The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-07-12
PLAGUE IS BAD
FFightful Fatality Of the OFisHt'S
Disease.
THE HONG KONG REPORT
But rev SurvIve-Japan Free of IL
So Far London Lancet on
| Plague I'm india.

The Foreign Office did not receive
any official reports by the America
Maru regarding the plague conditions
in Hongkong. BY the steamers bill of
health, however, it is learned that dur
ing the two weeks previous to sailing
there had been 1SS deaths out of 1S9
cases reported. There were undoubt-
edly others, which would swell that
number as the Chinese doctors treat
many cases and fail to report. So far
as known the plague has not yet OBJ
tanned a foothold in Japan.
The London Lancet says OF the
plague in India:
Between January and February,
| 30,360 deaths from the plague were re-
corded in Calcutta. Doubtless the num-
ber was much greater, for the natives
hide all cases as long as possible. The
disease is not as virulent as in Bonn
bay, where il often acts fatally within
a few hours; but the natives refuse
European aid, and no case of recovery
| is known. The English medical men
regard with envy the effective. If some
what brutal, manner in which the Am
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this is impossible, as there is no room
in the native quarters. Everywhere
there are little puddles of water,
amidst the most filthy surroundings,
and this water is used by the natives.
1t is worse than the water of the river.
| The city has good supply of well fit
cred water, but the natives will not use
| it. Persons about to leave Calcutta
for the interior are examined as to- the
state of their health. but il is impos-
sible to carry out the regulations
strictly, and many towns have been
infected.
In Bombay the plague is worse than
ever. There are about $50 deaths
day from the plague, sometimes 220O
a week. The people who regard Bonn
bay as a doomed city may not be far
from wrong. Past experience shows
that the epidemic recedes for a few
weeks during the hottest season, but
only to reappear when cooler weather
sets in. In the interior of the penin-
sula the mortality from plague is also
very high in many places.
Under the heading "The Pest the
Yokohama Mail of July 1st says:
There is only too much reason 10
fear that Japan will not be able to
avert an invasion of the pest. The
| case of the America Maru, indeed.
does not seem to be as bad as was at
| first anticipated. Two patients sus-
| pected of having been attacked by the
| terrible disease, have been found to
| be suffering from very ordinary kinds
OF maladies. But that good news is
| more than counterbalanced by intelli-
| gence that a pest patient has been dis
| covered in the City of Peking, at Ma
| gasaki, where she made her usual call
| on the 26th inst, en- route from Hong
| kong, and where she is now detained.
| The Taichiu Maru, from Formosa, Is
| in similar trouble. On her way from
| Kelung she entered Fukuoka, and the
medical inspectors found n case OF
| pest among the steerage passengers
| (Chinese) The ship has on board Il
number of time-expired soldiers from
| Formosa, so that her detention under
such circumstances is a serious mat
| ter.
The total number of cases of pest
| this year in Formosa was 1868, and
| 17SS ended fatally. 1t is not stated
how many Japanese were among the
sufferers, but they were only excep-
| tional. The plague avoids Europeans
and Americans almost entirely, and in
| the comparatively rare cases where il
| attacks Japanese, seldom has fatal re-
| suits.