The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-08-10
Two Hundred Cabin voyagers
Send Radiogram To Advertiser
Rating Quarantine Methods
LAW AND COMPANY RULES
KEPT BIG LINER OUTSIDE
Federal inspection Was Impos-
sibIe To Permit Steamer To
: Dock Before Sunset

/ "A radiograrn was received by Tho
Advertiser at nine fifty o'clock last
night from the steamer Mongolia, lying
of port, protesting against the action
OF the quarantine officers in not giving
Ipratique and permitting the ship TO en-
ter last night instead Of this morning.
"Great indignation expressed by 600
cabin passengers against quarantine
doctors, after having been advised Of
our expected arrival, not waiting six
minutes to save them twenty -four
hours delay IN reaching San Fran.
CISCO the message read.
NIt was signed by Senator Willard
Salisbury of Delaware, Rear.Admiral
w. G. Cowles, +. T. P. Warehouse of
Honolulu and Col. Sam Johnson Of
Honolulu.
Gould Not Como InAde FL
Because the Mongolia did not get
pratique, she could not come inside.
She was scheduled TO sail at ten clock
this morning for San Francisco; the
revised schedule calls for FIVE clock
this afternoon, seven hours later.
DR.. C. NJ. Fauntleroy Of the public
health service, In charge of the physi.
clans who would have boarded the
ship, told of his reasons, when advised
OF the receipt Of the radiogram.
~ The reasons were several. Chief
and fnal-was the citation of the
United States law, passed by congress,
which requires that all vessels be in
spected between artnrise and sunset.
Inspected means the completion of the
inspection
Inspection Was Impossible
Doctor Fauntleroy said he could not
have completed the inspection before
eight-thirty o'clock. According to the
United States weather Office report,
supplied to the press, the sun set at
six-thirty-one o'clock last night, two
hours before Doctor Fanntleroy esti.
mated he could have finished,
Doctor Fauntleroy said that the ship
| did not get of port until six-twenty,
Ave O'Clock, as he timed it from the
waterfront; that it Is difficult OF
almost impossible to recognize some
dangerous diseases by other than sun,
light, which is the reason for the Law
cited; and that he would not endangel
the health Of the community by giving
night inspection to q ship with 1000
persons aboard, especially one coming
from the Orient. -.
Pacific Nah Rule Governs
Moreover, there is rule of the Pa
ciac Mail against vessels coming IL
after sunset, and the sun wonld havl
yet two hours before the time Doctor
| Fauntleroy estimated he would hay,
completed Pratique. -
"The ship is from the Orient" tn,
lOctor continued, "and from at leas
three badly infected ports--Hongkong
Shanghai and Yokohama. HongkonI
and Shanghai are worse; but, from tim,
to time, quarantiDable diseases are dis
covered at Yokohama, and we never cal
tell when some will come from tina
port. We have Withdrawn our medica
officer there, and we have TO be yer,
careful of all passengers from Yoke
hama, as well as Hongkong and shang
hal. = ~
Now, we could not have inspecte,
the ship until long after shutdown, ever
though we had gone out. II is aimos
impossible to detect certain diseases
such as smallpox and scarlet fever, b,
artificial light.
Community Must Be Protected
~ could not stretch this point.
am not justified in endangering tn
health of this community by thus in
specting 1000 Passengers from port
where there are continually plague
cholera, smallpox and typhus fever.
consider that the company was not in
eOnveniensed by our not giving tn
Mongolia pratique,e the doctor cor
tinued, referring to the point made tina
the Mongolia would not have been pei
mitted by the eempany's rules to ente
had she been passed last night. Thi
rule was made after the Mongolia wen
ashore at Midway and the Manchuri
at Kaneohe. e.. '.Fa>ar
Doctor Fauntleroy said that he II
NAMED on the waterfront until tn
ship was of port, when he timed he
catching It at six-twenty-fv
'My' only wish is to serve the con
munity we'll, and believe / was dom
that in not inspecting the ship" tn
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