The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-03-17
ONE CASE o. PLAGUE
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CsOn). Tam Hal CfatherJ and Leong
Shee (nother).
He was removed with the rest OF Us
70 battery camp last Monday. from
which place We were all sent 70 kallhi
camp March 10, when the dOctOT found
him 70 be IN and returned him TO the
hospital at KakaakO. / have known
Seu Kan since he came to this country.
which was about a year ago. He has
been living with me at my room at
the stables OF T. Quan zee al lwilei
ever since that time. He would be
there of and on. Sometimes he would
be out in the country for q few
months. He worked for the Oahu
Lumber CO., when they wanted him.
For about a week before we were quar-
antined Seu Kan had no work. He
slept with me and hung around the
place during the day. While he was
living at those stables he ate with my
self and some other Cinnamon. When
hey wanted Seu Kan at the sOahu
Lumber Yard they sent for him. Seu
Kan did not work about the stables
/ first knew Seu Kan was sick on
March u, the day we were moved TO
Kakaako. He told me OF his sickness.
1 am hack-driver No. 1SS and keep
my hack, which belongs to a relation
Of mine, at the stables OF T. Guam Yee.
DIR. Garvin's Letter.
President Wood then read a commu-
nication from DIR. Garvin of Kahului,
Maui, as follows:
Kahului. Maui, March Il, 1900.
DR. g. u. Wood, Honolulu, II. 1.
Dear Sir: / have but little of i'm
portance to report since my last letter.
/ discovered plague bacilli in another
rat found dead near the warehouses
March 10th. The Tat-proOf fence is
completed around the town and the
railroad. The wharf has been carefully
cleaned. whitewashed and treated with
sulphurie acid. Nearly all the people
have been removed from town into
camp. i have been obliged to erect
several small cottages for the accom-
notation Of the white families, which
caused some delay.
There have been no cases OF sickness
in or around the town except of the
most trivial nature, for two weeks. The
final disposition of the Kahului store,
warehouses and the town itself is
awaited with much interest. The sani-
tary committee suggested building a
rat-proof fence around the store and
principal warehouses in the hopes of
catching the rats known to be infected,
just at present.
The feasibility of killing all the rats
is a matter OF some doubt TO me.
Very truly,
DR.. Garyin sent word under date of
March IA, as follows: There are no
deaths and no suspicious cases yester-
day nor today"
Dr. Wood recommended that a new
warehouse or new store, whichever
was desired, should be erected, to which
goods could be removed from the Ka-
hului store where an infected rat was
found. In this way the goods could be
disinfected or fumigated and taken to
the new building outside the enclosure
and stored. After this, rat-proof
fences could be erected around the in
fected premises and they could be
treated as the health authorities on
Maui see fit. This recommendation OF
Or. Woods was put in the form of a
motion by Lowrey, secor ded by Hatch
and carried by the Board.
Here DR.. Hoffmann telephoned TO the
Board that he had found Seu Kan TO
be a genuine case OF plague.
Upon this definite information Smith
moved and Emerson seconded that the
premises from which Seu Kan had
originally come, the Kwong zee stables
described above. should be destroyed by
fire as they were infected by plague,
in an insanitary condition, a source of
filth and a cause of sickness. Ii was
unanimously resolved that the premises
should be burned
The condemned property includes the
Kwong zee stables and several other
buildings from the mule paddock to the
premises of Mr.. Brash.
Authority to Contract Bills.
Hatch moved that all authority to
contract and approve bills be with
drawn from all persons except the regu-
lar employees of the Board of Health
and the Finance Committee. The mo-
tiOn was carried.
DR.. Wood read letter from the FL
nance Committee concerning the reduc-
ton of expenses, as follows:
Honolulu, March IS, 1900.
DR. c. Il. Wood, President Board Of
Health, Honolulu.
Dear Sir: As your finance committee
are passing pay rolls for the first half
Of the month, we beg to call the atten-
ton of your Honorable Board TO several
matters, with a view OF greater econo-
my from now on, il It Is possible that
such can be practiced.
Your committee is not in a position
TO understand all the demands and
necessities for these items, and it is
only to direct your attention to them,
and not 10 criticise, that we make men
ton Of the following:
In pay roll Of March Is. duly approv-
ed by yourself and G. B. Reynolds. We
note cost Of ambulance:
Night and day. 1 man with horse.
10 days at $3.50 per day. s112.5O; .
men, s. per day each. Is DAYS, $50;
2 men, 81 per night each, Is nights.
$3.50; total cost attendants for ambu-
lance, S412.5O.
We do not know how much the am