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QUARANTINE STATIONS. 



In connection with the importation of live stock and the above 

 mentioned absence of disease, it is w^orthy of note that the Board 

 has done everything in its power not alone to guard against the 

 introduction of infected animals, but also to facilitate the impor- 

 tation of valuable breeding animals and assist the progressive 

 stock breeder in bringing such into the Territory with as little 

 cost and inconvenience as possible. To this end two ports of 

 entry besides Honolulu, that is. Hilo and Kahului, were during 

 the past year provided with quarantine stations. The Hilo station 

 cost nearly $3000 and the Kahului Station about half of that 

 amount, besides which the Board provided a permanent caretaker 

 for each. Both stations are of solid construction and absolutely 

 modern in so far as sanitation and hygiene, as well as comfort 

 and convenience, are concerned. The old quarantine station at 

 Hilo was at best a makeshift affair, while importations of live 

 stock for the Island of Maui had to be quarantined, when re- 

 quired, at Honolulu, and were it not for the uncertainty engen- 

 dered through the change in the national administration, these 

 improvements would undoubtedly have seen a great increase in 

 the numbers of draft and breeding animals imported. The ob- 

 servations made by this Division during the past eight years have 

 however demonstrated beyond a doubt that so long as new cen- 

 ters of infection are prevented from gaining entrance it is pos- 

 sible to eradicate the infection already established here. The fol- 

 lowing section of this report, dealing with glanders, shows this 

 most clearly and accentuates the necessity for continuing the 

 policy of vigilance embodied in the Board's regulations requiring 

 inspection, testing and quarantine of all live stock coming from 

 or through a state, territory or country known to be infected 

 with one or more of the numerous animal scourges from which 

 the Territory now is free. 



DISEASES OF I.R'E STOCK. 



Glanders. It is witii considerable satisfaction that tliis Division 

 believes itself justified in claiming that glanders, the most de- 

 structive of all equine diseases, has apparently been eradicated 

 from the Territory, especially in view of the fact that the disease 

 was very prevalent here when the Division was established about 

 nine years ago, and that no indemnity has ever been paid for 

 destroyed animals. This is a feat which the best live stock sani- 

 tarians have claimed to be impossible and one that has not been 

 accomplished anywhere else in the civilized world. It must, how- 

 ever, be said that it would have been nearly as difficult here had 

 it not been for certain natural, especially climatic, conditions and 

 resulting circumstances, all of which tended to favor the efforts 

 at eradication. The prime factor, however, was the exclusion of 



