The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-19
PERHAPS A VICTIM
Ethel johnson, a High School
Girl, Stricken OoVn.
CASE OCCURRED AT IWILEI
Possibility That il May Turn Out
to be Another Mrs. Maria
False Alarm
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"A suspicious case of alleged plague
was reported to the Board of Health
4 Office at 6:30 last evening from Iwilef.
ADoctor Hoffman, and his assistants
immediately drove out and located it
stands next to the Soap factory. The
patient was Ethel Johnson, a white
High School girl, thirteen or fourteen
years old. She had been i'll only since
moon yesterday Upon examination her
temperature was found to be 1O612.
She was delirious and had been suffer-
ing from pain in the right groin. This
part Of her body was swollen. Doctor
Hoffman, went back to the health office
and reported his findings to Minister
Cooper, saying that he considered it a
sure case of plague. A police squad
was sent out to guard the premises.
and Doctor Hoffman,, accompanied by
Doctors Day, Scaparone and Garvin,
and an Advertiser reporter, again went
to Iwilei arriving there at 7:30.
Another careful examination of the
DLt1SuC was 1lcldC. etiAu lIiC lIiAi p1A otaiS =
again taken 1t was 1852. After a
consultation the physicians decided to
make their report to Minister Cooper
read "A Highly Suspicious Case" and
to recommend the withdrawal of the
quarantine order which was to have
gone into effect at noon today. They
did not expect the Johnson girl to live
until this morning, stating that she
has all the symptoms of a bubonic
plague patient,
The history of her sickness only
dates back to Sunday afternoon. She
had gone with a girl companion to a
Chinese store near the railroad depot
and bought some candy. During the
evening she complained of not feeling
WELL Yesterday morning while pre-
pairing breakfast, she asked her mother
to let one of the little ones assist her as
she was ILL., After breakfast and the
housework were done she lay down |
and during the afternoon complained |
of pain in the right groin. She became
feverish, and then delirious. When |
Doctor Hoffman, first examined the |
right groin, the swelling was not large. |
When the four doctors made the ex- |
tnC iiou bSSoAiS |
greater.
The girl attended the High School |
until last Tuesday when it was closed |
by order of Minister Mott-Smith, and |
since then she has not been in Homo |
lulu, and the nearest she has been to |
the quarantined district was on Sunday |
when she visited the Chinese store.
One very significant fact in regard |
to the disease appearing at IWilei, is
that since the cleansing of Chinatown
began, the odorless excavator has been
driven on the Iwilei road, night and
day, directly past the Johnson house,
and thence down to the shore where
the foul refuse has been dumped into
shallow water. The people there say
that the wind brings all odors back
from the shore. This and the garbage
heaps at Iwilei, which have already
been written up as, menace to the
health of the Iwilei population, may
have brought on the young girls sick
ness.
A military guard was sent out late
in the evening, upon the request OF
Minister Cooper, to relieve the police
md will maintain quarantine there un-
ii the physicians thoroughly diagnose
her case.
Another case of sickness was report
ID from Emma street, but up to late
1our last night nothing was learned
If it. The reports were sufficient toi
cause Minister Cooper to revoke thea
,rder of the Board of Health made yes
erdav afternoon, and the quarantinea
n the city and on the vessels in the#I
larbor will be enforced as strictly ast
ever. IL
There are many rum0rs af1oat Whicln I
re difficult to run down that the girl ;
vas unfortunate enough to come in |
Ontact with malady resembling bu- :
,onic plague and which may be ac-
uired in a variety OF ways. The pos
ibility, though not necessarily reflect {