The herald., 1898-11-04
HAWAIIAN HOSPITALS
OFFER ANOTHER CASE FOR
INVESTIGATION
TYPHOID S0WN BROADCAST
Trained Nurses From the City Are
Expected to Keep the Death
Rate Low
Associated Press Special Wire


VICTORIA, B. c., Nov. 3.-Honolulu ad-
here today, are to the effect that work
has been stopped at Camp Mckinley.
The entire camp will be moved to Moana-
lulu tract, which General Merriam has
recommended as site for permanent post.
Typhoid fever was the cause of the aban-
Otis will remain there until the arrival OF
the transport Arizona from Manila.
Typhoid fever was sown broadcast during
the time the ordinary rules of sanitation
were disregarded in the military camps.
| There are said to be fifty cases, but trained
nurses have been added to the force at the
hospital, from the city, and it is believed that
the death rate will be very small Malaria
| is on the decrease.
! When the Aorangi left there were 1853 pa
tients in the hospital, fifty showing typhoid
symptoms. General King says the pa
tients at the hospital will be moved as
quickly as possible to some place near the
| hills, where it is dryer and cooler. He says
the hospital should never have been located
| where it is.
General King will sail with the troops at
Camp Otis on the Arizona for Manila.
| The New Workers and engineers will re-
main at Honolulu indefinitely for garrison
duty. Five deaths from typhoid fever oc-
| CURED during the week previous to the sail
ing of the Aorangi The names of the dead
are:
CHARLES II. THOMPSON, New York
''flHii1li. THOMAS BEAVER, Eighteenth infantry.
JULfUs N. MILLER, Company B, Ne
braska volunteers.
D. ". DAWSON, Company +, Colorado
recruits.
Brigader General King had quite a con-
,,-,t Il. t. L.
Judge, while sentencing some privates for
disorderly conduct, is reported to have said
that if there was any surety of the men being
punished by court-martal he would let them
oil easy, but on previous occasion when
men made a disturbance the commanding
officer could not be found, but was sick in
bed although the same night he gave a big
dinner, party and the men were white
washed. General King wrote to Wilcox
| asking him If he used that language, and the
judge replied that the report was correct.
General King then asked for an apology,
which the court declined to give, and there
the matter rests for the present
1t is stated that new bank will commence
business in Honolulu the first of the year,
with a capital of SS0,000, with power to in
crease it to S3,000,000. Part of the capital
is local 1t will not be national bank, but
organized under the laws of Hawaii.
Police Marshal Brown leaves Honolulu on
principal coast cities, with view of getting
in closer touch with them, annexation hav-
ing made some changes desirable.
The steamer Columbia has been released
on bonds She was to sail for Seattle the
day after the Aorangi
The election at Camp Otis was to take
place one week after the Aorangi left SEN
ator Steele had left the necessary blanks,
and gone on to Manila for the same purpose.
The transport Senator arrived the day be-
fore the Aorangi sailed. She will coal at
Honolulu and proceed to Manila. The voy-
age was uneventful, but the men complain of
poor food and crowded quarters.
On the night of the 22nd three hundred
men were attacked with violent nausea.
the result of eating tainted food. All re-
covered.
The Live Electric Wire
VICTORIA, B. c., Nov 3-Honolulu ad-
vices received today tell of the electrocu-
tion of Thomas Hannah of San Francisco.