The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-04-03
QUARANTINE
IS INSPECTED
DIR. CoFER CONDUCTS A PARTY
OF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
ALL OVER THE PLACE.

DIR. L. E. Cofer chief of the United
States Public Health and Marine Hos
pital Service here, yesterday afternoon
personally conducted a party of lead
ing citizens over the works on wharf
and island of the little quarantine
world across the stream at the city's
foot.
What was seen was to a great extent
a revelation to those invited, for no
one had guessed the many appliances
and the careful system in use and in
vogue for the safeguarding of the COM
munity from imported disease.
President Morgan of the Chamber
of Commerce had issued invitations
and those who went were Governor w.
F. Frear, w. NJ Giffard, B. F. Dilling-
ham, ]. M. Dowsett, Paul r. Isenberg,
F. J. Lowrey, E. E. Paxton, G. H.
Robertson, G. w. Smith, Collector E. r.
Stackable, F. L. Waldron and H. P.
Wood.
The foot of Fort street was left about
3 O'Clock, in a launch, and the quaran-
tine wharf was the first inspected, DR..
Cofer explaining all that was to be
seen and DR.. James meeting the party
at the wharf and also demonstrating
the utilities and precautions which are
established under the yellow flag.
Those who were of the party includ-
ed the committee of the Chamber of
Commerce interested in health AMI
quarantine affairs. DR.. James, being
in charge of the station, did everything
he could to enlighten the observers and
make their visit pleasant, seconding
DR.. Cofer's kindly attentions.
Appliances for the disinfecting of
vessels at the quarantine wharf excited
much interest. Here also is the gear
for disinfecting passengers, for fum;.
eating or disinfecting their clothes
and baggage, for bathing their bodies
by showers from aloft and aside. There
are other conveniences of the latest
continuance, for reaching the recesses
of holds, now being installed. Three
cylindrical retorts, into which articles
to be disinfected are conveyed on
trucks, are in use. Fumes from these
are exhausted before the retorts are
opened.
Passing along the pier leading from
the wharf to the quarantine island the
visitors remarked the quantity of oil
on the water and on the piles, an illus
tration of the amount let into the har-
Dor by oil ships.
1t was found that quarantine island
was much beyond what was expected
in the matter of improvements. 1t has
been raised much above high tide by
dredgings from improved sections Of
the harbor and a concrete wall goes
around the little isle. Under the di-
rection of Dr. James many trees have
been planted, but the doctor wishes for
cocoanuts, believing that these trees
will give the island an inviting appear
ance. Paul Isenberg promises to do
nate a good number of these ornamel-
tai trees.
On this island there are accommoda-
tions for so first cabin passengers, 300
European steerage, 900 Orientals and
1900 soldiers, tent platforms being pro-
vided for the latter. Camp kitchens,
laundries, isolation hospitals, hospi-
tails for non-contagious diseases, with
all their necessary conveniences, are
established. Everything is so con-
structed and arranged as to be easy to
keep perfectly sanitary. The build
ings are frame and rest on concrete.
A great deal is still needed, however,
and congress has been asked for electric
lights, roads, better water supply and
additional and better buildings.
The stations regular force has doue
what it could in the way of roads and
DR.. James is constructing a short cut
to the mainland, near the railroad
wharves, by removing surface soil from
the coral and filling in the holes in the
coral. so that at low tide there is a
hard bed for wagons, though when the
tide is up the roadway is over foot
under water.
Lunch was served in the dining room
of the cabin passengers quarters and
what had been seen was discussed, the
general opinion being that the local
Federal health authorities had accom-
plished splendid and effective work
with the material and funds allowed,
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ROCKEFELLER AN ABSTAINER.