Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-02-14
REPORT OF WAILUKU WORK

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and the community is fully aware of
the seriousness of the situation. Last
Saturday morning, a Chinaman who
had come from Kahului the previous
evening and slept over night at a
frien. house in Wailuku near the
railroad depot, was driven to DR.. Ar
mitage by John de Rego. Then was
DR.. Armitage's suspicion verified that
the plague is here
The doctor notified Sheriff Baldwin
of me case and in short while the
whole of Wailuku town and it's suburbs
Waikapu, Waiehee and Waihee we're
declared in quarantine. Kahului at
the same time was declared an infect
ed port and a strict quarantine was put
over the place.
The long building of Chinese stores
adjoining the Custom House was soon
surrounded by guards put there by the
sheriff. But many of the wary Japs
and Chinese of the place had already
skipped to all parts of Maui. Soon
after the deaths of the four mysterious
cases last week reported by the doc
tors as "pernicious malarial fever"
some of the Chinese and japanese be-
came suspicious of the. situation and
several hundred of them had already
deserted Kahului, some going up Paia,
Makawao, Kula, some in Waikiki.
Wailu"u, Waikapu and Waihee, and
some have even gone over to Lahana.
They knew what was coming.
Owing to the entire lack of instru-
ments up here-there is not even a
microscope of sufficient size to care
fully examine specimens from the in
fected parts-Drs. Armitage and We'd
dick were 10th to go ahead on the ply
steal appearances and declare the cases
to be plague.
AS long ago as Sunday. Feb. 4, when
the first suspicious case occurred in
Wailuku, DR.. Armltage reported It to
the sheriff as suspicious one. But
the sheriff did not deem himself. as
chief of the Board of Health on Maui,
justified in declaring quarantine right
away for fear of causing an unneces-
sary panic among the residents of
Maui, II 1t happened to turn out that the
case was not plague. Even after the
case of Sam Yeng, Chinaman, and the
japanese woman and her child who all
died in dirty novels in Kahului on the
18th inst, the sheriff did not feel justi-
fled in declaring quarantine, although
the circumstances leading to these last
deaths were even more suspicious than
the first. Last Friday, when the
wealthy Chinaman, All Ming died at
kahului, a well developed bubo was
noticed on the left leg of the deceased,
but the fact that All Ming had been
sick for three months was enough to
suppress the fear of the community.
However, DR.. Weddick, the govern
ment physician, cut off a portion of
e bubo and sent 1t to Honolulu with
the result already known.
The fact that many of the Chinese
and Japs left Kahului before the dec
of the quarantine at Kahu- |
lui is now worrying the people a great
deal.
The Chinaman that was discovered
by DR.. Armitage to be a plague case
was driven down 20 Kahului and put
in the kahului shooting range, which
was utilized as pest house in charge
Of Mr.. Green as nurse. The China |
man died at II o'clock Saturday night, |
with most painful agonies as reported |
W .ii' Ni''h' NHo Ndo lllt oiiN uI' |
who saw the victim pass away.
The iong building in Kahului will |
be burned at II o'clock this morning by |
order of the Board of Health. w. Il. |
deputy assessor of Waikiki
estImates the inhabitants in this build
ing to be nearly 1000. From the size
Of the bu.- .ings no one would suppose
that 500 people could be quartered
there Jas. l.. Coke, who
mas been visiting the building in the
of inspector, declares the place
% be in a most unsanitary condition.
There are no less than 500 small rooms
n this long building, the place being
Used for years as an opium and gamb-
ing den of the worst kind. The pub
ic is now glad that this most dis
equitable place will be wiped out OF
Existence.
Messrs. II. =. Baldwin, w. +. Pogue,
!. Won Tempsky and w. J. Lowrie and
heriff Baldwin were busy all day yes
erday erecting new shacks near the
ace track at Kahului for quarantlning
he inhabitants from the condemned
lace.
me hack of John dc Rego, in which
N plague Cinnamon drove to Dr. Ar
litage's, has been condemned. Sew
raj people rode in 1t however before
was declared infected