The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-12-17
COOPERATION
APPEALED FOR
ALL MOSQUITOES MUST GO
Chamber of Commerce Speakers
Ask Help in Making City
Immune From Disease.

practise, DOCTOR hODuy, cnleI Quarhn-
tine officer of the port of Honolulu,
yesterday addressed the members of the
chamber of commerce at their bimonth.
/, ly meeting on the subject of the i'm
portance Of quarantine in Hawaii.
President Mott Smith of the board
| of health also addressed the meeting
on the work carried on by that depart
ment and especially those things Of
special gravity which are before it at
the present time.
Doctor Hobby dwelt with particular
emphasis on the yellow fever, its causes
and prevention and at the completion
of has address, those who heard him
had their ideas on the danger from
contagious diseases considerably disar'
| ranged.
After giving a resume of the geogra'
phical position of the islands which is
itself the heaviest handicap on the
quarantine service, and the various quar-.
antinable diseases, Doctor Hobby went
into n more detailed account of malaria
and yellow fever.
"Malaria is Just rs bad,' he said,
y
health officers can not isolate and quar-.
antine a case of malaria so your quar-.
antine officers can not quarantine and
disinfect incoming ships for malaria or
what is still worse, for malaria infect.
ed mosquitoes. This particular mos
quito, ] believe does not exist here,
! was unable to find it.
"In the case of yellow fever it seems
to me thrt we ale in a still more pre-
carous condition, for here the fire is
all laid and ready, the kindling is even
" distributed, and only the match is
wanted. With large population en-.
tirely nonimmune, with the stegomyia
mosquito widely scattered all needed
is one early unsupported case of yellow
fever to slip through quarantine or one
yellow fever infected stegomyia mos
quito to fit up Fort street--after that
the deluge.
GA yellow fever case is absolutely
harmless to others in the absence of
the conveying mosquito. If then in
addition to its campaign against rats
the board could institute relentless
and unceasing war against mosquitoes,
arousing the interest and enlistirg the
sympathy and help of the entire com
munity this city could in my opinion
be rendered to all intents and purposes
noninfectible. Such campaign, how
ever, must be preceded by another, q
campaign of education, and it is just
here that the responsibility falls, to 9
1 great extent, on this society. If this
talk helps arouse you to accept this
responsibility and begin this campaign
| of education it's object will have been
accomplished.
Concerning the danger from outside
infection, Doctor Hobby gave the fol
lowing resume of existing conditions:
"Let us glance for a moment at {
list of these various ports that fringe
the shores of the Pacific Ocean, sur
round Hawaii, and with which we ar,
! in constant communication: To the cas-
s we have in our own United States, Seat
s tie, San Francisco and Los Angeles, no
at present plague infected but the ter
rain back of San Francisco is, wher
e the disease has spread to the groun
h squirrels and all three cities participat
J. ed in the recent epidemic on the Coast
Next we have Mazatlan, with its cpl
demic of plague and smallpox. Man
y zanillo, with its smallpox, malaria an
l. possibly yellow fever, and Acapulco an
g. Salna Cruz the same South of thes
a come Guayaquil, Babohoyo, Milayr
and Talti all of which are at presen
plague-infected while the first nance
g enjoys the doubtful honor of bein
o doubly infected with both plague an
> yellow fever. 1t was here that Docto
!, Wightman, an officer of this service
lost his life about three months ag
q fighting yellow fever. Still furthe
e south are Molendo, Callao, Lima, Pait
| 81 OIL oil Y.In In 20 IN
., and all infectible with yellow fever an
d malaria while still further south ar
II Antofogasta, africa, Iquique and Talta
d also all pfague.infected. Within tn
IS last three months n new steamshi
le route has been opened from Japa
m which takes in every one of the abov
70 mentioned ports except those in tn
ir United States and which touches 9
D. Honolulu both going and coming. A
III most directly south we have Brisban
I'd Newcastle and Sydney, all of which al
u plague.infected today and all of whic
De have had from two to half n doze
epidemics of plague.
re Swinging round the circle to III
lt northward from these ports We con
Of to Calcutta, Bombay, Singapore, Chole
1T and Saigon all of which enjoy the nj
IN enviable fame Of being objected, toda.
re with plague, cholera and smallpox an
At some of which furthermore have M
sc been free from any Of these diseases
m the last FIVE years.
g. "To the eastward and n little near'
ns to MS lies Manila, the capital of N
to Philippines. that blood and treasur
bought jewel Of ours in the Far Eas
10 infected AZ present with smallpox an
v, cholera, the latter disoase alone ha
o. ing 70 lis credit, during the third qua
he ter Of 1908, nearly $4,000 cases, vii
over II 900 deaths "
r. Doctor Hobby concluded with Il
al Chinese aud Siberian coast cities an
nj with general summing up Of The rel
M. tive danger Of the qunranlinhb
a a senses, In which be easily ranked "
4. low foyer first cn condition that II
be- possible precautions were not taken,
la following Doctor liohdy NJ Mot
he smith related the efforts that the boa
90 1T health iH making ~ "a tho eli