Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-09-26
THE AUSTRALIA.
Was Not Guaranteed on Arrival at
San Francisco.


Francisco on the afternoon Of the
18th.
Captain H. G. Houdlette re-
ported to the authorities that the
cholera, or a plague fully as fatal
as the Asiatic disease, was pre-
vailing in Honolulu when the ship
arrived there on her voyage from
San Francisco. The reports which
he received from shore impelled
him to keep his ship in quaran-
tine and also to quarantine the
dock where his freight and pas
sengers for Honolulu were receiv-
ed and discharged.
The strictest orders were given
that none of the officers or the
crew of the Australia should go
on shore, and these instructions
were obeyed to the letter. Several
passengers who expected to re.
main at Honolulu for a short time
concluded not to 90 on shore and
80 remained on board, arriving in
San Francisco on the 18th. There
was not case Of sickness of any
kind on the Australia during the
passage from Honolulu to this
port.
Quarantine Officer Chalmers
boarded the vessel, which came
to anchor off the Preside, and
made thorough inspection and
muster of the passengers. He
gave the ship clean bill of
health, and the vessel was allow
ed to dock at 4:30 O. clock.
Captain Houdlette in an inter-
view with reporter said that the
Board of Health of Honolulu was
working vigorously and iutelli-
gently to stamp out the plague.
The passengers of the Australia
adopted resolutions thanking
Captain Houdlette and the Other
officers of the Australia for theil
manliness and courage in dock,
ing at Honolulu, landing the n. ails
and properly looking after the in
terests of passengers.
Brigadier Keppel of the Saliva
ton Army said he was convinced
from his own personal knowledge
that the plague was not tru
= Asiatic cholera, but a scourg
brought by the uncleanliness an,
unhealthy condition of tn
natives.
DIR. Milan soule, surgeon of thu
steamer Australia, said: "Non
of the people belonging to tn
ship were permitted to go ashore
; However, over the telephone
spoke with a number of the physi
clans in Honolulu, and every on
of them questioned that the cpl
demic was cholera. They wer
all Inclined to think it was no
cholera at all.
"Dr. McKibbin, who for man,
years Was in the English army il
India and is one of the most pro-
minent physicians in the islands
came alongside just before W,
sailed and | had a talk with hin
there. He said emphatically tina
the sickness was not cholera. o
those first three deaths of Chimes,
from the Belgic, he said. two were
OF old opium fiends who had beer
deprived of the drug, and it ap-
peared from the symptoms tina
that was the cause OF their deaths
With one exception the Other
} deaths were of natives. They had
he believed, been eating raw fish
crabs and such things, and haG
violent attacks of diarrhea from
that and not from cholera. AS tc
the single white man who died
the sailor on the Bennington, he
said that he mad been working on
the dynamos several hours, and
when overheated plunged in the
water and died in two hours. He
saw no pronounced sign of cholera
in any case"
At meeting of the Board of
Health of San Francisco, on the
2Sth ult. John D. Spreckels in
CURED as to how long the steam
ers would be detained in quaran-
tine. He was told that they
would not be unnecessarily de.