The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-03-16
TWOSUSPECTS
One Case Probably the
Plague.
All Jan Succumbs 10 the Disease
Board Of Health Re-
trenches.

There were Two suspicious cases ol
sickness In Honolulu yesterday. from
The two ends Of the city one, which
will in all probability prove to be the
plague appeared IN Iwilei, the other.
not so suspicious. cropped up In Wal
kiki.
The case to which the most impor-
lance Is attached by the authorities II
Seu Kan, aged 2S. a Chinaman. Seu
Kan came from the stables in lwilei
opposite the stables on the road lead
ing to the slaughter house from which
All Jan, the plague victim, was taken.
Since Sunday morning he had been
quarantined at battery camp. Yester-
day morning he was sent out of battery
camp with $50 other people and taken
to Kalihi camp by Board of Health
Officer a. A. Fox 1t was discovered at
Kalihi that Seu Kan probably had the
plague and he was taken Immediately
to the pest house.
DR.. Wood is not ready to say GER
tainly that Seu Kan is plague pa
tent, but confines himself to the state
ment that the case is very suspicious
one. "Seu Kan has the Indications
first noticeable in Il case of plague
said the doctor in answer TO the re-
porter's question, but his sickness is
not yet far enough developed for me to
say definitely that it is the plague. 1t
was first reported to me that Seu KAN
was from the Chinese stables recently
burned on account of All Jan who died
today of plague, having lived there.
Subsequent reports however confirm a
more authoritative statement to the
effec THAT Seu Kan came from the
otner Chinese stables right across the
road from where All Jan had lived on
the Iwilei road. II the latter state
ment is correct, and believe that it ia,
the fate of the other stables on which
decision had been deferred by the
Board, will not be very hard 10 decide"
Yesterdays other suspicious case
was reported at the Board of Health Of
flee by telephone about noon. DR..
the matter. He found a sick Japanese
at the Ocean View house, Waikiki, suf-
fering with high fever and very high
pulse. The case is not at present con-
sidered unusually suspicious although
the Japanese is tDeated as a suspect.
All Jan, the plague patient from the
stables on the makai side Of the Iwilei
road, who has been at the plague hos
pital since Sunday last, died at 1890
p. m. yesterday. A post-mortem ex-
animation was held and the cause of
death determined to be bubonic plague.
The report from the pest house at 2
O'Clock this morning is that Seu Kan
is in critical condition with tempera-
ture registering 104 and pulse 115.
Levy is considerably better; tenn
perature ranging from 9S to 50 and
pulse little lower than heretofore
There was no meeting of the Board of
Health yesterday afternoon owing to
the pressure of other matters which
DR.. Wood found it necessary TO attend
to. The Board will, in all probability,
hold a meeting this afternoon at the
usual time.
Hoffman, Reports on Fumigation
DR.. Hoffman, has handed in the fol-
lowing report on fumigation in the Aa-
la warehouse. As reported in yester-
days Advertiser, fumigation is now
going on in the Aala warehouse and
the owners of the large amount of per-
sonal effects stored in that building are
receiving their belongings as fast as
they are identified and fumigated:
March 13, 1900.
c. b. Wood, Esq, NJ. d.
President of the Board of Health.
Dear Sir: There have been given to
Mr.. ingalls, for testing fumigation in
Aala warehouse on March Z, two tubes
living bacilli cultures, and,
according to his report he placed tube
No. 1852 in the folds of piece of cloth
in part of the room where the fumes
so last, near the door on right hand
side, and placed tube No. 4461 on a
beam opposite door on mauka side,
three and half feet from floor in the
Aala fume room.
Fumigation started at 8 p m. on the
eth instant and the room was opened at
$40 a. m. on March s. The replanting
Of both fumigated tubes showed active
growth of the same bacilli. Fumiga- |
lion a failure.
On March 10, Mr.. ingalls, placed three
Detri dishes charged with culture mura |
living baciili lin small |
luantity) and tube with living cul-
ture, all open, in different places of
The fumigation room. Fumigation |
started on March 10 at 2 p. m, doors
we're opened at 1880 a. m. on March ~.
The petri dishes have been covered
with cloth, the tube has been lying on
he floor with removed plug. On the
'eplanting of these there has not been
my growth up to today.
Respectfully,
DIR. w. HOFFMAN,.
Among other important communica-
Ions received at the health office yes
erday, are the following:
March 10, 1900.