The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-01-12

hospital islands, were totally unfit |
for the reception and care of pas
sengers Of infected vessels, and that |
cholera patients were taken care of
in the most careless manner. The |
report closes thus; cit is the unau- |
imous opinion of those posted on
such matters that it would be diff !
cult TO imagine worse state of at-
fairs than now exists at quarantine,
It is hard TO realize in this age Of
civilization that the harbor of the
city of New York should be SO in.
adequately provided with facilities
for the prevention and extinction OF
epidemics. This is interesting
reading in view of the fact that a
vessel infected with small pox lies
at quarantine.-TW Weekly Bulletin,
Dec. 81, 1887.
DEATHS DURING THE PAST wEEK--AC-
T1v1TIEs IN vACCINATIoN-NEw
CASES OF SMALL PoX.
One hundred and forty,seven
deaths were recorded at the Health
Office during the week ending last
night. as against 40 the cores
ponding week last year. Males
1O2, females 45. Natives of the
Pacific Coast, 10; of other sections
of the Union 2S and "A were of for
eign birth. The decedents under
one year of age numbered Is and
21 were over sixty years old.
There were suicides, ) casualties,
and 27 died in public institutions.
The principal causes of death were:
ApoplcXy, 81 alcoholism, 8; bron-
chitis, ,; cancer, 5; Group, ? con
WILSON'S, 2; cerebro-spinal menin-
gifts, ?; diptheria, 8; dropsy, Il
typhoid fever, i inanition, 10;
heart disease, 4 kidney disease, 3;
liver disease. 5; lung disease, .;
measles, 8; paralysis, 4; phthisis,
20; pneumonia, %; peritonitis, A.
small poX, l.
Another man afflicted with small
poN was sent to the Twcnty-siXth-
street Hospital from the Central
House, S7l Market street, last
night. This makes the eight pa
tient taken from this quarantined
house.
y boy eighteen years of age, was
sent out this morning from Jones
street, between Pacific and Broad
way.
Over one hundred and fifty small
poN patients have been sent to the
hospital since last May.
Timothy Garvey, who was sent to
the hospital on the 24th inst, from
his residence at the foot of Jackson
street, died in that institution this
morning. The deceased was en-
ployed on the steamer ID. E. Knight
running to Marysville.
Last evening, the three large
rooms occupied by tie Board of
Health in the KIN street wing of
the new City Hall were crowded to
excess by persons wishing to be vac
cinatod. The corridor leading to
the rooms was so crowded that
Mayor Pond telephoned to Chief
Crowley for police officers to keep
order. Three officers were imme,
diately detailed for the duty. Sev-
craI hundred were vaccinatcd by
Drs. Urban and Fox.
The rooms were crowded with
men, women and children to-day
and the good work Of vaccination il
going on as rapidly as can be done
with the present force.
DIR. Gale verified three cases o
small pox this morning, and the pa
tients were sent to the hospital.
One was man twenty-eight year.
of age, residing at s, Monroe street
Another man, twenty-six years 0
age, resided on the 1000 numbere,
block Of Hyde street.
The white walls of small ten
= were seen through the trees in Ports
b mouth Square this morning. TIL
gates remained closed and the pas
ser-by became aware that the prett
breathing-place had been tempora
c rily turned into q small poX incloi
t ure. This morning, between 8 an
G 8 o'clock, the first two patients al
r. rived at the new hospital, both frol
the immediate neighborhood.
I perceptible shudder made its wa
1t down the backs of the people in til
!, vicinity when they were informe
: that there were two well-adyance
cases of conAuent small poX within
stones throw of the old City Ha
and under no better shelter tia
q that afforded by the canvas of
1t tent. At noon the two patient
j. were still in the tent. One of I'll
men was found Oh MontgomeI
street, between Washington an
= Clay He is thirty-seyen years {
e age and is afflicted with conlIuel
1t type of the disease. He said thi
J. some two weeks ago, he roomed
- the Central House For the pa
. two days he has been roaming aboD
the streets.