The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-03-13
THE PERIL AND THE REMEDY.

The danger which the Hawaiian fraternity is
that Of yellow fever and it is danger which will grow the
Panama Canal completion Already have steamship
necton with southern Mexico and with South America and with
ports which do business with both localities Sanitary
dons here for the greater part Of the time invite pdemics su
as we are having and in the of the yellow eyercayng
mosquito already the ground has waiting
years for with yellow patient
and then go forth to nocuae well people with the dreaded tropical
malady.
Should yellow ultimately us what must be done to
Hawaii from the dreadful experience Maurus? Obviously
the mosquito pest must be got rid of has been Panama There
must be swamps and therefore, swamp agriculture
and no sagnant irrigation bitches duckponds Eventually either
these things must thousands of the people Yet
the places dry would millions of dollars The
expense Of Mr. Pnkhms drainage canal for the Waikiki
alone millions If this project be carried
out and all the swamp farms condemned and rigid
specon private premises every every year
breeding places would immense that the people
would be taxed into poverty Hawaii could bear the burden
it would have surrender it go bankrupt, ...
What them do? If yellow fever be fought
Territory of the Panama strip
New Orleans As we saw the task cannot be dozen by the county or
Territory though both help 1t done by Panama
Havana, Orleans acting for themselves The project
was so bio that it had to fall back on the authority and most of ALL
the financial resources of the United States government
1t will have to be the way Honolulu perhaps
the same way in the other islands And the question comes shall
wait until yellow fever arrives before starting get ready
wage battle with the disease or shall we confess our inability now
to deal with such visitation and surrender inefficient costly
control of sanitary matters into the hands of the United
eminent at once 1t plain enough that We by ourselves cannot
arrest yellow fever lands could afford pay the cost
of trying 1t Honolulu $20OOO0O in cash and $3OOO0O0
property to stamp out the bubonc plague in 1S999O but in few
years the black death back breed the filth which
political of Health had allowed gather
Board with of and aXeang
the Territorial Central Committee having mighty
little it's vany fighting cholera trying
holding the poi for it's long neglect clean the
Suppose the United States take the whole matter of
sanitation here what results might be expected? ''''
Frst-The draining of all the city marshlands. I
abolition swamp agriculture this side of the
KOOlau range. .,.
Thrd-The regular and systematic cleaning of Honolulu under
nOnpoca supervision the private
nusances
Fourth-A persistent anrat antmosquito campaign
FifAn the facilities for the curative
epOsy towards which the Federal doctors have already
taken
SxTh transfer road bridge and school funds of the money
appropriated for the support of epes leaving those unor
Inmates to the larger bounty Of Congress-
SevenhThe relief Of the tourist and real estate business from
the incubus of recurring epidemcs ,,.
EighA settled feeling of security among the populations and
transient visitors
Here are eight for Federal
of local sanitation Against them is but put in various
First and Last-We want to keep the Offices