The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-03
NO MORE
FUM|GAT|ON
Had Caused Delay
In Dispatch of
Mails.
COMPLAINT FROM
SAN FRANCISCO
Hereafter Mails viii Not Be Dis.
infected Either Here or
Mainland.

| The fumigation of all mails from the
mainland will be discontinued entirely
in the future, the health conditions at
San Francisco and in the States war
ranting this action.
1t was for some time the practice to
! fumigate all mails sent here from the
mainland Immediately upon their ar
rival, because of contagious diseases
prevalent in San Francisco and the in
terror. There was often long delay
| in the distribution and delivery of mail
had been thoroughly disinfected. Com
plants of this delay naturally followed
and finally. while it was thought I'M
wise to discontinue the fumigation al
together, way out of the difficulty sug-
gested itself, in having that work done
at San Francisco before the mails were
put on the steamers. At the suggestion
of the Board of Health DR.. Cofer wrote
to the department at Washington and
secured the necessary order for a fumi-
cation of mails before leaving the main
land, and this has been done for the
past month or more, at San Francisco.
Now the complaint over the delay
comes from the other side of the ocean
BY a recent mail, Postmaster Oat receiv-
ed letter from H. P. Tharall superin-
tendent of the Eighth Postal Division
with headquarters at San Francisco,
saying that tn fumigation of mails at
that point was causing delay in forward
ing the mails to Honolulu and that they
were likely to miss the steamers alto
gether with part of the mail. 1t was sup
posed at this end of the line that the
mails could be -fumigated at San Fran
cisco as fast as they arrived, days be-
fore the steamer sailed, and that til last
mail from the Coast would arrive IN
plenty of time to allow of thorough dis
infection before sailing time.
1t seems from the letter written to
Postmaster Dat that often times it is
hard work to make connections between
the fast trains and the steamships, which
are often held for short time to eaten
the English mail. In such cases there is
no time left for the postal authorities |
TO take the necessary precautions, as re- |
quested by the Board of Health here, |
and 1t is case of either missing the |
boat or dispensing with the fumigating |
process. In the case of the transport /
Warren, Superintendent Tharall writes |
that he was unable to make the steamer
with part of the mail, and he forwarded
4 request to Postmaster Dat to have the
order rescinded, at least at the San
francisco end of the line
In compliance with his instruction.
postmaster Dat sent a copy of the letter
10 President Sloggett of the Board of
Health, with a request for such action
as he saw fit, and the latter then went
to DR.. Cofer asking him to again write
70 Washington to have the former order
-escinded, as the Board believed it to be
no longer necessary in view of the i'm
proved health conditions at San Fran
cisco, and other places in the States
DIR. Golfer addressed a letter
20 the department at Washington, and
the order for fumigating the mails at
san Francisco has probably by this time
been reScinded. The action of President
Sloggett in this matter was approved by
he Board, and hereafter the mails will
escape fumigation both in San Francisco
Ind Honolulu.
This will make impossible any further
1elay on that account, and the mails
Will in the future probably be dispatch
ID with less delay than ever.