The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-08-30
REGULATION
FOR FISH
Advice to Buyers of
Fish---The Mosquito
Campaign.

1 Fish left unsold at p. m. on the
| evening of any day shall be inspected
and if found in proper condition may
go on cold storage; and on again being
offered for sale shall be labeled as
iced fish, -
The passing of the foregoing new
health regulation was the only bust
ness, other than the receiving of re-
ports, done by the Board of Health
yesterday
President L. E. Pinkham, Fred. c.
Smith, DR.. j. T. Wayson. Mark P.
Robinson, DR.. j. R. Judd and Abraham
Fernandez constituted the meeting
In submitting the regulation to the
meeting the president related the case
of the bad salmon in barrels, the
course of which in commerce and the
police court has been described in the
newspapers a jobber, who bought the
carrion from a large grocery house
for bait and pig feed and two of
his customers, to whom he sold it for
human food and by whom it was offer
ed to the public as such, were convict
ed. The Attorney Generals Depart
.nent was satisfied of the good faith
of the wholesale house, which, on its
part, promised to sell no more "dam-
aged' goods.
Mr.. Pinkham made the following OBJ
servations on the treatment of fish by
consumers:
Like all food preserved in cold
storage, fish when taken from the ice
spoil quite rapidly and should be sold
within one to two hours after being re-
moved from storage.
Purchasers of iced fish should see
to it they are promptly delivered to
their homes for immediate consump
ton or at once replaced on ice; as
otherwise these fish viii be liable to
become unfit for food. Carrying any
fish about town for hours in the heat
is injudicious.
Often to satisfy customers in bar
gain iced fish are given with fresh fish
and the two sorts mixed together. This
is imprudent for the customer, as the
iced fish will spoil the sooner and
should this be the case would spoil the
good fish if cooked together.
''Fish will last longer wrapped in ii
leaves than in paper.
'EF'rom the above statement the
public can realize much depends on the
handling of fish after the consumer has
purchased them and that his own de-
lay and earelessness is quite as likely
to be aE fault as that the fish inspec-
tors are negligent.
THE FREE DISPENSARY. -
Fred. R. Nugent, dispenser, sent in
the following report of the Free Dis
pensarv for July:
Number of eases treated, Az; medI- |
cal cases, PSI; surgical, 161.
Number of prescriptions, 1913; eye
cases treated, 33.
NationaIities of cases: Portuguese, ]
1856; Porto Riean, 90; Hawaiian, "a; /
Chinese, IA; British, II; Danish, II;
American, IL; negro, 9; Korean, I;
German, 5; Norwegian, 5; French, 2; |
Spanish, 2; Philippine, 2; Italian, 1.
MOSQUITOES.
'ECertain support has been with
drawn from the mosquito campaign,
the president wrote, $50 we are reduc |
ed for help to the spare time we may
secure from other duties. The money |
for supplies, oil, etc, the president will
endeavor to secure from funds abso- |
lutely in his private control The pub
lie must not expect the impossible IN |
mosquito determination from the Board
of Health. -
Inspector D. S. Bowman reported as
follows of the mosquito campaign IN
HiIo: Cesspools oiled, 432; ponds, etc,
oiled, s; catch basins oiled, 48; mos
quito breeding places oiled, destroyed
or removed, 73; inspections, 9S3.
In the Hilo rat crusade, 623 traps
were set, 60 rats caught, 1856 pieces of
poison placed and 1880 of the doses
taken.
Hilo's general sanitation for July
showed $50 orders given and $50 ear
ried out, 912 sanitary and plumbing
made, and y building in
spections. Two cases of diphtheria
were reported
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