The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-02-22

% 1895
proper drainage, and the excreta Is al
lowed to soak into the ground, and
stays there. The stable floors are in
most cases simply the bare earth or
boards that are not water proof mot
tarred). When the floors of the PAN
theon Stables were pulled up il was
found that the eXcreta had soaked into
the earth to the depth of eighteen
inches. These stables were in a filthy
condition and the same conditions
necessarily exist in the Hotel Stables.
There is no drainage; everything
soaks into the earth. AS far as the
structure is concerned, there is very
little in 1t to hold infection. The wood
work is open and the place is not much
more than a roof on posts"
Mr.. Hatch: Then there is very liz
tie evidence that infection lies in the
Hotel Stables?"
DR.. Wood: "All the evidence is con-
tanned in the cases of All Hung and
the japanese who was taken from
there in January"
Mr.. Hatch: The evidence is very
slim. 1t is just as likely that the dis
ease in the case of All Hung was con-
tracted in some place other than the
Hotel Stables. The stables are IN an
unusually clean condition"
Here somebody asked if the evidence
did not tend to show that infection
had come from the ground.
DIR. Wood: In the two last cases
the symptoms go to show that infec-
ton was taken through the stomach
or lungs. This is conclusive evidence
that the bacilli were taken in through
the mouth in food or breathing"
Considerable discussion followed.
DR.. Emerson's Opinion.
DR.. Emerson: "One thing is Very
clear, and that is that the Hotel Sta
bles are not conclusively a seat of in
lection from plague. If the ground
was thoroughly cleaned and all the
foorings taken up, it seems to me that
the place would be all right. 1t is a
different case entirely from that Of the
Pantheon Stables"
DR.. Wood: THE soil in the stables
is certainly most suitable to the re-
ception and retention of bacilli. The
representation of the soil occasioned
by the discharges from the animals
makes it a bad place for bacilli to get
started. The stables in Honolulu
should not be allowed to conduct their
business in the way they have been do
ing. The conditions of the soil in these
places render them dangerous; they
should not be allowed to exist, espe-
cially in the heart of the city. 1t is not
proper or wise or safe to allow these
conditions to continue. If there is any
evidence on which the Board of Health
can act, it should take stringent meas
ures to stamp out the evil. | believe
that we should strain point to do
away with this danger. I'm talking
about all stables now, not only the Ho-
| tel Stables"
DR.. Wood spoke earnestly and
strongly on this point for several min
utes, going into the bad conditions OF
stables in Honolulu and what ought to
| be done to remedy the conditions.
Mr.. Smith thought that the evidence
showed the Hotel Stables were infect
ed.
1t was suggested that the Board
could not act until the place in Kaka-
ako where All Hung had slept, was
| found Perhaps All Hung had con-
| tracted the disease there.
President Wood thought the owners
should be considered a little and that
some decision should be arrived at i'm
mediately and no time wasted. He
said that the Board should use its
own brains and come TO a decision &C
cording to the evidence.
DIR. Days Opinion.
Somebody asked DR.. Day what he
thought about the matter. He said:
Il think the gravest suspicion is at
tached to the premises, and until sus-
picion is cleared, the place should bt
put in quarantine"
More discussion followed until Mr.
Smith made the motion that the Hote
| Stables be at once put into quarantine
and that nothing whatever should bt
allowed to be taken away from the
premises until they were properly dis
infected under the supervision OF thu
Board. This motion was seconded ant
carried.
Opening of Schools.
The question of opening the school:
was brought up and Professor WOOD
was invited to state his case. Dr. Woot
read letter from the Citizens SAM
tary Committee relative to the mat
ter; this letter was published in yes
terday's Advertiser.
Inasmuch as the committees inspect
ors would hereafter make only on
inspection a day, in the afternoon, ant
the opening of the schools would no
interfere with the work of the inspect
ors, the Board decided to raise its pro
hibition concerning the schools ant
leave the matter in the hands OF thu