The herald., 1895-09-22
Stricter Quarantine Placed On
All Vessels
HE PLAGUE IN HONOLULU
Cholera Victims Lying Dead IN the
Streets Of Pekin
Moving Down the Filthy MonsoIians ~ :
the Hundreds-Only q Pew Por.
eigners Die

Associated Press specisl Wire
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 21.-At :
meeting OF the board Of health toiay
resolution was adopted placing astrict
quarantine on all vessels from infected
ports and an order was made tnat al
steam vessels from such ports should be
sterilized and fumigated with steam from
the boilers.
DR.. Godfrey OF the government quarans
tine station made a statement regarding
cholera at the Hawaiian islands and the
danger of cuntagion at this city. He
stated that three deaths on the steamer
Belgic from the Orient had resulted from
cholera and not from pneumonia as first
stated. The three bodies of the Belgio
victims were buried on the shore at
Honolulu in graves eighteen inches
deep. The wash OF the tides carried the
remains out to sea where they were
devoured by crabs. A woman ate crab
caught near by and died from cholera in
twenty-four hours. subsequently the
Belgic came here and landed one huns
dred Chinese who had been in the steer
age with the three men who died. These
steerage passengers are now at various
DYING BY HUNDREDS.
William e. Curtis, who is the Washing.
ton correspondent CT the Chicago Record,
was passenger on the steamer Gaelic,
which arrived from the Orient yesterday.
He went TO Japan in May last to study
the commercial and industrial prospecta
accorded Amori cans in that country and
lately has been in China, which he de-
scribed Us the pest breeding center of the
universe.
portions in China" said Mr.. Curtis.
Chinese are dying by the thousands.
l passed throueh the streets of Pekin.
Shanghai a3d Tien Ts'n and saw cholera
victims dead and dying on, every hand.
1t is no uncommon sight to see the dead
streets In one block and in the next .
lot Of Chinese goreing Themselves with
raw cIcum bers and melons. The cholera
is all attributable to the filthy habits OF
the Chinese and the weather. The sum-
mer was quite cool until August. Then
a spell of excessively bot weather came
on and with it the cholera.
Sin Pekin they have a plan of issuing
permits for the removal of bodies outside
the city walls. AS is probably well
known, no bodiers are inferred within
the walls. To secure permission for the
TcHONdl Vi tuo TtiuulDS OI u ueCeHo0Q
mortal outside the walls of the city a cash
is dropped in box. A cash is small
brass coin worth one-twentieth of cent.
At night the cash receptacle is full.
1t contains from 1000 to 5000 pieces Of
coin. and when it is considered that
nearly all of these deaths result from
cholera, the enormous extent of tho dis
ease can readily be judged. The disease 10
as bad at Shanghai and Tien Tsin, and
is also moving down Chinese by the
hundred in other parts of the injected
country"
Mr.. Uurtis said that the cholera is con-
fined almost exclusively to the native
Chinese. In Pekin, where very few for
eigRers reside, he had heard of no deaths
among the white population. In Tien
Tsin only one death among the foreign
population had been reported up to the
hour ne left China. In Shsng hal, where
the cholera is raging at an awful rate,
the fatalities among The foreigners have
been much greater. Mr.. Curtis said he
had been advised of eighteen deaths.