The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-06-02
SAY CASE IS PLAGUE
Physicians Investigate Death of
aChinaman.

/ San Francisco, May 30.-The city
board of health today held an autopsy
on the body of Chinaman found last
night in Chinese undertakers estab-
| lishment. A member of the board
| stated that the result of the autopsy
strongly Indicated that the Chinese dieG
of the bubonic plague. In order tc
! demonstrate fully whether or not il
was a 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:
mo, 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 fnoculate number of
animals with the bacillus. That is the
only infallible test
According to Dr. Williamson, presi-
dent of the board of health, the Gordon
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-
lions 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 "one 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
DR.. 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
were barricaded in some instances, but
as rule the Chinese have offered no
stubborn resistance. They are rather
inclined to yield to the wishes of the in
spectors and in few days we expect
that all trouble in this respect will
have passed.
The mail service in the Chinese quar-
ter will not he 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 quaran-
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
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
to lift the embargo. The Chinese say
they would be willing to aid the health
if an epidemic existed, but,
knowing that such is not the case, they
refuse to submit to being shut off from
the outside world without at least some
show of resistance.