The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1906-10-30
PERFECT NEST
OF CHAMBERS
AT MOILIILI
(From Mondays Advertlser)

A perfect meet Of CHAMBERS, the mos
has been discovered in the environs Of
Honolulu by DIR. Victor A. Norgaard
the Territorial veterinarian, who has
taken the strongest measures for stamp
ing out the infection and preventing
its spread.
1t is in the stables of the Lung DIT
Wal Rice Co. at Moilili, about al
eighth of mile from the church, that
the visitation has been revealed. Tive
horses that had developed the malady
have already been destroyed, one by
DR.. Norgaard IS orders and the other by
the owners without having given the
official veterinarian any notice. Out
of twenty-five animals remaining ter
were shown, by the mallein test, to be
infected. This test is the generally ac
cepted one. 1t indicates infection be
fore the disease has advanced far
enough to yield external signs, such as
the nasal discharge that constitutes
the medium of contagion.
| Chambers is communicable and in
evitably fatal to man, causing, more
over, probably the most horrible death
that could overtake human being
Even hydrophobia is not to be com
pared with it, and besides an antidote
for hydrophobia has been discovered
The fact of its being a menace to the
lives of people brings CHAMBERS under
the cognizancc of public health author
tiles. DR.. Norgaard, therefore, lacking
a proper equipment of the veterinary
service, has received valuable assist
ance from the health department in dis
injecting the Moiliili pesthole.
THE PROTECTIVE MEASURES.
| Yesterday morning DR.. Norgaard and
his assistant, DR.. Fitzgerald, went to
the stables of the rice company above
named and within four hours had a
herculean task performed. They were
assisted by C. Charlock and d. p.
| Lawrence of the Board of Health staff
with the department s disinfecting en-
! CINE.
The ten infected horses were segre-
| gated in paddock and each branded
on both hips with the monogram nv
| CTerritorial Veterinarian. Straw that
had formed the bedding of the horses
was burned in piles. The stalls and
| feed boxes, the watering troughs, every
Nf l,. Al. 4
| roofs-even the entire area of the
stable yard-were drenched with solu-
ton of corrosive sublimate, of one in
500 parts strength
This is the letter Ur. Norgaard
| wrote to the president of the Board
of Health to obtain his cooperation:
Honolulu, October 81, 1906.
The Honorable the President of the
Board of Health Honolulu II. H.
Sir: Pursuant to our conversation Of
yesterday l beg herewith to request
the cooperation of the Board of Health
in the eradication of CHAMBERS among
horse stock in Honolulu.
That this dangerous disease, which is
transmssible to man and always with
fatal result, prevails here to an alarm
more than sixty cases having been de-
stroyed by me during the past year.
In attempting to eradicate this
disease it is of the utmost Importance
that the premises where affected ami
mails are found be thoroughly disin-
fected, after the latter have been re-
moved to quarantine or destroyed, and
it is in regard to this part of the work
that 1 would especially solicit your CO.
operation.
The CHAMBERS bacillus will persist In
water troughs and managers, or on sta
BILE utensils halters or harness for a
considerable time after being discharg-
ed by an affected animal, and unless
a thorough and scientific disinfection
can be effected the danger of repeated
out breaks from the same source will
remain.
AS this office is utterly unprovided
with means for carrying out such
work, / have been compelled hitherto
to rely on private enterprise, more or
less experienced and more or less re-
liable, and l have found in a number
of cases that the work performed has
been Ineffective.
with an outbreak of CHAMBERS among
the horses belonging to the Lung Du
Wal Rice Co. at Moiliili. There are
two stables, with several yards, accom-
modating about "a horses. Two horses
have been destroyed, and of the re-
naming %, ten have given typical re-
action to the mallein test for CHAMBERS.
These, however, will not be destroyed
until they show physical symptoms of
the disease. They will, however. be
branded and placed In strict quaran-
tine, separated from the uninfected
horses on the premises, until the rice
harvest and planting has been finished.
If, therefore, your honorable board
decides to cooperate with this office, as
suggested above. / would ask that the
disinfection OF the premises In question
be undertaken on Sunday. October 2s.
at a. m. when shall be present my
self with my assistant.
The Lung Du Wal Rice Co., through
their agents. Messrs. T. H. Davies &
Co.. win pay all expenses in connection
with the work.
In anticipation of favorable an
swer, l beg to remain, yours respect |
4..NI