The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-12-19
GOV. CARTER'S FULL REVIEW
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nolulu vas o1enel ou July O. 1906
Heretofore the executive offices ~ the
immigration service Wcrc located IN
practically one room of tbe appraiser =
building. the quarters Tor detained Inn
migrants and The station Tor cxnmina-
tion and other work IN connection with
new arrivals on Channel wharf These
accommodation FOR the work were en-
tirely Inadequate. The new quarters
provide everything necessary to the
service under one roof. and the ar
rangement and equipment are perfect
ly adapted for the purposes sought to
be accomplished.
The more important Hawaii becomes
as a military mobilization point. naval
strategic base, and commercial port OF
call the more important will It become
In the eyes OF the medical world az
Z possible disease center Therefore to
the Public Health and Marine Hospital
Service falls the task of protecting not
only Hawaii but the mainland and in
sular possessions as well from infec-
ton possible under present and future
conditions. To the excellent work Of
that Service is very largely due the
freedom of Hawaii from dangerous
diseases that are always more or less
prevalent throughout Asiatic coun-
tries; and this work. especially at Ho-
nolulu. should be appreciated on the
mainland of the United States, owing
to the thorough examination made on
every steamer that touches here be-
fore its arrival at the coast ports.
| Cultures of doubtful cases are develop
ed from material taken after the
steamer has left Honolulu. By the
time it reaches Puget Sound Portland
or San Francisco, a cablegram can be
sent announcing the result of the bac-
THEOLOGICAL test. Thus the inconveni-
ence to shipping and passengers is re-
duced TO minimum The people of
Hawaii, taken as whole. are familiar
with the quarantine and are not un-
appreciative of it's advantages. In
/ deed, 1t would be difficult to find a
community more ready to lend intelli-
/ gent and substantial aid to the work
of preserving their sanitary integrity.
In anticipation of the growing need
therefor, Honolulu will be equipped
with a very large and complete quar-
antine station before another year has
| passed.
| During the past four years 1926 YES
sells, carrying 9S, ,564 persons, have been
| inspected, 27 persons have been sent
to the quarantine station on account
of quarantinable disease, 1880 have
been held as suspects, and 3,43S pieces
of baggage have been disinfected.
y notable event in the affairs of the
Territory was the visit of Surgeon Gem
eral Walter Wyman, chief of the Unit
ed States Public Health and Marine
Hospital Service, who came for the
! purpose of selecting site for the erec-
tion of a hospital station and labora-
tory where the methods of the trans
mission of leprosy, its causes and treat
ment, could be scientifically studied
In company with Hon. w. p. Hepburn,
Member of Congress from Iowa, DR..
l.. e. Cofer of the Federal quarantine
service, and certain Territorial officials,
Surgeon General wyman visited the
leper settlement at Molokai and select
ed site covering about mile square
of land-one-s of the whole reserv-
alton. The natural slope of high land
at the eastern extremity of the settle
ment adapted itself in every way to
hospital service.
Beyond this was protected site suit
able for landing. Situated in a ravine
between the two was an unfailng
spring of pure water, sufficiently ee-
waited, it is believed, to furnish water
to the buildings by gravity. The site
/ has been surveyed by the Territory
and was turned over by proclamation
I to the Federal Government on June
2S last
| The Honolulu Office acts as the de-
pository for all the other offices. in
Guiding Pago-Pago, Samoa, for the de-
posit of money order and postal funds,
which In turn 1t transmits through it's
designated depository to the subtreas-
ury at San Francisco and at Chicago.
The money-order division of the Ho-
nolulu postotfice also acts as the eX-
change office for international money
orders issued in Hawaii and payable
in China, Japan and Australian colo
nies, and makes regular reports there
of to the Postoffice Department.
On June 30, 1905. there were in the
Territory SO money-order offices, of
which "a were international, where
money orders can be purchased paya-
BILE in any part of the world. The
money order business at the Honou-
lu postoffice for the last fiscal year ag-
gregated $2.679.s7s,s7
The transportation of all mails in the
Territory is in charge of an assistant
superintendent of the Railway Mail
Service, located at Honolulu. who su-
pervises the details connected with this
branch of the service. AS was the case
In preceding years, so last year the
local steamboat routes covered all
navigable waters in and around the
different islands. Every landing in the
islands is touched by some mail steam
er, and all steamers plying between
Hawaiian ports carry mail.
The star route and mail messenger
service on the islands is so arranged
as to connect with mail steamers at
any time, whether on a regular sched-
ule or at irregular intervals. At the
first port at which a steamer lands on
any island telephone communication
is had with all postoffices on that is