San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-09-13

steamer Australia from Honolulu
brings the following advices to the
Associated Press:
HONOLULU, Sept. 5.-Forty-one
cases of cholera have been reported
to date with twenty-five deaths.
The disease attacks only the ma
tives. Every effort is being made
to stamp it out. No island steam
ers are allowed to leave port with
out first remaining in quarantine
for five days.
Passengers must undergo the
same ordeal. The Australia leaves
today for San Francisco with cabin
passengers only. The cholera, ac-
cording to the general theory, was
brought to Honolulu by the steam
err Belgic, which arrived on August
9th with $50 Chinese immigrants
on board. The vessel had clean
bill of health, but following the
custom, the Chinese were placed in
quarantine.
On August Is twas learned that
three of the immigrants had died,
two from bowel complaint and the
other from exhaustion. AS soon as
it was publicly announced that a
death had occurred at the quaran-
tine station, people became
alarmed and declared that Asiatic
cholera had broken out among the
Chinese immigrants. Physicians
made a careful examination of the
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not cholera. More cases broke out
soon, however, and this intensified
the alarm. By this time the dis
ease was declared to be genuine
| Asiatic cholera. 1t was decided to
inaugurate a system of house to
house inspection and other precau-
tionary measures were adopted to
insure, if possible, the security of
| the community. No cases devel-
oped among the Chinese at the
quarantine station after August l6
and the immigrants have been
since released.
Up to August "a five cases of
cholera had developed at Honolu-
lu, with four deaths. On the even
ing of the 24th another case was
reported; for five days there were
no cases reported and the people
became easier, believing that the
disease had been stamped out.
But it was only respite. On the
Both nine cases were reported, five
of which proved fatal. One of the
cases was a seaman on the Ben
nington, named w. HI. Goedel. He
was taken ill while on board the
vessel and lived but short time.
He had bathed in the harbor and
it is thought contracted the disease
in this manner. On the following
two days four cases were reported;
on the third seven cases devel-
oped.
With the exception of the Ben
nington sailor the scourge has at
tackled only natives. The chief
difficulty in dealing with the chole-
ra here is the ignorance and un-
clean habits of the natives and
Chinese. The natives, of course,
have no conception of the nature
| of the disease, it's origin or the
proper treatment of it. In this, as
| in all other respects, they are
children and must be treated ac-
cordingly.
The physicians are gradually To-
eating the germ centers, but new
cases turn up in new quarters, and
there has not been a sufficient
number of facts to enable any safe
generalization to be made.
The council of state ZELDA meet
ing yesterday afternoon and even
ing, and after appropriating $40, 600
for expenses incurred by the board
of health, the matter of pardoning
political prisoners came up for con-
sideration. The executive recon-
mended that Carl Widemann, the
four Laird boys. Junius Kaao, Joe.
Widdlefield and thirty-nine others
be pardoned. The council adopted
the recommendation.
At the same meeting the eX-
queen was pardoned also and the
others will be liberated as soon
as the pardons are made out.
Bowler, Richard, Walker, Seward,
Wilcox and the other long term
prisoners will remain in jail. The
government win allow exiles to re-
turn to the country, with the ex-'
ception of the Ashford brothers,
now in San Francisco.