Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-01-17
RULES FOR INSPECTORS


and responsible duty, and the suppress
sion of the plague in Honolulu rests
entirely on the individual efforts of
yourself and your associates.
No epidemic can long survive here If
every new case is discovered in its ini-
tial stage and isolated before 1t be-
comes a new center of infection. 1t is
equally obvious that the carelessness
or negligence of one sub-inspector can
undo the entire work of all the other
sub-inspectors of the city
Our only safety Is in the assurance
that every inhabitant of Honolulu has
been personally inspected twice a day
by responsible person. Your semi
daily report to your inspector is your
guarantee, upon your honor, that your
part of this task has been faithfully
performed.
Almost all the recent plague cases
have occurred, and the patient has been
sick for days, in houses which were
regularly inspected" In each case
the inspector was assured that there
was no sickness in the house and was
satisfied without the evidence of his
own senses.
In a case which occurred during the
cholera epidemic in 1896 the morning
inspection was omitted. A case which
developed early in the morning, and
which would have been found had in
spection 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 adjacent
stream.
In another instance the Inspector
| found the house shut up at his morning
visitation and received no answer upon
knocking. He went away. In the af-
ternoon 1t 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 sani-
tary inspectors are giving their entire
time to this matter and several hun
dred sub-inspectors are giving Il large
proportion, many of them all their
time to it.
The inspection of the city is no more
thorough or effectual than that made
by the most inefficient inspector.
One case of plague a day will as
effectually lock up the city and kill
| business as twenty.
1t is no use for 1899 inspectors to do
careful work IL the 200th man, by ne
glect, is to allow the plague to get a
fresh hold.
1t is unfair to yourselves, unjust to
the Committee and your fellow inspec-
tors and criminally negligent of the
lives and property of the people Of this
| city, for any one of you to agree to in
spect portion Of the city and then
| fail to do 1t, or do II in negligent or
careless manner.
Neither is 1t sufficient for you to
simply go to each house and make gen.
eral inquiry as to health, and cursory
examination Of the premises.
Call the roll of persons living In each
house; see each one of them, or have
them accounted for. If any are absent
follow them up.
Examine every room In every house
upon each visitation. II this Is done
without fail no case can escape you.
DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS.
1 Your first duty Is to take complete
| census Of every man, woman and child
in your Apana.
Instructions For Taking Census.
| Record the name of every man. wo-
man and child in your Apana; and also
the sex, age, nationality and employ
ment of each person.
Enter the name of the householder
in the left hand margin; others living
in the same premises under him, lit
tie to the right.
| Indicate Hawaiians by ii.
| Portuguese by p.
Chinese by G.
Japanese by j.
| Other Foreigners II