waimea, Lihue and
Kahili.
3. That the details Of SAID quaran-
tine be left to the members of the citi-
zens committee in each district.
4. That no restrictions be placed on
freight in addition to those enforced
by the Honolulu Board of Health.
.. That regular inspection of all
houses, to be made as often as pos
sible shall be provided for by tnis com
mittee.
6. That the resolutions of this com
mittee shall be made public and no
tees shall be printed and posted to the
effect that any householder not re
porting any case of sickness in hi!
house will be prosecuted.
Upon motion it was unanimousl!
agreed to adopt the foregoing repor
and to respectfully request your Honor
able Body to approve the same.
The following resolution was ais
adopted with considerable applause.
Resolved, That it Is the sense of thi
meeting that our unbounded admira
ton and sympathy are due the Board o
, Health and citizens of Honolulu for tn,
zeal and devotion to duty daily ex
hibited in fighting the plague and tina
to every effort deemed necessary t
eradicate the plague Kauai is loyal t
the core.
--Iso, that a copy of these resolution
be handed to the newspapers for publ
cation and to your Honorable Bod,
with an earnest request for your ap
proval.
Yours respectfully,
VIM. II. RICE,
Chairman.
1t was moved and carried that com
. missions as agents of the Board o
Health be issued, as requested, to n
Morrison Of Waimea, A. Cropp. Koloa
G. Wolters. Lihue; Geo. Fairchiid. Kea
liza,