The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-27

The above are the contents of a let
ter which President Cooper addressed
10 the Minister of Foreign Affairs and
To all the foreign Consuls in Honolulu
yesterday afternoon. DR.. Carmichael
embodied the letter in his official re-
ports to San Francisco and Washing
ton, in which he declared Honolulu an
infected port. Consul General Hay
wood also notified the State Depart
ment at Washington.
/ From now on until the quarantine is
again raised the shipping will be care
/ fully watched by the United States
authorities, and vessels cannot clear
with a clean bill of health The Aus
/ tralia, which left for San Francisco
yesterday. carried clearance papers
which will place her in quarantine at
/ her destination. Pursuant TO the or
/ ders of the Health Board, all the Island
steamers yesterday moved away from
the wharves TO anchorage and passen-
gers and freight were lightered out TO
them after n careful inspection.
One or two cases OF death were inves-
tigated by the Health Department yes
terday. One of these was a SDaniard
from Punchbowl street near Queen. An
autopsy revealed the fact that the man
died OF brain trouble and had no symp-
toms of the plague.
Another case was reported by the
agents of the Board of Health, this
time n Chinaman 81 years DID, who
was struggled out of Chinatown and
sent to the Chinese hospital at Palama
Agent Johnson Of the Board got wind
OF the removal and ACCOMPANIED DR..
Scaparone to investigate the patients
illness. DR.. Ii, a Chinese physician.
also went out and made a careful eX-
amination of the old mans condition
The patients temperature registered
1882 and his pulse 120. He was I'M
conscious and only when the right
groin. which was badly swollen, was
pressed, did a sound escape him. DR..
Scaparone. who has been rather skep-
teal in pronouncing suspicious cases
as plague cases. stated his belief that
the old man had plague symptoms. DR.
Ii also expressed a similar opinion
basing his statement on cases he has
observed in Hongkong. This is anoth-
er case which has baffled the previous
search of the inspectors for sickness in
Chinatown.
This state of affairs, where sick Chi
nese were carefully concealed in China
town and then smuggled to some ont
lying district. as in the case of the Chi
nese who died yesterday at Pawaa. led
President Cooper to ask the Chinese
Consul. Vice Consul and representative
Chinese merchants of the city to have
conference with him at $50 yester-
day afternoon. At the hour appointed
the two officials and about score OF /
Chinese merchants came 10 the Board
OF Health Office to listen to President
Cooper. VIM. Crawford acted as inter-
prefer.
It was an important meeting in that |
many of the Chinese have lately be-
come eXasperated at the condition of
affairs under quarantine restrictions
little thinking that in some instances /,
their own action in concealing the sick |
has been responsible, and they have |
also stated that the Board of Health |
had Disseminated against the Chinese |
in the matter Of cremations and autOp
sizes as against the Japanese, and evil .
IDENTIFY have been greatly wrought up /
over il.