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fected, there was a likelihood of every one of the remaining 
troops developing- the disease in varying numbers of cases, and 
when to this is added that the entire regiment had left the 
reservation for a practice tour around the whole island it will be 
seen that there was sufficient cause for apprehension, not to say 
alarm. When, therefore, the following day the regiment arrived 
at Fort Shafter I immediately called on Dr. Vans Agnew and 
laid the facts before him, suggesting the inspection of all the ani- 
mals without delay. This, however, did not prove necessary 
the doctor had been with the regiment all the time and every case 
of sickness was known to him and so far none had shown any 
suspicious symptoms. That was encouraging so far, as the hard- 
ships of the tour undoubtedly would have caused the early ap- 
pearance of symptoms had any of the animals become infected. 
The doctor was, however, positive that there was no discharge 
from the nose of any of the mounts or draft animals and the con- 
clusion was therefore justified that no infection could have been 
scattered by the' regiment even if some cases might develop 
later on. 
It was nevertheless decided to submit the matter to General 
Macomb without delay and as the possible contacts were scat- 
tered through all the troops he was easily persuaded that no half- 
way measures would be of any avail. With the General's sanc- 
tion of a thorough disinfection of all of the stables at Schofield 
Barracks I applied to the Board of Health for the loan of the 
portable steam disinfection plant, which, the following morning, 
was placed on board a train and shipped to Leilehua. 
In this connection I wish to state that the Board of Health, 
represented by Mr. Charlock, acting president, and Mr. Kirk 
Porter, secretary, did everything possible to assist in eradicating 
this infection which threatened the decimation of the cavalry 
and artillery horses stationed here. Not alone did they supply 
the engine with hundreds of feet of hose, but they advanced the 
requisite disinfecting material (corrosive sublimate and hydro- 
chloric acid), and for two days Mr. Charlock, with an engineer 
and an assistant, supervised and directed the work, giving their 
time as well as experience in handling as extensive an undertak- 
ing a? the disinfecting of 1200 stalls. 
A force of privates was put to work removing all straw, bed- 
ding and feed from mangers, racks and stalls, all of which was 
carted away and destroyed by burning, after which the hose 
gang saturated all woodwork and floors with the strong disin- 
fectant. After this had been allowed to soak in, the surplus 
liquid was washed away with clean water in the same manner as 
the disinfectant had been applied, and it is a matter of record 
that not a single case of poisoning was reported after the animals 
had been returned to the stalls. All watering troughs were 
emptied, cleaned and disinfected and the fact that only one sus- 
