The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-31
Physicians Investigate Death of
a Chinaman.
QUARANTINE TO BE LONG
oRIENTALS NOT so LIKELY TO
RESIST INCUBATION.
Mail Service is Not Interrupted Ex-
cept For Fumigation-Busy Scenes
Are Enacted at the Lines When
the Food Supply is Brought.

san Francisco, May 30.-The city
board of health today held an autopsy
on the body of a Chinaman found last
night in a Chinese undertaker's estab-
lishment. A member of the board
stated that the result of the autopsy
strongly Indicated that the Chinese died
of the bubOnic plague. In order TO
demonstrate fully whether or not it
was case Of plague, cultures were
taken from the glands for the purpose
Of making an animal incubation. DR..
Shrady of New York assisted in the
autopsy
DR.. Kellogg. bacteriologist of the
board of health, was asked if the case
was similar to the nine already re-
ported. He said:
No, it is not In face, we have not
yet had two cases alike, and this last
one is different from any of the former
cases. 1t has not yet been verified, but
all indications point TO the conclusion
that it is another case of plague. We
shall use the same test as in the others,
and after the cultures have sufficiently
developed, will inOculate a number of
animals with the bacillus. That is the
only infalible test"
Quarantine to Be Long.
According to DR.. Williamson, presi-
dent of the board of Realth, the Gordon
around the skirts of Chinatown may
continue for six weeks
Other things being equal" said he,
IN the course Of an interview today,
I'VE might feel justified in raising the
quarantine in six weeks-that is to say,
If the cleanliness of the district is such
as to preclude the possibility of infec-
ton remaining in the various habita-
tons of the Chinese and others living
there
The doctor then referred to the de-
auctions of DR.. Shrady of New York,
whom he described as zone of the most
eminent specialists in the United
States"
DR.. Shrady has not only endorsed
the action of the board of health, but
has stated that every death reported
by the board as having resulted from
plague was accurately reported by the
boards bacterologist-
Some Still Resist.
Or. O'Brien, who has charge Of the
force inspecting the Chinese district.
was asked if any cases of resistance
had been met with by the inspectors
on their rounds.
Only few" said he. 1.-THE doors
- q AicA ilCduEu III some instances. DIT
as a rule the Chinese have offered no
stubborn resistance. They are rather
inclined TO yield to the wishes Of the in
spectOrs and in a few days we expect
that all trouble in this respect will
have passed"
Mail is Fumigated.
The mail service in the Chinese quar-
ter viii not be impaired A fumigating
station has been established and ev-
erything passing out is treated. This
morning there was great activity along
the ropes that surrounded the duaran-
tined district, and the Chinese had to
resort to many devices in order to OBJ
tain their supplies of food AS market
time approached, numerous butcher
wagons and delivery carts from gro
Gerry houses drew up along the line.
and Chinese, laden with pork and other
eatables, were soon engaged in ferry
ing the supplies TO the quarter
The Chinese merchants are preparing
to institute legal proceedings against
the board Of health to compel that body
10 lift the embargo. The Chinese say
they would be willing 10 aid the health
officials if an epidemic existed. bat
knowing that such is not the case. they
refuse to submit to being shut eff from
the outside world without at least some
show of resistance