The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-11-14

Blue had visited the zone about a wear
ago and his recollection of the status
of the banana was that it was barred
in a general order that forbade shrub.
berry or trees of any kind except the
eoeoannt trees within a hundred or
hundred and fifty yards Ga very diff
ferent thing from hundred and fifty
feet) from any dwelling in the canal
zone.
Doctor Pratt, president of the board
Of health, stated that he had been
specifically told by the medical officers
IN charge of the mosquito work that
bananas were tabu along the "Great
Work"
Distinctions Necessary.
Major Kennedy, Medical Corps, u. s.
A., member of the committee, stated
that he believed it should be impressed
on the public that the campaign is
directed against the yellow.fever mos
quito only and not the night MOSQUITO
or the other varieties Of daylight mos
quito.
He called attention to the fact that
where the destruction of the Stegomyia
calopus, the yellow fever mosquito.
was comparatively easy owing to its
habits of breeding, the destruction of
the night mosquito, much more vigor-
GUS and hardy, would be a colossal
task.
Doctor Blue made an inspection Of
the Waikiki marshes yesterday in com
pany with Doctor Currie, with the
view of determining their mosquito
1 breeding status. Doctor Currie report-
ed at the meeting that they found
wrlgglers in the pukas and reedprown
corners of the marsh, but thew conId
not find any in the ponds themselves or
anywhere else where the fish could
reach. They brought bottles full of
the wrigglers back to headquarters.
and the two experts pronounced them
the larvae of the night mosquito.
The great breeding farmsp Of the
day mosquito, the only object of at
tack in this campaign. was conseouent-
| lly another bubble among the others 70
be picked by the weight of exnert
testimony yesterday.
The Days Work.
Doctor Currie reported yesterday that
the entire organization had been com
pieted yesterday morning by the plac-
ing of 100 prisoners on the lob at
Waikiki, making 72S men in all en-
pioyed on this great undertaking.
The prisoners, under the direction of
Special Lieutenant Arthur G. Spencer
were put at work on the big corner of
marsh land that lies between Kalakaua
Avenue and King street east of it. Az
ter days work of about nine hours
they had succeeded in cleaning about
twenty-five acres of all of what is term
ed in the Instructions" weeds and
worthless growth.
"I'll say for the prisoners that they
certainly worked splendidly," said
Lieutenant Spencer yesterday and the
ground they covered looked as if they
had.
Every weed in the section is s'down
and out, the streams and ponds have
been cleared of all rushes and reeds
and stocked with fish which can now
get to all corners of them, and all the E
little marshy holes eradicated or oiled.
Spencer reportes swarms of mosquitoes
all over the district and also states
that thousands of breeding places of
the day mosquito were found and de-
stroyed
''The Admiral of the Scows,'' as J.
r. Gait, the committee in charge of
them, calls himself, reported that the
loads of refuse arriving at the wharf
ed in all afternoon. The seow, reports
the man in charge of it, had been per
mitted to drift ten or twelve miles out
before dumping owing to favorable
winds and tide, the assertion being re-
peated in spite Of the lncredulity Of
the committeeman. Under ordinary cir
cumstances 1t is planned to send the
seows out about FIVE miles before they
are dumped.
Doctor Smith Of the committee, 10
ported that Admiral Cowles had an
nounced himself ready 10 lend one on
more seows in ease the committee be
came swamped, q condition as Chair
man Dillingham; remarked, that could
easily be proved now.
-Four Or hye minor kicks were receiyl
cd during the day and only two Of any
aeriOnunona These latter were from
David Motley and q man named 6mythe
who emuiated the example 0f Deputy
Rose and IL r. Mills and sent word a
Doctor Carrie that they would fsfaad
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