The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-03-09
Board of Health Meeting.

PRESIDENT WOOD, Ut. Emerson anu
Messrs. Smith, Lowrey. Cooper and
Hatch were present at the regular
Board of Health meeting yesterday aft
ernoon.
The first matter of business was the
motion to refer two additional items
to the estimate on appropriations re-
quired, to the Minister of the Interior.
The motion was carried.
The further desired appropriations
are: $4,000 for the support and
maintenance of lepers and $40, 900 for
the store at the leper settlement. For
the last period, while the appropriation
for the store was $4,000, that estab-
lishment realized $26,5O0 in cash, so
that the actual expense reached only
$500.
DIR. Wood: "Mr. Wilcox reports
that the Auditor General would not
audit the estimate for removal of gar
bage, ETC., as it exceeded the usual
amount allowed for that purpose. OF
course, the expenses in this line have
been much greater than usual, recent
lv, on account of the plague condi-
tions"
The matter was discussed at some
length, the Board finally resolving to
pay all expenses over and above the
regular allowance out of the specia
plague appropriations.
Bills were before the Board from the
Pacific Cycle & Manufacturing Co. anC
the Honolulu Iron Works for repairs
on the fire engine damaged during the
fire in Chinatown. Fire Commission
er Brown stated that this expense wa
above the Fire Departments pro ratt
allowance.
Cooper: These expenses would no
have been incurred If the Board o
Health had not called on the Fire De
partment for help in fighting tn,
plague"
Brown: THE Fire Department dit
} good months work on the day of tn
big Chinatown fire."
The Board then decided to pay 70
the repairs of the damaged fire engine
= Horses Will Cross the Pail.
DR.. Wood: Il have here petition
from a liveryman. He wants to be al
lowed to send horses over the Pail 70
pasturage, and incidentally asks per
mission to be allowed to ship liv
stock to the other Islands. He is par
ticularly DESTROYS of sending mules L
other Islands, and states in his lette
that he will do anything required b,
the Board in the way of quarantine
and disinfection, etc"
Smith: lis It really necessary I
disinfect horses? On their trip owe
the Pail they would get all the air an
light and sun necessary. Those ar
considered excellent disinfectants,
believe"
DIR. Wood: There is no reason tina
horses should not become infecte
from the ground in the stables wheI
they roll. The trip over the Pail /
not long enough to allow sun and al
to have any certain effect. The horses
to avoid any possible danger OF carry
ing infection, should De carefull
@ washed in a strong disinfectant. In tn
matter of requiring a quarantine 70
: horses, would say that there is Ger
tain evidence that horses can carry tn
plague; they can have it in such mil
form that 1t would be hardly noticea5l
and could take infection with then
over the Pail. The animals could b
removed to some clean district outsid
of the city and kept there in quaran
tine for a certain number of days be
fore being sent over"
Smith: II move that the request o
those who wish to transfer horse
from this city to the other side Of tn
Island for pasturage be granted, afte
disinfection of the animals, which ar,
TO be kept in a separate pasture a
their destination under the supervi