The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-30

| specially prevalent, the Board of Health
| has caused to be inserted in each paper
a notice requesting information be sent.
If the citizens Will kindly comply
| with our request they will increase
greatly the efficiency and amount or
work your agents can accomplish.
The success of this campaign will
| serve as an example of what combined
action can produce at little cost in the
way of city Improvement.
While any reference to the wonderful
| climate of the Hawaiian Islands is trite
| and rather tiresome, it Is nevertheless,
a most potent fact. and when we leave
this home for a time, the realization
/ comes back. and the longing for the
charm of the beautiful outdoor life
nowhere else equa1led or possible.
The one marring circumstance that
detracts from the ideal of comfort and
restfulness. your Citizens Mosquito
Campaign has undertaken to PRACTICAL
ly remove.
1t is worth the money ii has cost,
and which it may cost
1t is sincerely hoped the year on
which we have entered will find your
support as equal to the past year.
We are busy, based on our own in
formation, but we will get busy up to
the limit if you will point out the spots
needing attention
DIR. COOPER'S ADDRESS.
DR.. Cooper made an excellent address
on the mosquito question, speaking to
the subject, 1.-The Board of Healtfl's
Attitude in the Organization of the
Citizens Mosquito Campaign in Homo
LULU"
The mosquito problem in this Terri
tory has been a much mooted question
for many years. There have been dis
cussions on this subject by the various
Boards of Health, and papers have been
read and discussed hy the Territorial
Medical Society, resulting always in
good resolutions, but there the matter
ended. About a year ago interest was
revived and the subject actively agi-
tated by a number of the progressive
business and scientific men in our COM
munity, resulting in the organizat ton of
the Citizens Mosquito Committee. AS
the presiding officer of the Territorial
Board of Health I was approached by
the committee, with a view of a per-
manent organization being formed to be
operated to q certain extent under the
auspices OF the Board or Health. A
meeting was called on August 18th, 1903.
for the discussion of permanent organ
ization and those present We're: DR.. l..
E. Cofer, Chief Quarantine officer Pub
lie Health and u. S. NJ. H Service; w.
z. Rowell, Acting Assistant Supeiin-
tendent Of Public Works; c. II. Tracy,
City Sanitary officer; Saml Johnson,
superintendent Garbage Department;
.. L Van Dine, U. S. Experimental
Station; F. w. Macfarlane, Chamber of
Commerce, and Afessrs. p. NJ. Pond and
P. r. Helm, Research Club; DR.. G. b.
Cooper President Board of Health.
The president of the Board of Health
was elected chairman pro tenn 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 were petrolized and COW
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