The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-02-13
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The Kauai arrived off the harbor at
130 this morning, bringing President
Wood back from Maui with news that
the plague at Kahului was proven by
postmortems and by examination of
microscopical slides, and that seven
deaths had occurred. President Wood
stated to reporter as soon as he set
foot upon the Inter-Island wharf:
I'VE left here at 11:45 Saturday night
and arrived at Kahului early Sunday
morning. and by 8 o'clock managed to
land. When We got ashore the resi-
dents were surprised to see DR.. Gar
vim and myself, as they had just sent
Mr.. Hons to Honolulu on the ,Lehua.
"They reported to us that a man had
died that morning, a Chinese. and they
had taken the body away to cremate
it. sent messenger post haste after
the people in charge of the body, tell
ing them to stop in order that we
could see 1t. They had taken posses
sion of the rife range and used that
as a morgue and the man was left
there. After we started for the morgue
we were told that another case was re-
ported in Chinatown.
We Immediately went to see the man
and found him in a house where an
other Chinaman had died of plague; 1t
was little shop. The man was down
stairs and sitting on wooden bench.
When he saw us coming he sat up and
tried to make bluff of being we'll for
the time being. We found him typi
cal case of plague. black plague at that,
and in an advanced stage. He had bu
boes In the right femoral and inguinal
regions. | remarked at the time that
he would die in six hours, and he died
in three hours.
After seeing this man We went over
to the temporary morgue where we
made postmortem on the Chinaman.
Here we also found typical case of
plague and found a bubo in the axil-
larry glands. We performed thorough
time some Of the sanitary committee
of Kahului arrived. with them we're
DR.. Weddick, DIR. McConkey and Dr..
Sabey. who witnessed the postmortem.
We made slides from the spleen and
glands and found the bacilli in largo
numbers.
"The body was then cremated. A
funeral pyre was erected out of rail-
road ties. Just about the time they
finished cremating this Chinaman, the
man weshad first seen on our way I'D
was brought over and also cremated.
We then went back to the railroad
company's office and a meeting of the
Sanitary Committee of Maui was held
there. The minutes of the meeting
were as follows:
Dr. g. B. Wood, chairman, present,
as agents Of the Board of Health, Drs.
Weddick, McConkey, Sheriff L. M.
Baldwin, H. P. Baldwin. Messrs. Low
RE. Won Tempsky and Ogg. Besides
these all the white population that
could be spared from patrolling were
present.
"The following resolutions were pre-
scented and passed:
I'm the opinion of the Sanitary Com
mittee Of Maui. the district in Kahu-
iui. known as Chinatown, bounded by
the Kahului railroad track and the
new wharf. and Front street to the
seaside. excepting the Custom house.
is infected by bubonic plague, and |
public safety demands that 1t be de-
stroyed by fire." Carried.
Moved that the Sanitary ,Committee |
be authorized to appeint q committee |
OF three to appraise The buildings, and |
another committee Of three to ,appraise !
the goods, the same to be destroyed
with the buildings, with the exception
of such papers ana yaluables as may
be designated by the committee. and |
can safely be disinfected." Carried.
Moved that the whole of Kahului
be guaranteed as against the rest of |
the island. and that there be special
quarantine placed on Chinatown. as
against the whole town of Kahului."
"All freight to and from vessels In
the port OF Kahului and to and from
the uninfected districts. shall be hand
led by the Kahului Railroad Company |
from their railway line and scows;
such handling OF freight to be done en-
Linely by men from the uninfected dis
riots outside of Kahului" Carried