The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-07-24
DIsINFECTIoN TO BE DONE ON
VESSELS.
Special Floating Apparatus to Facili-
tate Quarantining of Boats Touching
Here Ordered by Government.

Or. d. A. Carmichael, superintendent
of the federal quarantine station and
marine hospital service in the Territory
of Hawaii returned Sunday from an
inspection of the quarantine stations at
Hilo Kahului and Kihei. None of these
stations have any equipment, and 1T will
be some months before they can receive
the necessary apparatus. During ms
absence DR.. Carmichael appointed the
following deputies, all of them being
practicing physicians at the places
where they are to serve. At Hilo, DR..
j. G.. Grace was appointed deputy; at
Kihei, DIR. r.. H Dinejar, and at Ka-
hului, DIR. John Weddick.
The superintendent is expecting q
very valuable addition to the quaran-
tine station at Honolulu, which will be
a cause of much satisfaction among
shipping men who stop at this port 1t
is a portable disinfecting hulk similar
to the old warship Omaha in San Fran
cisco Bay, and win permit the fumiga-
tion of vessels a few hours after their
arrival. The Government appropriated
S75, 900 to maintain the four quarantine
stations in the Territory, and to supply
Honolulu with the floating quarantine
plant. 1t was intended originally to
provide Hilo with one, owing to its
remote situation from this place, but
the funds will not be sufficient, so the
Orders for the contraction of the
plant were placed with Kensington &
Co. of Philadelphia, the cost being $25,-
600 to 500, 900. The plant will consist of
two steam chambers for the fumigation
of clothes, bedding, ETC.; sulphur fur
mace a formaldehyde generator and
two tanks for bichloride spraying fluid.
This plant is on the hulk and part
of it.
In the steam chambers will be placed
merely the ships bedding and clothes
of a general character, for the passen-
gers and their baggage Will be required
to go ashore as before for fumigation at
the quarantine station. The sulphur
tank supplies the material for fumigat-
ing the cargo, ships hold and other
portions of the vessel, while the for
maldehyde tank will supply the gas
with which the living apartments are
sprayed. The advantage of this gas
over the sulphur fumes is that 1t does
not treat the goods and places sprayed
as severely as the latter, sulphur all
ways staining, while the gas does not.
The bichloride is used in washing down
the vessel after the other material has
been used. In fumigating vessel the
hulk will be brought alongside so that
it can be done quickly and anywhere in
the harbor.
'FThe advantage. IN having such a
plant in operation" said DIR. Carmich-
ael, sis that it will facilitate the move
ments of vessels touching at Honolulu.
This is las a rule, merely a calling
point, and in order to allow commerce
to be moved as speedily as possible we
will remove any suspicious case from
the vessel run the hulk to the side of
the vesseE and without moving the
cargo, fumigate the ship in short order.
The vessel will be allowed to proceed
if possible. We will not require the de-
tention of a vessel during the incuba-
tion of any disease, but will state the
circumstances on the ships papers, and
let her proceed to her destination where
the quarantine officials can pass upon
the advisability of quarantining the
vessel or not.
"Dr. Kinyoun, the federal quarantine
officer at San Francisco, is looking
about to secure a hulk for us. When
the Kensington Company will have fin
ished the plant it will be shipped to
San Francisco, and there placed on the
hulk and sent here. 1 expect that this
vessel will be about the same size as the
Kaimiloa. Hilo cannot be provided with
such an apparatus this year, owing to
lack of funds. Vessels requiring to be
Quarantined can be ordered back from
the two other places to Honolulu sta
tion. In addition to the quarantining
plant we are expecting steam launch
very soon. I have no idea when the
hulk will arrive, for it all depends upon
the Philadelphia company"
Assistant Surgeon DR.. Hobby, who is
at present at Southampton, will arrive
here in August to join the quarantine
force at this place. He will probably
act as a boarding officer