The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-09-03

city and hereafter every vessel leaving
San Francisco for Hawaii ports will
be required to be fumigated before de-
parture and receive the certificate of
that the ship and crew have undergone
quarantine.
port for months the California health
authorities have required that vessels
leaving here for San Francisco be
fumigated and otherwise handled here
prior to departure, the Honolulu quar-
antine service certifying to such hand
ling. Now Honolulu quarantines against
San Francisco and the ports are quar-
antined against each other.
DR.. Carl Ramus, assistant surgeon,
United States Marine Hospital service,
for this port, in charge in the absence
of DIR. Cofer, yesterday received from
Washington cabled instructions to at
once apply the quarantine to all YES
sells from San Francisco on account of
an epidemic of bubonic plague there.
San Francisco has been doing every
thing possible to keep quiet the fact
of plague existing there and has been
most demanding in requiring that YES
sells undergo quarantine and be fumi-
gated here before leaving for that city
or be held up there for several days
under the yellow flag, San Francisco
seeming to fear that plague might be
introduced there from this port, whereas
there are good reasons to believe, now,
that the few cases of plague which
have occurred on this island in past
months may have been brought here
from San Francisco.
DR.. Ramus stated yesterday evening
that the cabled instructions from
Washington were to be put into force
Immediately and upon the arrival of
vessel from San Francisco she will be
treated just as are treated vessels ar
irving here from the Orient, being sub
jected to rigid examination of pas
sengers and crew outside the harbor
and, unless she brings the certificate
of the San Francisco marine hospital
service to the effect that she has un-
dergone precautionary treatment before
leaving that port, she will be put into
quarantine here and not allowed to
come to her wharf.
Plague conditions are serious in San
Francisco. John Kelly, the Sierra s
cOalpasser who has the disease, came
from E street, near the Ferry building,
San Francisco, in the district from
which were taken numerous cases of
plague.
The Pacific Mail S. ). Asia, due here
this afternoon from San Francisco, and
the Matson Navigation s. S. Hilonian,
due herefThursday from San Francisco,
having left San Francisco before the
new orders from Washington could go
into effect and therefore not having
undergone quarantine and fumigation
at San Francisco for clean bill of
health to enter here, will be ordered
into quarantine Immediately upon ar
rival at this port.
The Asia will suffer little or no in
convenience through this order, for she
is foreign bottom, although operated
by the Pacific Mail, and brings no pas
sengers for Honolulu except perhaps
two or three stop-overs and she has no
freight for this port. She will want
coal and water and ordinarily puts dir
ty linen ashore for washing. She can
take her coal and water in quarantine |
without much trouble. She may have |
to wash her soiled linen aboard. With |
the Hilonian the new quarantine |
against San Francisco will be another |
matter for she brings numerous pas
sengers and considerable freight from
San Francisco for Honolulu. Not hav-
ing been fumigated on the Coast she
will have to be fumigated here and
her freight, too, may undergo fumiga-
tion, her steerage passengers, if anv.
taking the seven-day quarantine on the
island, her cabin passengers being al
lowed to land after careful examina-
tion, as was the case with the Sierra
when she arrived with a case of plague
aboard last Friday.
The orders from Washington. sent to
San Francisco and to this port. order |
ing boats leaving the Golden Gate to
leave clean for Hawaii and ordering
Honolulu to see that they get here
clean, in order to protect Honolulu
from the San Francisco plague. double |
the burden on all vessels plying be-
tween the two ports, unless Sa. Fran |
ciseo's quarantine against Honolulu
should be raised, which should be the
case about the end OF this month ;fl
local health conditions continue as tbevt
are.
1t has frequently been the remark