The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-08-21
TWO MORE SUSPECTS.
a CASE on SuUANu AvrNuE AND
ONE ~ KAKAAKO.
Roth Native Men both Came Prom Iwi
lei No sickness IN Quarantine
The situation.
THE SITUATION.

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Suspicious case in a small hous
in banana plantation on Nuuan
avenue, between Vineyard an
Kukui streets. Aged native mar
Suspicious case in "Magoou
VILE" Kakaako. Middle age
native man.
First man went TO Nuuanu ave
nue from Iwilei this morning.
Second man lived at Iwilei
Taken i'll while attending on bust
ness in Kawaiahao cemetery.
Both cases quarantined.
Suspected lwilei locality still il
quarantine.
No new cases at Iwilei.
Woman described as second sus
picious case at Iwilei, aged 10, re
covering.
No further suspicious cases, nc
deaths at quarantine station. AL
well there.
1t ia not yet settled that the dis
ease is the true Asiatic cholera
Health Board and physicians ant
agents very watchful. Belief cx
pressed by some that the disease /.
Of choleric species. Positive as
surances that it will not become
v,rulent or epidemic. If the rea'
article, it has had ample time tc
develop and rage, both at the
Island and ashore, but has not
done SO.
Theory that the sicknesses are
due to some sanitary or food con.
tagion local to Iwilei, advanced
and we'll sustained.
People generally taking the af.
fair very coolly. All urged to
exercise care in eating, drinking,
ventilation and drainage.
At 1880 a call is issued for all
the physicians of the city to meet
with the Board of Health at a
o'clock this day.
KAKAAKo CASE.
A native woman named Akahi
aged twenty years, died in Iwilei
yesterday afternoon in childbirth.
The woman had been ailing some
time from fever and toward the lat.
ter end was out of her mind. She
was unattended by any doctor. The
husband went to Kawaiahao church
cemetery TO make arrangements for
the grave. While there he was
taken suddenly ill and was removed
to the house of a friend at Magoon.
vile, suffering from dysentery
Health Agent Reynolds visited the
place and had the house quarau
tined.
IN IwILEI.
DR.. Myers and Health Agent
Reynolds made thorough inspec
ton Of every house in Iwilei this
morning and only one case of sick
ness was found. The case is al
ordinary one.
Nearly all the people who at.
tended the Sunday luau at Iwilei
have been found and placed in
quarantine at that place. 1t has
been reported, and with consider
able color of truth, that some
Iwilei natives recently had a feas,
from cuts from the carcass of a
horse taken to that locality. The
water at Iwilei is not bad but part
of the suburb is low, marshy and
dirty.
SICK PRISONER.
A Chinese prisoner working in a
gang in Palama was very i'll this
morning, but is now all right
again. He had fits, the result Of
having his supply of opium cut off.
His sickness was reported up town
directly as cholera. DR.. Cooper
treated the man and kills the
cholera rumor. DR.. Cooper also
made a close inspection Of
Oahu prison and inmates and finds
place and occupants healthy.
A gang of prisoners that had been
working in Iwilei has been sent
elsewhere.
DR.. Herbert is exercising the ut.
most watchfulness at the insane
asylum. There are no unusua
cases either there or at the hospital
The city prison has very few in
mates and all of these are in excel
lent health.
QUARANTINE.
w. o. Smith says at noon tina
for the present no passenger de
partures to the other islands will b.
permitted. Until tomorrow tn
Board will not undertake to max,
a decision as to persons desiring t.
leave the country on the Monowai
The ships people may make sum
mary ruling OH that themselves
They will not care to be quaran
tined outside of San Francisco ant
this is possibility.
NOTES.
As early as 6 o'clock this morn
ing it was reported that there ha'
been seven deaths in Iwilei. Thi
was very promptly denied.
With absolutely no sickness a
the quarantine station today, i
was gravely mouthed that laborer
were dying there by the dozen
and that wagonloads Of coffin!
were being taken over.
The rumor that Cy Edison, {
guard, had died in quarantine, wa
of piece with the messages friends
sent to Tommy Lucas, telling hin
that there were numberless cases il
town.
DIR. Myers, who is directing thu
quarantine, was through an epidem
ic of cholera in Georgia, U. S. A.
DIR. Murray saw cholera in Paris
Chester A. Doyle has seei
cholera in Japan. He tells in par
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