The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-10-10
CHOLERA DYING OUT.
THE PLAGUE AT HONOLULU PRAC-
TICALLY AT AN END.
During the Epidemic the Record
Shows Eighty-seven Cases and
Sixty-two Deaths.

HONOLULU, Oct. 2.-Cholera in Homo
lulu appears to be substantially at an
end. An interval of eight days, from the
18th to 9th, passed without fresh case
The cholera hospital was emptied and the
nurses were dismissed. Then a case ap-
peared in the infected tenements on the
Nuuanu stream. On the 2oth a second
an old inmate, who had drank ditch
water among the taro patches.
The record shows eighty seven cases
and sixty-two deaths, as follows: First
week, cases, 6 deaths; second week, II
cases, Is deaths; third week, 40 cases, %
deaths: fourth week, 20 cases. 10 deaths:
fifth week, cases, deaths; sixth week,
= cases, deaths. OF the eighty-seven
cases, seveuty-eight were native Ha-
waiians, two half hites, three Ameri-
cans, two Portuguese, one Chinese and
one Japanese.
one American was the apprentice on
the nited States gunboat bennington.
The second was G. :. Dodge, the business
manager OF lne HdCdttda star. The
third WAS Mrs. Carroll, neighbor of
Dodge. The Chinese cook in the house
died, the only Chinese victim in the city.
The pestilence has been chiefly con-
fined 10 the more degraded class OF native
Hawalians. Before the Sth only twenty
eig int out OF fifty nine cases had been dis
covered until the sufferer was either dead
or dying. After that date four-fiiths of
the cases were reported In time for useful
medical aid. Concealed cases were re-
peatedly detected by inspectors. In a
week The percentage OF fatal cases de-
clined from a previous II per cent. to 3D.
\ still more important help tending To
/ eradicate the disease was the securing of
early distinction OF promises and cloth
/ ing. Friends and neigh bors OF the dying
! failed to make OF with their infected
clothing as before. Those around the
sick we're arrested and quaranIined. In
len days the daily average OF cases de-
clined from seven to one.
/ Seventeen cases OF cholera came from a
I hamlet Of about seventy people. named
Waipilopilo, in western suburb. III be-
gan with eating raw fish, and spread by
/ drinking contaminated surface water, no
! Government pipes reaching the place.
( The survivors were finally removed to
cholera quarantine, and their huts were
burned.
/ on the 23d and 9th general cleansing
and distinction was made Of all build
! ings in infected neighborhoods. Some
1000 buildings were cleaned, white
+ washed and the floors treated with disin-
E
/ ing and bedding were required TO be ex-
posed 10 the sun for several hours.
/ Al all the chief ports of the other
principal isIands-Maui, Hawaii and
kauai-extreme measures have been
taken by the local Health Boards and
! committees of foreign residents. A rigid
EN- barge was created against all passen-
/ gers and freight from Honolulu.
An accurate census of Honolulu has
been derived from the books of the SUBJ
! inspectors. The figures are as follows:
I Hawaiians, including all part-whites o,419
Chinese. O2
Jap tiltse ...-.--.-.-. 2,U69
! BOfLHgut = > 4 >
other foreigners. 42O6
Total population OF fcity.....................s o61
+ This il an increase of .. l54 in five years.
+ The Hawaiialgs have decreased The
/ Portuguese, Chinese and Japanese have
doubled. more or less. Other foreigners
| have decreased Is per cent.