The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-12-29
State and City Health Officials at
San Francisco
Taking Every Pracaution to Prevent the
Disease Coming to California.
All Vessels Arriving in Port From
Infected Districts Will Be De-
tanned in Quarantine Until All
Sossible Danger Is Passed.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. %. = The
news of the breaking out OF the plague
in Honolulu, brought here by the trans
port Centennial, has created some alarm
among the State and city health OIL
Gals, and every precaution is being
taken to prevent possible ADMISSION
of the disease into this city.
The transports Centennial and New
port, which arrived last night, and the
Tartar, which arrived from Manila to-
day, are now at the quarantine station
undergoing fumigation, and will be de-
tanned at Angel Island for some time.
The steamer Gaelic is due here to-
morrow from the Orient via Honolulu,
and will be sent to quarantine and held
there until all possible danger is passed
News from reliable sources from the
Orient states that the disease is prev
alent in China and Japan to an unusual
extent, and the officers at Manila have
taken precaution to prevent the plague
from getting foothold there. News
from Bombay is to the effect that the
plague is rampant in India, and in view
of these conditions the authorities In
this city and at every port on the Pa
cific Coast will take strenuous steps
to prevent the Introduction of the bu-
bonic plague on this coast.
Some physicians claim that the dis
ease is not the black plague. Public
opinion is divided also. Many believe
that if the plague were present in Hon
olulu the inhabitants OF Chinatown
would be carried off by the hundreds.
on account of the filthy condition of
the district. Another interesting phase
of the case is the fact that no Japanese
have been attacked. They live in
large numbers in the quarantined dis
trict.
The Council of State met IN extra
ordinary session on December 18th and
appropriated $4,000 for immediate use
of the Board of Health in combating the
plague. The following regulation, re-
garding inter-island steamers, was
adopted by the Board of Health:
mo steamers will be allowed to leave
the port of Honolulu for any other
port in the islands, except the Island of
Oahu. without first undergoing Guar
antine of seven days. No Chinese or
Japanese freight of any description will
be allowed Shipment
The outside islands nave been noti-
fed of the situation in Honolulu. All
of the districts outside of Honolulu are
in clean condition, and there is lit :
tie danger that the plague will gain a
foothold on che other islands.
Mail adyices to the Associated Press
received late tonight from Honolulu
give additional details of the bubonic
plague which has appeared there, and
indicate that the conditions are not
very alarming. Five deaths have oc-
CURED, one native and four Chinese.
No deaths have, occurred since the 18th,
when the disease first appeared. A
quarantine system for island vessels
was established, and a district prac-
tically coextensive with Chinatown was
put in quarantine. Volunteer inspectors
were called for, and the work of clean
ing this district was at once begun
and is now progressing. The next day
the National Guard was called out, and
has since been doing duty guarding the
quarantined district.
Chinatown, the seat of the trouble, IS
now undergoing a thorough cleaning,
and it is believed that the Scourgc has
been stamped out. 1t is thought that
the germs of the plague were brought
from Kobe. Japan, on the Norwegian
steamer Thyra, which arrived at Hon
olulu on November 18th with iOO
Japanese immigrants.