The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-06-08
The small Pox.

It proper that the public should know that
anot' = case has been taken to the pest house over
on { reef. Last Tuesday night, the wife OF the
native man whom we mentioned last Saturday az
having been removed from the Queens Hospital to
the reef, was also conveyed thilher, and Is now
pronounced to be a case Of y~aroloid- After her
husband had been depOrted TO the reel, she was
examined and discharged as there was considered
10 be no reason for her detention. IL appears that
abe went up in Kalihi valley TO reside. at the hutot
a charcoal burner named AhOlo- Here she was
taken sick, and AhOlO. believing she bad the dreaded
disease, vacated the hut and burned It on Tuesday
morning last The womanf--Whoi Tor her thoughtful
ness deserves 20 have her name recorded Game
down into town alone, sick as che was, hiding as
che says whenever she saw any persons on the road,
and proceeded 20 the Station House, where she
etated her case. DIR. Hoffman, was Immediately
sens for, and found the woman in a high lever, with
all the other symptoms Of i~ncipient desease either
chicken or smallpox, and ordered that she should
be taken 10 the pest house 10 the morning. IL was
however thought best by the police authorities to
take her there at once. and she was accordingly care
fully wrapped in blankets and conveyed over TO tbe
reef by Deputy Marshal Dayton, who was occupied
until a late hour on Tuesday night IN this duty ana
IN this connection IL is only simple justice TO MF.
Dayton to state that he has been active and uDre-
miiting in his care and attention to the wants OF the
exiles OF SaholOloa,"as the inmates Of the pest
house may be called,-makin daily visits TO tue
reef to see personally il an tbing is required. The
inconsideraLe remark was made on the street the
other day, that Marshal Parke had exceeded the
bounds of his Official duty in examinlng into tue
alleged existence Of q case Of a smallpox at the
Queens Hospital, it being the case Of the man sub
sequently removed to the reef. The verdict OF the
public in this matter is that no one 6lling the posi-
ton Of the Marshal can be too yigilantin such cases.
What Mr.. PaTke did do, when the nformatlon
reached him., was to proceed at once to the Hospital
and see for himself as Trustee, (aiter an Intellectual
cndeavor to procure another person to ACCOMPANY
him) and then, being satisfied from inspection that
1t was a very suspicious case, he with as little delay
as possible stated the facts TO those whose official
position required that they should know those facts.
Any other course than that pursued by the Marshal
in this Instance, would undoubtedly and very prop
erly have rendered him liable to censure. MIR.
Parke's visit TO the Hospital was on Friday on the
following Tuesday. after a consultation between
three medical gentlemen. it was decided to remove
che man to the establishment on the reef. and alter
the lapse Of another week. the mans wife Is also
tlken there. Thus il will appear that subsequent
evehts have quite justified the yigilant action oil the
Marshal in the first place. AS to the patients at The
Hospital on the Teef,-the girl who was first taken
is almost cOnValescent, and the man Is rapidly get
ting we'll, under the attentive and skillful care OF
DIR. Hoffman,.
Since the above was intype. Two more cases nave
been discovered, at Waikiki, a man and a woman,
aud removed to the reef. We have no desire 10
create unnecessary alarm, but advise prompt at
tention TO re-vaccinatiOn. The Board OF Health has
dispatched an agent to travel around the Island aud
yaccinate the people, as rapidly as possible, and
the police have received Instructions to Isolate all
suspicious cases of fever which may appear.