The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-12-01

Of yellow fovcr wta reported, and that
you know the general conditions here
as you know them now, or moro thor
ouRhiy, would you have ordered The
cutting down Of banana trces7"
DR. Rupert Bluo-sI would have or
dered the cutting down Of the banana
trees around houses for. two reasons
FIRST that they are q breeding place for
and second because they a.
tract mosquitOes by the odor OF the
flowers, the ripe fruit and the shade
they aford. - M
The nbOve question and answer ask
ed and made yesterday morning be-
fore Circuit Judge w. L. Whitney gave
Doctor Blues opinion as an expert
sanitarian on tho present anti-mosqui-
to and yellow fever campaign. Later,
under cross-examination by Deputy At.
tornoy- General Sutton, the doctor re-
peated a similar sentiment. He was
asked if he approved the course that
had been taken in the sanitary cam
paign, ana replied directly that he did.
Doctor Blues testimony was taken
yesterday because he has to leave for
Washington on Friday. He had been
called as witness by H. T. Mills,
plaintiff in the injunction suit brought
to prevent the emitting of bananas on
Mills Kaimukl place. Under examina-
ton by Mills he gave some very inter
esting facts concerning the mosquito,.
yellow fever and general sanitation
matters. The questioning began with
questions as to the Doctors experience,
and after the man who seems likely to
be surgeon general of the United States
had told of the degrees he holds and of
the experiences he has had as a sani-
tartan, the local problems were taken
up. 't'd ~ .ye,ss4 .
al.'4Jjc WAS With oorgas. Ja- al,
3 Doctor Blue told of having been. with
Colonel Gorgss, at Panama, and having
gone over the sanitary work there with
one of the men under Gorgas, in July,
1910. az $40,
+ /" Were there any mosquitoes there's =
asked Mills ~ mn
Doctor Blue replied that he saw some,
and was bitten by them, In the Jungle
and at the Tivoi hotel. They were not
at all numerous. He visited the large
hospital there, but didn't remember
seeing any banana trees near it, he
thought that if there had been any he
would have remembered seeing thetiis
There were palms and eoceanut treesa 9
"There were bananas wild in the
jungle, - said the witness, in answer to
a question, and replying to another
query ne said he had not heard of any
bananas being cut down. He had not
discussed banana trees with Colonel
Gorgas and didn't know his views
about them. He said that he remem
bered Colonel Gorgas one day express''
ing surprise when he saw some natives
with ripe bananas. The colonel won
dered where they had got them
Local Explorations
Doctor Blue said that he had seen a,
good. deal of Honolulu during his three
weeks here, but had not had time to-
make all the explorations he wanted to-.
al saw great many bananas and
great many were brought to the of
fice,u said Doctor Blue. 81 cut some
myself both private and commercial
bananas"
Mills wanted to know if there was
any difference between the bananas in
private premises and those in planta-
tions, which he called incorporated
bananas Doctor Blue said that the
only difference he noted was that the
commercial banana plants were of a
smaller variety.
A number of times Doctor Blue dis
claimed any personal experience as an
entomologist except in the past three
weeks, as far as mosquitoes were con-
cerned, but he quoted the authorities
he had studied and said he had kept
up his studies constantly. After he had
stated that mosquitoes might breed in
the mountains, Mills asked if it were
possible to rid Oahu entirely of mos
quitoes.
Practical Elimination.
az don't think it possible to rid the
island entirely of the Species" said
Doctor Blue. but the number can be
reduced 90 materially that you would
hardly know they were here.
Doctor Blue emphatically stated that
as far as he knew there was no scienti-
fic conclusion that the ealopus was the
only mosquito that would transmit yell
low fever. The stegomyia seutellaris
was very numerous here, aud tile stegOi
myla calopus, the recognized yellow
fever transmitter, had been found IN
eight places. lie had Matched out mos
qhtoes himself from Wrigglers which
he had personally taken from bas
mana plant al Waikiki.
~ have found three kinds Of mos.
quito here, said Doctor Blue, mention
ing the euleg and the two kinds Of
stegpmyia, oand ! have specimens Of
two Others which are different from
them, haYe not had time 10 examine
them, ana shall probably take ihem
with mo for examination and rlhsrlhea
fioa.
Janndiee and yellow Fever
IN answer 10 b question about yellow
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