Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-08

! All the world knows OF the Water
/. loo in Panama. and how richly GorgaS
deserves The credit. given him b. the
most competent judges. iactustag "a
Presidents Roosevelt and Taft. Of Be
ing the man VINO has made the build
! ing Of the Panama canal possible.
/ Warning and Advice to Hawaii.
! In the words % the immortal Cap
tain Cutie, The bearing of this OBJ
/ servation lays IN the application on
liz. We come row. in conclusion, to
THE most important part OF this paper.
Do you know that, fortunately. out OF
from 500 to zoo species OF mosquitoes
There exists in these islands only
three Stegomyia calopus. Stegomyia
lscuteliaris and Culex fatiaans. The
Stegomyia, as We have seen. is the
/! only agent which can carry the virus
,of yellow fever from man to man. Gu
lick fatigans transmits dengue and fl
.lsria. The evidence is that these mos
lquitoes were brought to Hawaii by a
ship, as far back as 1926.
Some two years ago case of yellow
fever was detected in this city = the
patient had. in all probability. been in
fected; that is, bitten by one or more
loaded yellow-feyer mosquitoes. on
board steamer off this port a few
days previously. BY energetic. scien-
ltific, well-directed work, an outbreak
!, of yellow fever in Honolulu was avert
led. Very ugly epidemics have origi-
mated from less serious beginnings.
There are plenty of yellow-feyer
MOSQUITOES ashore here to produce q
great epidemic Of yellow fever but
J not having access to any yellow-fever
patients they remain unirfected end
Iharmiess, One person from an infect
led port or Ship who might enter Ho-
Inolulu in good health and come down
with unrecognized yellow fever after
wards, would probably infect large
number Of Stegonlyia mosquitoes and
lstart a bad epidemic. This occurrence
has been rendered almost impossible
heretofore BY your distance, in time,
from yellow-feY ports and the vigil
lance Of your efficient sanitary off,
GERS on shore and your quarantine
lguardians afloat With the opening Of
1.-THE Panama Canal, and its consequent
immense Increase of commerce and
tclose connection with the yellow-fever
Eports of the Gulf of Mexico and Cen
itral and South America, your danger
Twill be greatly increased.
-lt is reported tnat SO lines OF
steamships have already made ar:
Engagements. to run vessels regularly
between the Atlantic and Pacific
ports, through the Panama canal o.
these, many will doubtless frequentlt
come directly from Panama to Homo
I1rlu without touching at any other
port Many of these steamers will
be large and of great speed; they
IcouId very readily take contaminated
EyelIow-fever mosquitoes on board In
ian infected Brazilian, Mexican a
Central American Port, and get them
there IN good condition and ready foI
business, during the average life.
time Of StegoH1yia-
Enrcute they might sting non,im
Imune passengers who would reach
Honolulu In good health and come
down with yellow fever after having
Handed
Anopheles mosquitoes could very
readily be brought here in the same
way. They have been known tt
make considerable passages in trunks
and boxes and fly out when said re
Ieeptacfes were opened.
Providentially. Anopheles mosqui
ftoes tas well as snal1es) have not yet
appeared in the Hawaiian islands. OF