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cial. After consultation with the meml^ers of the committee 

 on animal industry, I notified the Honokihi Amusement Com- 

 pany that the doo^s would have to go into quarantine upon 

 arrival and suggested that the said company cable the owners 

 to that effect. This they did not consider necessary, stating 

 that the dogs would probably be shipped direct to the coast on 

 the same steamer when it was learned on arrival that they 

 could not perform here. 



A deputation of officers from Schofield Barracks called on 

 me last week, requesting that a branch quarantine station for 

 dogs be established at Leilehua and placed in charge of the 

 cavalry veterinarian stationed there. The officers were advised 

 to make a written application to the board, giving their reasons 

 why this should be done. 



In concluding this subject I beg to emphasize that I consider 

 the rabies situation as an extremely serious matter, as t'^e in- 

 troduction of the disease into the Territory would prove noth- 

 ing short of a calamity, which undoubtedly would result in 

 the sacrifice of a number of human lives. With the nearest 

 Pasteur Institute 4,000 miles away and without means for 

 sending indigent patients there for treatment — it would cost 

 at least $500 for each person bitten to obtain treatment in either 

 St. Louis or Austin, Texas — it would seem that no step to pre- 

 vent the entrance of the disease should be neglected or over- 

 looked. And as already stated, the most important means to 

 this end is to gain the confidence and the cooperation of the dog- 

 owners by providing safe, sanitary and comfortable quarters 

 for quarantine. In the meantime I would suggest that steps 

 be taken to reduce the ])rincipal means of transmitting the 

 disease — the stray and ownerless dog — to the smallest possible 

 minimum. There are hundreds and hundreds of such dogs 

 roaming the streets of Honolulu by day and infesting the alley- 

 ways and back yards by night in quest of food, upsetting gar- 

 bage cans, killing poultry, fighting among themselves and alto- 

 gether providing one of the worst nuisances with which the 

 city is aftlicted, and one which is invariably noticed l)y the 

 tourist before anything else, and which makes him wonder — 

 if a dog owner — why these stringent cjuarantine regulations, 

 when no other efforts are being made to protect the inhabi- 

 tants as well as the decent dogs from the numerous external 

 as well as internal parasitic diseases with which the scavenger 

 dog is affected. A letter from this board to the proper author- 

 ity under whose jurisdiction the cnf(~)rcemcnt of the dog license 

 act comes, whether the board of health or the board of super- 

 visors, should be sufficient, tmder the present circmnstances, 

 to cause a speedy reduction in the ranks oi" these dangerous 

 and often repulsive "friends of man." A general dog muzzling 

 act, which is always the first slej) to be taken when rabies 



