The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-05-04
TO RUN NO RISKS
WITH CHINATOWN
Owners OF Property IN Burnt District
impatient at Delay q
Soil Report.

At ,he meeting Of the Board OF Health
yostUi day report nom All. Ed.Ards
CONTAINING Tuies Ahd regulations oOn-
tvihnB hahI,a..on Aua piunO4ng 10
huuUiulu, MAS feIerted to, Uut as Or.
W Oou aubbeAsed. Tue matter ie.iiy cali
Cd tur a spUCiai muetnB.
Inc Doaiu uv1laed ~ take up the
matter at U 'clock on FRIDAY afternoon.
IL WOOD mad a conference with the
Executive council IN the morning and
tnat BODY hau spoken " him concern
ius the appointment vi a SANITARY In
hpeCtOr, DrinB OF the oplnlOn that IL
was the ONCE OF the Board to appoint
sucn an omcer. The Council also had
much To say on the disposition to be
made OF the detention camps.
The appointment OF a plumbing in
spector viii be taken up with the other
business at Fridays special Board
meeting.
DR.. Wood announced that all camps
were closed except kalihi, and that
great proportion Uf goods Were now In
the drilIshed. He was in favor OF
keeping all those things now az kalihi
camp right there until 1t Is certain that
there is TO be no recrudescence of the
plague. He went on to say that in his
he had requested that the quarantine
wharf be left as 1t is. This would
come in very handy at time when
steamers or other vessels from infect
ed ports had to be dealt with for the
citys safeguarding.
A plan tor new morgue, hospital,
dispensary and laboratory, all in one
building, had been submitted to the
Board of Health by DIR. Howard.
Executive Officer DR.. Garvin was in
structed by the Board to arrange with
Auctoneer Morgan for the sale of the
unused goods from different camps,
now stored in the drillshed.
DR.. HOFFMAN, reported on various
specimens of soil taken from the sup
posedly infected districts and said that
in several of these specimens bacilll
with decided polar staining had been
found, but that the isolation has not
yet been completed. DIR. Wood ex-
p.ained at length the nature of the
work which had to be done before the
final report on the soil from the burnt
districts could be made The special
committee in this matter was WORKING
with all due regard to the anxiety of
the public, Chinatown property-owners
especially, to know what disposition
was to be made of the burnt districts.
1T would be a terrible thing for the
plague to break out here again." SAID
the doctor, and we are going every
thing in our power to guard against
any such possibility. We have got to
look out for the plague for another six
months at least, and it would be very
wrong thing for us to open up the dis
tricts that bred the bubonic disease I'M
til we have every assurance that 1t Is
safe to do 3d."
MI q. Bolte, speaking for the many
persons who had come to him for In
formation in ...e matter, asked the
board many questions in regard to the
opening up of Chinatown or portion
thereof. advancing disinfecting schemes
as possibly advisable for adoption. ,,
81 am not ready to remove the China
town BARRIERS" said DR.. Wood, until
AL danger Is past. want the property
owners ana the merchants and the peo-
pie to understand that we will run no
risks in this matter and that We won't
be beaten at the last in our fight against
the plague. We are doing our best for
everybody concerned. and II those
financially interested in Chinatown
could but appreciate the danger OF act
II e hastily they would cease to COM
plain of the slowness with which the
report on the soil Is being prepared"