The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-11-22
No FUNDS
FOR HEALTH
Pres. Pinkham Appeals
to Merchants for
Assistance.

Iperiod of four months. And, if its
Especial work of cleansing and disin-
lection is to be carried on up to the
present efficiency, $500 a month addi-
tional will be needed-a total of either
$4,000 or $4,000.
AS the funds of the Board are ex-
Ihausted, President Pinkham has laid
the situation before the Shippers
organized to protect the public health,
the members voluntarily paying ton
mage tax, so that trade and commerce
might not suffer from threatened cpl
denies. From the presidents letter to
J. A Gilman, secretary of the Ship
pers' Wharf Committee, submitted to
the Board of Health yesterday the
following information is extracted:
| Distinction and combating plague
has cost $71S9.32. The appropriation
was only $4,000. To make up the def
cheney the following assignments were
transferred: Dispensary, $780, 46;
quarantine, $1174; vaccine, $371.47;
medicines, s804.4O, with a balance Of
s5101 estimated to be on hand Deem
Der 1.
OF the amount expended, $1145.84
went for permanent apparatus, $1944.-
q for disinfectants and fuel, $2655.4
for wages of guards and disinfectors,
and the balance for sundry disinfec-
ton outside of Oahu and sundry ex-
penses.
To the Board and the Committee Mr..
Pinkham makes the following state
ments:
1.-THE quarterly report recently re-
ceived from the health authorities of
the Philippine islands discloses an ex-
perience this year with plague almost
Identical with our own and occurring
at about the same date
infected rats We're discovered before
this disease attacked any human be-
ing.
Action by the authorities was i'm
mediate and consisted in an extensive
rat campaign and complete disinfec-
ton of entire blocks of buildings. No
expense was spared. Identical meth
DDS have been and are being pursued
here, though the question of expense
has been a most embarrassing one.
During the period from July 1, 1906
to date there have been &c cases of
plague, Is of which occurred subse-
quent to April IA. 1906. Since that date
the Board has purposely refrained
from requesting aid from your COM
mittee, except the amount of SIS only.
The regular rat campaign supported
by you 1 am not taking into consider
alton.
1.-THE measures for disinfection and
cleanliness deemed imperatively neces-
sary to stamp out epidemic disease and
prevent recurrence and those enforced
have been more stringent and thorough
than those employed by the federal
government in Cuba. We have not
trusted the populace, but our inspec-
tors have supervised and assisted in
each instance, and the Board has
furnished the utensils and disinfectants
necessary
The work to November IA comprises
the disinfecting and thorough cleans
ing of 2050 buildings and outhouses,
1871 rooms, SIT stores and so vaults.
+L,o
ensuing, the requirements of which are
stated above. Mr.. Pinkham says it
will give the Legislature an oppor-
tunity to determine whether public
health shall or shall not be adequately
provided for, and to appropriate for
the deficiency existing between De-
cember 1, 1906, and June 80. 1907
''It would be useless for the Board
to attempt to give your committee any
assurances as to the return to them
of any moneys advanced to the Board
Of Health should you elect to furnish
the necessary funds.
The Board of Health since the 18th
of April, 1906, has had to consider
whether it can be compelled to protect
the public health during the existence
of virulent contagious disease, threat
ening to become epidemic, when the
Territorial Legislature deliberately and
knowingly failed to provide adequate
appropriations to meet such exigen-
cies.
Without private assistance quaran-
tine, fumigation, disinfection, dispen-
sary, medical and vaccination work and
medicines for the INDECENT will cease
December 1, 1906"
Beyond receiving reports and inform
ally discussing various institutions, the
Board Of Health transacted no business
at this meeting. With President l. z.
Pinkham there were present Fred. c.