The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-12-26


raie Is ihs ahimsla shaiacf 'a h.af
esai ui fbe Htrf
Thits aetrH 10 fnt r.UfWan .1w.
uunfd fmm fhH police stations n ihe
fufa hlaffria iH essiH fhe Kobe pI'lDo
ln thn operation nf eamrIne uu thn
uIaruH. Ntfn allowed i1 return fp lhrF
frsrr ilYH stations un tnH an.h u'. un
the prt .WH uIrhf Mr Mafal auHf
Iaiendrn, uf the Kobe Police station
Who BE- iht bead of fho Police Ep.dam.a
inspection Committee called togo. her
afl Ihd extra mrn and thanked them
ur Doe service. they bad rendered and
tha way they bad worked day and
uIe1t since Tho outbreak Mr. MIfah
added that the disease was NOT yct to-
tally suppressed but 8s their services
wore badly wanted ln their rcsper iyH
districts, and their suporiors had ro-
peatedly pressed Tor thcir return Doe
felt De could keep them mo- longer
Tho officials were then paid their
travelling expenses and AN extra gl-
lowance for their services.
Another case of plague Is reported q.
Osaka. When news was received ol the
death on board the steamer of the ser
yanmaid Of the house al Mlnami HO-
rie. Osaka, on her way 10 WakIyama.
tile authorities Immediately started the
dlsinfection Of the house OF her em-
ployer and isolated 73 houses adioln-
ing. with 2S3 Inhabitants. II was then
found that a boy aged II, an employe
in the same house also showed sus-
picious symptoms. He was immediate
~ removed to the Infectious Diseases
Hospital. when upon examination of
his blood, the case was declared to be
undoubtedly plague
The Minister for Home Affairs is
sued an instruction on Friday to the
Governors of various procedures and
the port epidemic inspection offices, or
dering them 10 enforce more string
emily the medical inspection on vessels
arriving
Monday, Decent ber 4th.
We learn that one OF the operatives
in the TakaD Iron Works, kano-cho.
5-chome tnear the railway line as it
leaves Kobe eastward) was attacked
on Saturday morning with suspicious
symptoms. The patient is young
man seventeen years of age. DR.. 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
yisit. The Takao Iron Works have
been isolated, together with the resi-
dence of the proprietor. Six houses in
Shimoyamatedori, 1-chome, with %
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 a 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, Dut 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 thai
the revival in trade tldt has lately
taken place will receive a severe check
at any rate in Kobe.
hf INN To al in,
their power to stamp ont 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 sufficient length of
time. ! will be remembered that Hi
raj, who lived at No. 29S2. Isohe-dori.
Go-chome. Fukiai, dieu from the
plague on the 18th ult,, and 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 We're sent to the lnfecti-
Gus Diseases Hospital at Kasugano for
lSoliIlOu.
\ sad story is related in a contem-
porary 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
76. wife. aged 33, son, aged 5, and
a daughter, aged =, in addition to the
two children who died. Since the
death of the father, on whose earn
ings six others depended, the wife has
had TO support the old mother and
children. During the period of isola-
tion they We're receiving relief from
the City Office, but as the relief has
been Withdrawn since the place was re
leased from quarantine, the difficulties
of the family We're great. They had
not sufficient futon TO cover them all
in the night, and the old mother, the
wife, and four children We're found
sleeping together under only one thin
futon. Since the Two children became
sick, the old woman and the wife had
nowhere TO sleep, and had to sit up