The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-08-02
4 GREAT Showing FOR
ANT|-MOSQU|T0 CRUSADE
Another Years Work Would Make the Singing
Snsect RARA AVIS...lnteresting Addresses
at Young Hotel Public Meeting.


city Sanitary officer: Saml johnson,
Superintendent Garbage Department;
d. l. Van Dine, L. :. Experimental
Station: F. w. Macfarlane, Chamber of
Commerce, and Messrs. =. NJ. Pond and
=. X. Helm, Research Club; DR.. c. y.
Cooper, President Board of Health.
The president of the Board of Health
was elected chairman pro TEN and the
object of the meeting stated. which was
TO formulate plans for the campaign,
to devise ways and means of raising
funds and TO see what was necessary to
be done in general to make a successful
issue. Work had already been started
! in a general way by the sanitary in
spectors of the Board of Health; they
had been instructed to see that every
householder kept their yards clear of tin
cans, cesspools We're petroliZed and COW
cred, small ponds and pools filled and
when they could not be filed in to see
that they We're treated with kerosene.
The president of the Board of Health,
acting in behalf of the Board, proffered
every assistance in the power of that
body, which has religiously been carried
out to the present time. thus rendering
the campaign assistance which 1t would
not otherwise been financially able to
obtain.
! The Superintendent of Public Works,
through the Superintendent of the Gar
/ bage Department, offered assistance of
that department and valuable work has
/ been done. 1t was agreed, as no funds
were available. that public subscription
be asked for. and l am glad to say that
hn
the committee to proceed with the
work, the results during the past year
justifying the expenditure and realizing
to great extent our expectations in
abating the nuisance.
To further the efficiency of the work
an agent of the committee was appoint
ed to take general charge of the move
ment and carry out detail work. The
following committees were proposed
ana adopted: General, executive, fl
nance and advisory. The President of
the Board of Health was made perma-
nent chairman of the committee with
executive power to act. Under this
power the appointment of Mr.. a. u.
, Larnach, as agent of the Citizens
| Mosquito Committee, was made and his
work during the past year has proven
| the choice a wise one. An official cir
cular was at once gotten out, stating
objects and instructions for carrying out
the work, and published in several Ian
guages, and while in Washington
be.rd ramar,s of q comp,imantarv ro-
fire for the energy and mode of push-
inc our ,rerritoyiaI crusade.
I In carrying out this great work the
Board of Health have lent every moral
and financial aid in its power-the use
of its offices office force sanitary in
sn.ctors horses and wagons etc. The
C;arbap Department has done and is
sim doing excelIent work. one of the
chief functions of a denartment of
beoItb In t,,ie connection is educational
paonIa ,,,ust no taught tho donper as
tba,, alra,d,, know tho opnoyonca from
mosoritoas rbav must he taupht how
,,osn,,i,oas ,ra 70 no erodicated from
any givan section of the country and he
eniigbt.,ed IN rho noint whore thev vii,
p,adIv co-onerote i'm the work of any
| central organi2ation which is endeovor-
inc To abata tho nuisance and diseas 60
oo,sad NV ,,oscui,oas Sbou,d tbe
po,rd of ueoltb andevor IN usa its now
or, I'm rorcir. o,vners of largo tracts Of
low, I,,iro nronertv IN an and drain
those tracts asnaciouv AZ they are nm
productive would nsrbons he an abuse
NJ tho function of Government ON The
! other hand Inv educating owners IN 70
tba noint where they can see the ad-
VANTAGE of This drainage work rs we
know n n,,bIic and nrivate interests
win ha combined for the imnrovement
NJ oil na,.ts of This civ
Tho baginring we have made here
would not have haen nossihIe without
the nuhric intarast and co-orerntion
shou',, ,1,,,,,,,,, M, nos, vear The move
r,ent has nnssaa havond the humorous
stasa thro,,gh which all radical meas
ures seem 70 have n mass. To he sure
the ..skentics" have heen very much IN
evidence but believe that even the
most skentical would If he answered
honestly, he obliged to admit, much
good has been accomplished in dimin-
ishing the numbers of this pest. The
heavy and continuous rains for several
weeks in the winter months, simply
showed the necessity of getting rid of
| the places where water has the chance
to accumulate and become stagnant.