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on  board  until  arrangements  could  be  made  for  their  safe 
removal  to  quarantine.  The  next  morning  I found  the  actual 
owner  of  the  hogs,  a Chinaman  by  the  name  of  Yee  Yap,  and 
arranged  with  hi  in  to  have  the  hogs  taken  to  the  quarantine 
station  in  Kalihi.  The  animals  were  unloaded  in  two  railroad 
cars  and  were  taken  by  an  engine  to  the  place  where  the  track 
crosses  the  Kalihi  quarantine  station  road.  Here  they  were 
met  by  ten  drays  which  carried  them  to  the  quarantine  station. 
The  further  history  of  this  case  can  be  resolved  into  a state- 
ment to  the  effect  that  even  though  the  apparently  well  ani- 
mals were  segregated  from  the  decidedly  affected  ones  the 
continued  to  die  at  a rate  of  from  three  to  ten  per  day.  It  was 
finally  decided  to  allow  the  Chinaman  to  butcher  those  which, 
after  fourteen  days  of  arrival,  had  shown  no  symptoms  of  the 
disease,  subject  to  a careful  inspection  by  the  Meat  Inspector 
of  the  Territorial  Board  of  Health.  This  was  done  with  the 
result  that  thirty-five  animals  were  saved  out  of  the  total  of 
126.  I would  further  state  that  this  shipment  was  accom- 
panied by  the  usual  certificate  of  inspection  issued  by  the 
Federal  Inspector  in  San  Francisco,  but  I have  learned  that, 
while  the  animals  came  from  a district  in  California  where 
hog  cholera  has  not  been  known  to  exist  for  a long  period, 
they  were  unloaded  and  held  for  several  days  in  Oakland, 
awaiting  shipment,  and  undoubtedly  received  their  infection 
there.  The  fact  that  the  animals  developed  the  disease  so 
rapidly  and  that  many  died  without  having  been  sick  for  more 
than  a few  days  fully  demonstrates  that  the  shipment  came 
from  a place  where  cholera  must  have  been  unknown. 
I have  reported  the  matter  to  the  Federal  Inspector  in  San 
Francisco  and  asked  him  to  ascertain,  if  possible,  where  the 
animals  received  their  infection  and  further  to  suggest  such 
measures  as  in  his  opinion  would  prevent  a recurrence  of  this 
incident. 
QUARANTINE  STATIONS. 
At  the  last  meeting  of  this  Board  I requested  permission 
to  spend  one  hundred  dollars  for  the  purpose  of  placing  the 
quarantine  station  in  Kalihi  in  temporary  repair,  as  it  did  at 
the  time  appear  that  several  months  might  elapse  before  a new 
quarantine  station  could  be  arranged  for  and  built.  With  the 
permission  of  the  Committee  on  Animal  Industry  this  work 
commenced  on  June  4th,  that  is  the  day  before  the  sick  hogs 
had  to  be  brought  to  the  station.  The  fact  that  carpenters 
were  on  the  ground  and  material  there,  enabled  me  to  make  a 
couple  of  pens  hog-proof  and  get  them  into  shape  for  the 
arrival  of  the  sick  animals.  Except  for  this  coincidence  I 
should  not  have  had  a place  where  the  animals  could  have 
been  taken  to.  On  June  9th  the  President  of  this  Board  visited 
the  quarantine  station  in  company  with  me  and  decided  to  ex- 
