The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-04-10
H|LO GUARANTEES AGAIN
NO FREIGHT OR PASSENGERS
FROM HONOLULU.
This Time the New Sanitary Acts ard
Members Threaten to Resign if Re
quest Not Granted.

Hilo is at it again. This time the
new sanitary committee, appointed
after the death of Mrs. SerraO of
plague, informs the Board of Health
that the people of Hilo do not want any
merchandise from Honolulu, 81. e such
as was permitted in the schedule of last
January and want no passengers eX-
| Cept such as have undergone quaran-
tine of fifteen days.
The matter was discussed at the
meeting of the Board of Health yester-
day afternoon. The unanimous opinion
of the members was that the Board
was acting with due caution and its
regulations must be carried out. 1t
was not to be dictated to by its agents.
Following is the letter from Hilo which
stirred up the Board:
"At a meeting of the agents of the
Board of Health, held yesterday, 1 was
instructed to write you the following,
concerning the transportation of
freight and passengers, between Homo
lulu and this port
Seeing that Hilo is a clean port, and
desiring to keep it so, we the agents of
| the Board of Health of Hilo, deem II
necessary to notify the Honolulu Board
of Health, that as bubonic plague is
still in Honolulu, and not in any def
mite part of it, we are in great danger
of having the disease brought to Hilo
| by the transportation of passengers and
freight as has been brought during the
! last two weeks, and so, to put ourselves
on record, we would state that hero
after, until the disease is twenty-one
DAYS out of Honolulu, that no passen-
gers VIII he allowed to land in the Hilo
district, inside of fifteen days quaran-
tine in Honolulu, and that no freight
can be landed in Hilo, except that stat
ed in the freight list arranged for in
January, that is, sugar machinery, coin,
| lime, cement, bags, iron of all kinds,
not in closed boxes.
This district is in no straits for
goods, as the people in Honolulu would
make you believe; there are plenty of
goods i'm HilO for all, and will be, as
ships come here regularly from the
Coast.
1.-THE town and district of Iilo Is with
u.s. and we wish this to be understood,
if this movement of ours is not allowed
by the Board of Honolulu, for protec-
ton of ourselves and community then
We as a body will act no longer as the
agents of the Board of Health.
81 have the honor etc.
civilian L. MOORE,
Secretary and Agent of Board of
Health"
Following is the letter drafted by DR..
Wood in reply which was approved by
the Board Yesterday
"W. L. Moore, Secretary of the Hilo
Sanitary Committee.
"Sir: The regulations adopted by the
BOARD of Health have been formulated
after careful consideration. and amply
to all portS of Hawaii nei, Hilo includ-
ed. The agents of the Board appoint
ed in the different districts of the ISL
ands were instructed when appointed
that they We're to act for the Board OF
Health in carrying out it's regulations
and accepted the appointments with
this understanding. When the time
comes that the agents of the Board re-
fuse to carry out instructions from this
office, the Board can no longer recog-
nize such agents as acting for the
| Board"