The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-11-17


4 ing Mr. Swezey's chances for X
X mistakes and backing up en- X
X phatieaily the experience and OBJ =:
x servation Of the public health X
x and marine hospital service, ex- \
X tending over period of nine y
X years, which points to the fact \
\ that we have the yellow fever X
i mosquito beyond doubt. x
. X x X = r 4 x * X x x x * X .
Differences of opinion on the banana
and mosquito questions yesterday as
sumed sharp distinctions in two oppos.
ite statements. One, to the effect that
there were no yellow fever mosquitoes
here, was accredited to Entomologist o..
II. Swezey of the planters experiment.
al station, and the other was made be-
fore the citizens committee by Colonel
Ebert, Medical Corps, U. s, A., the
ranking medical officer and chief sur
geon in charge of the Western Division
of the Army, which includes Panama
and Hawaii. Colonel Ebert, who ar
rived on the transport, was introduced
to the committee by Major Kennedy Of
the same service, and in the subsequent
discussion strongly backed up the be-
lief of the local army medical officers
and the officials of the public health
and marine hospital service.
| The discussion has now narrowed
down, apparently to one between the
entomologists and the medical officials
of the government service. The com
mittee was yesterday greatly surprised
| by the published statement of Mr.
Swezey, who did not hint at such @
sweeping statement on his several ap'
pearanees before the committee, and
| Chairman Dillingham; expressed a hope
that the entomologist might be right.
! Statements of his own before the com
| mittee, however, to the effect that he
| had never made special study of the
mosquito in Hawaii and had little speci-
| fic knowledge of its habits, was re-
sponsible for a decided leaning towards
| the statements of the federal health
authorities. repeated for the past nine
years, emphatically, to the purpose that
the yellow fever MOSQUITO is here.
81 can appreciate Mr.. Swezey's posi-
tion in regard to bananas" said Col
onel Ebert when asked for his views by
/
| Mr.. Swezey Is statement that he or other
entomologists were unable to find wrig.
glers in that plant. When / was in the
Philippines, our post was seriously af-
flicted with malaria, and over five hum
dred cases appeared in month, which
| il certainly going some. Doctor Craig,
one of the greatest experts on malaria
and the malaria mosquito, came out
and spent a week going all over the
post in an attempt to find the larvae
but departed without doing so. The
very next day the commandant himself
found veritable swarm of the ano-
| pheles or malaria bearing mosquito, on
| the screen door of the hospital" 4"
Colonel Ebert, speaking from n gem
eral knowledge and wide experience
in sanitary work exactly similar to
that in which Honolulu is now engaged,
made statements so pertinent to the
local situation, so damaging to the OPP
ponents of the citizens committee and
its work, ana so emphatically in favor
of the committees plans, that he was
requested TO speak, in company with
Doctor Blue, this afternoon before the
chamber of commerce. lie at once ne
eepted.
81 am sure ! am entirely at your
service he said. 1--WE had the same
kind of fight ON our hands in the
Philippines and anything / can do to
help ont here, / will certainly do"
Bananas and Panama.
Doctor Currie called his attention 10