New-York tribune., 1895-09-14
HONOLULU AN INFECTED POhI
ALL CHURCHES ORDERED CLOSED IN TIL
STRICKEN CITY.
cry or- THE BENNrNGToN's MEN u.L-EvERY Eff
FORT MADE TO SHUT OUT CHOLERA fhoM
THE PACIFIC COAST PORTS-THt

SIX OF THE BENNINGToN's MEN IIL-EvERf hr-
FORT MADE TO SHUT OUT CHOLERA FROM
THE PACIFIC COAST PoRTs-THE
DISEASE STILL RIFE IN JAPAN
San Francisco Sept 13.-The Board OF Heaith
this morning declared Honolulu an injected poi :
and ordered that rigid quarantine be ooserVeu'
C,orrespondence Of the United Press from Homo
lulu SAYS: Owing 10 the cholera epidemic al 'ne
churches were ordered to be closed september l.
The Anglican Bishop Willis denounced the oruei
as the most iniquitous and outrageous aouse o'
power since Papal interdiots. The next uas '"e
President OF the Board Of Health made s'a'e-
ment of the reacons for the action of the boafu
and the doctors. saying:
II was for the protection OF the native "a ti.
their fingers in the same container Of hoiy water;
Some might do this who were injected inida OF bosa m
meeting acquaintances frequently embrace rhIa mna
IS often done when epers are being sen, os a"ns d
Among the first cases Of cholera which zen pes at
tackled IN the Roman Catholic Church Ssne Syneay 70
August II. There much hesitation IN Eot"h y, ~
prohibit the church services, but i seemed .ns'
should be done for the sake Of the ana that It
would not be wise to discriminate.
An important letter appears this morning IN
THE Advertiser from Mrs. Nakuina. very
able haf-white lady. high authority on ma
waiian customs She asserts that crabs feast on
buried corpses and were unquestionaby the
medium Of transmitting Infection to 1wiei. She
also warns against danger from Kahuna prac-
tces causing infection. and against fouEhB Oh
water sources by natives hiding through terror
In the heads of the valleys.
Victor Blue, who Is ensign on board the l.
S. s. Bennington, now stationed at Honolulu, In
n haar 1atp of
six men were down with the disease on board
the Bennington and that one sailor had died
The other men were doing WELL but the snip S
surgeon feared that tho epidemic had scarcely
begun He had made careful miscroscopical
examination and pronounced IL to be virulent
type Of Asatic cholera
Washington. Sept lS.-The Marine Hospital
Service has official information of the progress OF
the cholera in Japan 1,076 cases and ~ deaths
at Osaka and 246 cases and 1913 deaths at Hiogo
being recorded
The officials say that the quarantine service
on the Pacific coast is in good conditlon; Az . San
Francisco there is a complete quarantine pant
belonging to the Marine Hospital service with 9
medical officer In command fitted up with uie
most recent appliances for disiniectioh. ~ ~
Gray's Harbor Wash, a sanitary inspector mas
been appointed by the service. At Astoria me
inspection is done by State Health ofncer at ,he
mouth of the Columbia River, and also al EihpTe
CITY, ore. Al Euithdi Odi., tHclN
pointed n sanitary inspector Of the Marine Hos
pita Service.
4 special regulation has been issued regarding
the disinfection OF all baggage from ports In the
Orient, including Hawaii. The United states
Consul at Yokohama has physician TO assist III
the inspection Of vessels. With regard to immi.
grants coming into the United States by way OF
British Columbia on British vessels. inquiry was
made some days ago of the chief quarantine ON
Ger OF Canada what special precautions were
being taken in British Columbia. He replied that
spe cial action fcrestalled by the action oil
the steamship companies who since July last
on account Of threatened detention of vessels
had refused to bring any Japanese immigrants