The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-03-21

thing possible to facilitate Cling In
the ponds.
"a am not fully informed said
Mr. Mott-Smith, whether the United
States Marine Hospital Service will
maintain the quarantine on outgoing
vessels until these ponds are filled IN,
but / think il is not improbable that
they win continue it for some time
yet.
eff this quarantine is maintained
1t VIII cause no small financial loss to
this city and it is certainly up to US
to do everything in our power to stamp
out and make sanitary every possible
source of infection. This we propose
to do.
No Dirty Poi.
81 may also state most emphatically
that the poi shops win not be reopensd
until they comply with safe and SAM
tary conditions of manufacture. The
manufacture of poi for the past two
years particularly has been conducted
under the most unsanitary and filthy
conditions. The shops will not be al
lowed to reopen except Under the CON
ditions we impose As to whether poi
conveyed the disease, / would call at
tention to the fact that not a single
case in any new district has been dis
covered since the sale and manufac-
ture of poi was restricted"
Yesterday the board of health all
lowed bathing between Diamond Head
and Fort De Russy. A few availed
themselves of the privilege. A larger
number would probably have done so
had the removal of the restrictions
within these limits been more widely
known.
II believe that the cholera epidemic
is now over,o said Moses It. Cleyg YES,
to-day to representative of The Ad-
vertiser. "But," he added, - it IS diff
fIcult. TO say hcw long it will be before
there is no further danger from infec-
ton. The chances are that after five.
days tie organisms have lost their
virulence, hut this may be regained bv
passing through the intestinal tracts of
those who may be exposed to them.
The restrictions imposed by the board
Of health may safely be kept in force
for another month or two"
Mr.. Clegg ridiculed the idea which
has been current in certain quarters
that possibly the late epidemic was not
Asiatic cholera, but ptomaine poisoning
or something of that nature He
definitely and positively stated that he
isolated the cholera organism first in
pond in the Kewalo district, and also
found the bacillus in a vessel of water
, taken from the Manoa district. He
said that he had NOT been able to
isolate it in amy food, as it is very
difficult to trace in foodstuffs He
stated that live fish were not known to
harbor the cholera germ, but they
could easily be made to carry it by
contaTt.jl as aAA aafesr FeJ7 ~
Complete Proof.
"The organism is easily recogniz.
able, said the bacteriologist, tfand
there is no possibility of mistakinp it
for any other. I not only isolated the
organism in pure culture, but it was
proven to be the bacillus of Asiatic
cholera by complete archaeological
tests, as well as by animal NEGOTIATIONS.
| Doctor Sinclair the bacteriologist for
the Territory, has made bacteriolo.
gical diagnosis of all cases of cholera
that have occurred since the beginning
of the epidemic, and in every instance
! the organism was IDENTICAL
The expert stated that the germ was
undoubtedly imported from Some place
1 in the Orient, but it would be mere
guesswork to say whether from Japan,
China. Russia, or the Philippines, as
the disease is prevalent in all those
countries at the present time.
Praises Prompt Work.
Doctor Clegg further said that the
highest praise should be given to the
board of health for the prompt and ef-
fective measures taken by them to
stamp out the disease, and only in this
way he says, was the city saved from
very serious spread of the epidemic