The record-union., 1895-09-13

lsting. Their Kahunas have long taught
| them to fear foreign doctors. Most of the
cases are not reported 10 the authorities
until too far gone for remedy; hence, the
extreme fatality; hence, also, the failure
to secure timely disinfection and prevent
spread OF the peStilance. In most cases
death comes in six to eighteen hours after
seizure. The native has feeble hold on
life.
THE Board of Health and large corps
of physicians have been working with
energy and efficiency for over three
weeks to arrest the pestilence, and with
much success. Every place where case
occurs has been disinfected and quaran-
tined. No cases having occurred for ten
days at Iwilei, the district first attacked,
that section is now out OF quarantine.
kapunkolo. section OF several acres sea-
ward OF King street, is now Quarantlned,
with a military patrol. Colonel McLean's
military are actively employed in this
work there and il other sections.
lnere has been q complete embargo on
freight and passengers to the other islands
for two weeks. A large party of tourists
arriving per Australia on the Sd stayed
aboard and were transferred to the w. q.
Hall to visit the volcano, where they can
get sulphur steam baths. Since none but
natives thus lar take cholera the friends
of these tourists need feel no anxiety.
They will have no contact with the in
fection.
''The absolute restriction of the disease
to the natives, one-fourth of the 10000
people OF this city, is a strange phenom-
euon. There is no call for superstition
about it. 1t is easily accounted for by
the diet and general habits of the natives.
Raw fish is a tavorte diet. and taken
from the contaminated waters of the har-
Dor and stream, have conveyed the poi
soning bacilli into the stomachs OF these
people. Many of them have also washed
their dishes and clothing in the tainted
stream, as we'll as bathed there. They
constantly gather moss in the stream and
on the sea shoals, eating it raw.
Tho Chinese, who continue exempt,
Notwithstanding the great filth of their
premises, eat their food mostly hot, and
drink only boiled water and hot tea.
Japanese do much the same. The Chi
nese are growing very restless under the
severe sanitations Of the Board of Health.
| They also have supersLitions which come
into conflict with The regulations. 1t is
obviously necessary TO the successful car
ryIng out Of those regulations that they
should have a good support from public
opinion. An adverse public opinion is
SO strong among the natives as very
greatly to obstruct the efforts OF the
board.
chief medium of conveying cholera, the
catching and sale of fish, crabs and she'll
fish on this part of the coast has been
prohibited. This has greatly grleyed the
natives. The old fish market has been
demolished for sanitary reasons. The
new market on the esplanade is now oc-
cupied and being gradually fitted up. All
the crowded tenements encroaching on
the stream from Smiths bridge to the
dal1nlIQhaH
the churches were ordered TO oe closed on
September 4th. The Auglical Bishop
Willis denounced the order on Monday
as the most iniquitous and outrageous
abuse OF power since the Papal inter-
diets
Next day the Board of Health made
temperate statement for the strong action
OF The board and the doctors for that order
as follows:
1T was for the protection of native Ha-
waians. Atthe Roman Catholic Churches
all dip their fingers in the same container
of holy water. Some might do this who
were injected. or who had come with
uncle2n hands from an infected house.
Natives whose friends have recently
died, upon meeting acquaintances fre-
quently embrace and wait together, kiss
ing and touching noses. This is often
done when Iepers are being sent away.
Among the first cases OF cholera which
appeared here was that of native
woman who began vomiting in the Ro-
man Catholic Church on Sunday, August
I7th She died shortly after. The physi-
clans reported case taken SO suddenly
last week that the patients clothing and
the chair she was sitting in were all be-
smeared with what came from her person
before she could move from ii. There
was much hesitation in voting to pro-
hibit the church services, but it seemed
that it should be done for the sake OF the
Hawaiians, who are most exposed to
cOntagion, Snd that 1t would not be wise
TO discriminate.
"a similar case of sudden attack is
stated by leading physician. a native
woman, Mrs. ". h.eague. living opposite
the head Of kaikuai street, was partaking
heartily of raw fish, and suddenly, with
out previous warning, belched out,
deluging herself and woman sitting
opposite. She died in few hours"
a very important letter appears this
morning in the AdUerti$er from Mrs.
Nakuina. very able half white lady,
high authority on Hawaiian customs.
She asserts that crabs feast on buried
corpseS, and were nquestionabiy the
medium of transmitting the disease to
Iwilei. She also warns against the dan
ger OF hanaka practices which promote
infection ana against 1ouling of water
sources by natives hiding through terror
in the heads OF the valleys.
1t is probable that the infection OF
harbor water causing cholera on the Ben
nington was directly from the neighbor-
ing quarantine by the medium OF crabs
and sand eels invading graves.
An application has been made 20 the
Foreign Office by ii. NJ. Commissioner
Hawes for the British Government, ask
ing statement of the reasons for the ar
rest anu imprisonment OF James Brown,
l.. J. Levy, VI. q. Bailey. L. II. Red
ward. Thomas Rawlns, Arthur Nc
Dowell, L. Harrison. G. w. Ashford, 6.
&. Kenyon and E. B. Thomas during
martial law last January.
These British subjects had formally ap-
pealed to their Government for redress
Of their wrongs. The legal advisors of
The crown have declined 10 give a deci-
sive answer without reviewing the case
as presented by this Government
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