The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-12
Uncle Sam Making Great Improve
ments In Quarantine Station
On the Island.
Finest Hospital In the Territory Being Built.
Administration Building.
Barracks.

a dlSlnfectlng apparatus, working in
conjunction, automatically, with the
sewer system.
A steam laundry, twenty-four feet
long by twenty-four feet wide, is to be
built next to where the electric light
plant and fumigating house is This
laundry will be capable of handling the
linen of a thousand people. The ma
chinery for this plant will arrive here
in the near future. The fumigating and
electric light building will remain as it
is, only few minor repairs being made.
The machinery contained therein is as
good as required, everything being in
the best of condition.
The present Asiatic hospital is to be
remodeled and equipped with new
baths and plumbing and all necessary
appliances. Many old buildings on the
island are to be torn down and new
ones erected in their places. Those
which are in a good enough condition
to stand repairing will be remodeled.
Some will be used for officers quar-
ters and some for the houses of nurses
and attendants. While there are at
present about dozen people making up
to force on the island there are likely
to be four more added before long.
The present saloon passengers hospi-
tai, very attractive little cottage
which can accommodate about seven
people, is to be remodeled and equip
ped with the most modern appliances.
The house now used for saloon pas
sengars can accommodate twenty-four
persons. This is long, comfortable
building, provided with a spacious YER
anda and fronted by group of fine
trees which were planted by Superin-
tendent McVeigh several years ago.
The building will be extensively alter
ed and repaired and large new house
will be put up near it. The new house
for the saloon passengers will be about
seventy feet long by twenty-five feet
wide and will be able to take fifty peo-
pie comfortably. The lumber for this
structure is already on the ground and
the work of building commences today.
The crematory is to be moved and
placed about twenty-five feet Waikiki
of it's present location. 1t will also be
enlarged and various improvements viii
be made.
The old smallpox hospital is to be re-
paired and some additions are to be
made. cook house will be added and
quarters will be provided for as4Turse.
One of the finest buildings on the ISL
and and, in fact, the very finest hospi
tai in these Islands, will be the new
general hospital, the work upon which
is already we'll under way. It will be
thirty-two feet wide by seventy-two
feet long. resting upon concrete piers
as will all of the buildings, being dou
BILE floored and provided with every
thing necessary to a modern hospital.
Towards the sea there will be a cou
pie of porches to catch the after
noon sun for the benefit of patients able
to be up and outside. Towards the
mountains will be the baths and the
nurses rooms There will be ward
for women and one for men. These
wards will accommodate a dozen each.
The total hospital accommodations on
the island will provide for about fifty
persons.
On the Eva end of Quarantine Island
four frame buildings standing on con-
crete piers and arranged in a graceful
curve, like a portion of the circumfer-
ence of wheel, are almost completed.
They are now being shfngled and the
plumbing is being installed.
These buildings are known as the
barracks and are for the housing of
soldiers coming through here on trans
ports or otherwise, among whom there
happens to be disease of nature ne
cessitating segregation. Two more of
these houses are to be built, to be To-
Gated so as to carry out the circular
idea, and six more may be erected at
some future time on another, part of the
island.
Each of these houses viii shelter fif-
ty people, hunks being provided for
that number. Each house is equipped
with baths, shower and otherwise, and
all other conveniences, disinfecting
tanks being connected with all closets,
working, as before mentioned, automat-
ically in conjunction with the same
The houses are connected by walk,
and rallied. A cook house will
be built in front of the barracks and
will be connected with each structure
by an elevated walk. This walk is rem
dered necessary by the high tide which
sometimes covers the ground in places
near the barracks. This is an advan-
tage of no small value, having tide un-
der the barracks. No rubbish can ever
accumulate there and the ground can
in no way become infected
The buildings are to be painted red
with creosote stain and trimmed with
black. Red and black are the Federal
quarantine colors.
Everything is progressing rapidly and
we'll on the island. Architect Beardslee
expects. to have all the new buildings
completed by the latter part of Sep
tember
When the steam disinfecting plant ar
rives for the channel or quarantine
wharf and the dock has been dredged
out there. ships viii be able to go
alongside to be disinfected Then pas
sengers can be bathed while the hold
of the vessel Is being disinfected When
all of these improvements have been
Honolulu will have a quar-
antine station of which she may well be
proud.
Something has been said about an OBJ
being placed on the admins
tration building. As the building stands
now 1t Is credit to the waterfront but
with an observatory it would be
source Of even more pleasure to the eye.