The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-10-24

DR.. William f. James, of the
Marine Hospital Service, stated last
evening that he thought the Chinese
who is suffering with the disease would
get well, for his condition was favcra-
BILE yesterday,
Arrangements are now being made
for the Hongkong Maru to take water
and coal outside and go on her way to
Yokohama without entering the port,
and this win likely be arranged with
out trouble.
Should fuel and water be taken on
outside in the next couple of days the
vessel will proceed on her way to
Yokohama. without coming inside, as
she haseno cargo for this port.
DR.. William G. Hobby, member of
the Territorial Board of Health and
often called upon as an expert in sani-
tary matters, was most emphatic yes
terday in his warning as to the danger
attending a fOOthOld by yellow fever in
this port
N@-@~~~-NS
Anything that say now in regard
to yellow fever said Doctor Hobby
yesterday, 'tis aeeenthated fby the
presence of yellow fever off port at
the present moment. was talking with
Doctor Ramus this morning and he
says that there is not now a single
mental reservation regarding this case;
that it is beyond shadow of doubt,
a real case of this disease.
GA man with yellow fever is infec-
tious for the first three days of his i'll
ness; that is, if / have yellow fever, 1
can. infect mosquito with the poison
during that period After that i am
harmless. After the yellow fever
mosquito bites patient during the first
three days of illness, she has. to in
cubate that poison for eleven or twelve
days before she can give the infection
to any other individual and after she
has so incubated that poison she is in
fictitious FOR the rest of her life. The
term of life of the yellow fever
mosquito is from thirty to ninety days
and they have been known to exist in
captivity for one hundred and twenty
days.
''That is the only way in which you
or ] can get yellow fever-iust from
that one mosquito, called the stegomia
calopus, the little fellow with the white
stripe from its head down its back be-
tween its wings.
f'This yellow fever mosquito is
abundant throughout all Honolulu and
1T is because of this universal distri-
button that the introduction of yellow
fever in, this city would be so dis
astrous. If one yellow fever case got
through quarantine during the first
three days Of illness, or il an infected
mosquito got through, il would mean
that widespread general epidemic Of
the disease would ensue. The damage
that would be caused by such an cpl
deTpic cannot be overestimated.
OF Special Dea6linsss.
g In the fsst place there are 30 many
Of these mosquitoes here at present that
the epidemic wonld be a great one and
would cost thousands of lives, for any
epidemic disease Is much more fatal
when introduced into a community for
the FIRST time. This is d scientifically
proved fact. We have here no Inherited
resistance 10 the disease. II is a non
disease and ita first appearance would
ing thousands of lives and hundreds Of
thousands of dollars 10 eradicate H.
Secondly Il would be impossible 10
state even approximately the damage
caused by the loss Of our reputation
abroad by having our fame as health
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