The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1911-11-04
Honolulu
Newsletter
A Yellow Fever Episode That Has Aroused
The POpuIace-BiII Boards in Favor.
(By Manuel de Coste.)

another" Now we have a little
yellow Jack, and are trying to look
pleasant. The advisability of coal
ing the Hongkong Maru when she
came into port was questioned by a
merchant, but it made no difference.
Then comes the quiet criticism OF
DR. Ramus for putting an easy going,
not to say ignorant, Hawaiian guard
on fevership to hold the physical
destinies of many thousand persons.
His comeback is that there are no
immunes available for guards and
the only available ones are Hawai-
ians. Available, yes because no ef-
fort was made to get men of greater
intelligence, or judgment, to watch
the ship. Whether we have epidemic
or not depends upon whether the
man stopped anywhere on his way
home from quarantine. If he was a
clean liver he did not drop into the
nearest place for drink of square
face or a sandwich. If there were
no mosquitoes to bite him after the
first chill there will be no more cases.
The impression is that he was so ill
that he made up the railway tracks
for home where he remained. Here
again Ramus comes in for censure
in not keeping track of the man who
had asked for permission to leave
for day, because he had had a
strenuous time of it. Under the cir
cumstances it was the duty of the
chief sanitary officer to see where
the missing man was, and where he
had been in the interval between his
leaving and their locating him. Prior
to that he is as safe and as free from
power of infection as anyone. Now
we are under the necessity of wait
ing ten days longer before it is de-
fnitely settled that no one has been
innoculated by a mosquito, who has
sunk his bill into the sick man. Just
now he is the safest man in the ISL
ands because his period of doing bad
is over. 1t is along story, this yellow
fever business, and it would require
the knowledge of a doctor to enable
me to give you the why's and where
fores of the manner and period of
transmission of the disease. The
time for greatest worry will be ten
days hence. One thing the pa
pers here have not dwelt upon is
the fact that there were two deaths
on the Hongkong Maru before reach
ing Honolulu, besides the one which
occurred through man being wash
ed overheard. 1t is possible the
other two had fever.
Usually there is a holler here be-
cause the newspapers give publicity
to anything that will keep tourists
out of the country, but | have not
heard much about the present case
that has been iarring to the souls of
the hotel men. Naturally they will
feel it, if there should be an exodus
of visitors as there was when the
cholera appeared last year, just as
the tourists came in. But whatever
the newspapers have done it is not
as bad knock as the scarehead that
has been put on the bill boards by
an over Jealous individual, who
mayhap feels that he is doing the
country a service. The biggest mos
quito he could find in a Liliha street
taro patch was evidently selected
for enlargement many diameters,
and put on bill boards all over
town with the warming You get
the mosquito or the mosquito will
get you." | have a hunch that it
has been painted today SO as to be
a welcome to the tourists, one hun
dred and thirty-seven, by the way,