The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-23

Nanko Temple. The case is declared
as Enthusiastically plague.
The second child, II years of age,
affected by plague at Fukiai-mura.
succumbed on Friday. This makes Il
cases Of undoubted plague since the
first outbreak Of the disease, all the
patients but one having died.
The case at No. 119 in the former
settlement has been finally declared
not TO be plague. One child was suf-
fering from diphtheria and the o her
from a form of tuberculous disease
Both have now been discharged from
hospital
Since plague broke out at Higashi
Shiriike, Hyogo, Mr.. Narutaki has is
sued a notice that the rats caught or
killed in the district west Of the Nina
togawa will be purchased at the same
rate as the animals obtained in places
east of the river.
Thirty-seven of the policemen sum-
moned from the police stations in the
rural districts to assist the Kobe police
in the operation Of stamping out the
plague, were allowed to return TO their
respective stations on the 30th ult. On
the previous night Mr.. MisaKi, Super
intendent of the Kobe Police Station,
who is the head of the Police Epidemic
Inspection Committee, called together
all the extra men and thanked them
for the services they had rendered and
the way they had worked day and
night since the outbreak Mr.. Misaki
added that the disease was not yet to-
tally suppressed, but as their services
were badly wanted in their respective
districts, and their superiors had re-
peatedly pressed for their return he
felt he could keep them no longer
The officials were then paid their
travelling expenses and an extra al
Iowance for their services.
Another case of plague is reported at
Osaka. When news was received of the
death On board the steamer of the ser
vantmaid of the house at Minami Ho-
rie, Osaka, on her way to Wakayama,
the authorities Immediately started the
disinfection of the house of her en-
ployer and isolated 73 houses adjoin-
ing. with 2S3 inhabitants. 1t was then
found that boy, aged Il, an employe
in the same house. also showed sus-
picious symptoms. He was Immediate
ly removed to the Infectious Diseases
Hospital, when upon examination of
his blood. the case was declared to be
Observation-Disclosures
The Minister for Home Affairs is
sued an instruction on Friday to the
Governors of various prefectures and
the port epidemic inspection offices, or
dering them to enforce more string
emily the medical inspection on vessels
arriving.
Monday, Decem Der 4th.
We learn that one of the operatives
in the Takao Iron Works. kano-cho
5-chome (near the railway line as it
leaves Kobe eastward) was attacked
on Saturday morning with suspicious
symptoms. The patient is a young
man seventeen years of age. DIR. va
mamoto was called to attend him, and
reported the case, which upon examin-
alton was declared to be genuine
plague. 1t is stated that the man had
some friends in the isolated district at
Ono. and about the 25th of last month
eluded the police and paid them
visit. The Takao Iron Works have
been isolated, together with the resi-
dence of the proprietor Six houses in
ouinOy ydilidtSuOIf, l-CIIOUlc, WIIU
inmates (the neighborhood in which
the patient lived), have been isolated,
and the patient removed to the In
fectious Diseases Hospital.
The interference with trade caused
by the outbreak Of plague is likely to
prove very serious. This is the season
when the drapers expect to do good
trade in supplying clothing for the
New Year, but SO far business has
proved very unsatisfactory. Usually
the streets are crowded with people up
to a late hour, and the various stores
are busy with customers, out now it is
not uncommon to find the shops clos
ed as early as nine o'clock, while after
ten the streets are deserted. The rail-
way traffic is also suffering severely,
trains proceeding to Osaka being al
most empty. Should cases of plague
continue to occur it is probable that
the revival i'm trade that has lately
taken place will receive a severe check
at any rate in Kobe.
The authorities continue to do all in
their power to stamp out the epidemic,
but judgin from the case of the two
children of the late Hirai Matakichi,
the isolation of the infecte portions is
not continued for a sufficient length of
time. 1t will be remembered that Hi
raj, who lived at No. 1882, Isobe-dori,
Go-chome. Fukiai, die1 from the
plague on the 18th ult., and a few days
after the quarters had been released
from isolation the two children were
seized with the disease and subse- |
quently died. The authorities have |
now decided to isolate all the families |
residing in the block of houses in ques- |
tion-nine in all, and all the people in |
these houses were sent to the Infecti- |
Gus Diseases Hospital at KasuganO for |
isolation.
A. sad story is related in a contem |
Dorary of the unfortunate family of |
Hirai. The house consisted Of only |
one small room Of about five mats. |
The deceased left an old mother, aged |
rs. a wife, aged SO, a son, aged ), and |
Continued on Page p