The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-08-22

out fishing around Quarantine Isl
and on Tuesday. On the following
day she suffered from purging. Sh,
did not vomit but her voice wa.
husky, and she had cramps in tn,
legs. The woman is forty-on,
years Of age.
CASE OF LoNo.
DR.. Myer added that Lono, til,
man in the banana ranch on Nuu
anu street, was taken i'll at
O'Clock in the morning, with purg
ing, temperature being over GO
The man had been staying up thre,
days with a relative in Iwilei wi,
gave birth to a child.
TWO DEATHS.
The man Lono died at 8 O'Clock
last evening with quite the appear
ance of cholera in his case.
The woman in Iwilei, heretofore
described as the second case, and
very old and feeble, died about 7:3o
last evening. Her illness had the
features OF Lono's and the first
woman's.
Both bodies were buried at Ma
kiki, which will be the cemetery
for all suspicious cases.
PRECAUTIONS TAKEN.
DR.. Mct1rew thought it neces-
sary that all precautions be taken
to stop the spread of this disease.
He could not believe that this cpl
demic was Asiatic cholera. He
felt it necessary to have the streets
and highways cleaned of all gar
bage and rubbish.
DR.. Day explained that the cloth
ing and everything belonging to
those who had died on Quarantine
Island had been burned, and the
place in which they had lived thor
disinfected. The doctor
had requested DR.. Surmann to ex-
anime the specimen of discharges
taken from those afflicted with this
disease, because DIR. Surmann had
seen a great deal of cholera in Ger
many.
ANALYSIS.
DR.. Surmann stated that he had
complied with DR.. Days request,
but would not advance any opin-
ion. 1t was impossible, the doctor
said, to form an opinion from one
examination. 1t required from six
to dozen cases.
TREAT IT AS CHOLERA.
DR.. Stangenwald said all these
cases should be treated as cholera,
until a definite conclusion can be
arrived at. In the meantime he
advocated the utmost care to keep
the disease from spreading.
DR.. McKibbin was unable to give
an opinion, but he felt the same as
the others relative to preventive
measures.
QUARANTINE.
DR.. Cooper recommended that
further examinations be made. He
would also recommend that all per-
sons contracting this disease be re-
moved to the quarantine station.
DR.. Herbert favored the idea, but
he would add that an ambulance
be built for removing sick people.
In answer to questions Agent
Reynolds stated there were 525
immigrants on Quarantine Island,
and sick people from the city could
be kept on the farther side of the
island.
DR.. Howard did not favor the re-
moving of all the people in house
because one person was sick. 1t
would subject the remainder of the
family to infection.
DIR. Herbert thought that the best
thing to do would be to remove the
sick person and quarantine the
others in the house and disinfect the
same.
OFFICIAL STASEMENT.
President Smith said that some
official statement should be issued
by the Board of Health as the
Monowai was dne tomorrow.
DR.. Day suggested that the sim
pie statement that there were four
cases and one death from cholerine
or cholera morbus in the city would
be sufficient.
DR.. Wood stated that he had
been told that the American Con-
sui could declare this an infected
port, if in his opinion the disease
was here.
President Smith said Collector
General Castle had just called for
information as to whether a clean
bill of health be given the steamer
or not.
The Chairman stated that in ad-
dition to those who have died in
quarantine there had been ten cases
altogether.
The following official statement
from the Board will be dispatched
to the United States through U. S.
Consul General Mills:
HONOLULU, H. l., Aug. 81, '95.
Official Statement of the Hawaiian
Board of Health to the United
States Consul General Ellis Mills
The steamer Belgic arrived at thi:
port on August 9th, eleven ant
one-half days from Yokohama
having on board for this port 53S
Chinese immigrants. She reported
three deaths on the voyage, giving
as causes of death, pneumonia il
one case and heart disease in tw'
cases.
The Chinese were landed il
quarantine, one man being sicl
with gastro-intestinal disturbance
at the time. He died the day afte
being landed. Two other cases o
gastro-intestinal disturbance devel
oped the day the first case died
OF these one recovered, and tn
other, an old man, died Of exhaustion
four DAVIS later One Young China