The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-01-09
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The new pesthouse at the rifle range
was not quite finished yesterday. 1t
will be completed this morning, when
the six patients in the pesthouse will
be removed thereto.
Col j. II. Fisher has volunteered to
take charge of the work heretofore in
charge of Mr.. Carter, which consists
of looking after the inspectors and
guards outside of Chinatown.
DR.. A. Il. Nichols has volunteered to
take charge of the detention camp at
the saluting battery. This is the sta
ton in which the pesthouse is now To-
Gated, and in which the inmates of ac-
tually infected buildings are quaran-
tined.
Alfred Carter has rendered his serv-
ices to The Board of Health to take
charge of the matter of placing guards
around the infected buildings and re-
moving the inmates therefrom to de-
tention stations. His offer has been
accepted. He took charge of the work
yesterday afternoon.
A contract was concluded yesterday
between the Board of Health and Geo.
II. Paris, by which the latter, who is
water from the sewerage tank
at Kakaako which flows in from
springs, will pump in the water which
now flows in from the sea to the de-
tention camp, when it will be used to
flush out closets and baths, the con-
tents of which will be carried out to
sea in tlume in the same manner as
at Kalihi camp.
An agreement was made yesterday
between the Board of Health and the
Oahu Railroad & Land Company, by
which the latter is to proceed today to
put in spur from the main track
down through the Kalihi camp. This
will greatly facilitate the handling of
lumber and supplies. For this purpose
a permit has been given to the COM
pany to take out thirty employees quar-
antined in Chinatown. They will be
quarantined in a boarding-car and be
inspected every day by DR.. Cooper.
The Plague in Japan.
The bubonic plague appears to be
spreading in Japan, as shown by ad-
vices up to December Both, received
this morning via the S. S. China. AT
TaihOku, four fresh cases and one death
were reported on the 25th and on the
following day there were four deaths
and two new cases. Up to the 10Th,
there had been 10 cases at Osaka and
twenty-five in Kobe.
Sixty immigrants to Hawaii arrived
at Tennoji station, Osaka, on the 14th
inst, from Wakayama, en- route to Go-
After sanitary inspection at
the station one of the laborers was
found to be suffering with a disease
to be plague. The patient was
conveyed to the hospital and the other
were taken there for dis
infection. The Japanese papers do not
say whether they were allowed to con-
tinue their journey to Honolulu, but 1t
is not stated that they were detained,
so they are presumably on the China
or some other vessel.
From the 18th TO the twelfth of De-
cember 69,036 people were subjected to
examinations in Yokohama.
OF these 1856 We're travellers; in kich-
inyado, 25,014; in brothels, SO; in
boarding houses, 400; in boarding
houses for coolies, 35,059; in ordinary
dwellings, 5575.
In both Kobe and Osaka plague prog
asni, who had been confined to his bed
for two or three days owing to slight
illness, passed medical inspection at
three o'clock on the afternoon of the
18th. and died suddenly half an hour
later. On examination of the corpse
plague bacilli were found in deceased's
lymph.
Cases of very rapid development are
cd ~, IN ha iesl, ~ bn
18th a man was found lying in the
him to "a police box and it was discov-
He was taken to n hospital and the
police box was reduced to ashes. All
the houses near where he was found
have been isolated. The last patient
was pilgrim, who developed
the disease while walking along the
street.
An official telegram from Formosa
dated December 18th, received by the
Home Office states that on the 18th
three fresh cases occurred in Taihoku,
while a similar number OF cases ter
fatally. On the following day
two persons were attacked by the dis
ease and day later there was another.
Up to date the number of cases totalled
2565, of which 1912 terminated fatally.
On the 10Th q young girl in Hyogo
died from the disease and on the fol-
lowing morning an aged Waterman at
Kobe was found dead, it is supposed
from plague, An eleven year school
student at Kitaku and a waiter on a
Sanyo railway train were later cases.
During two months from September
to October 734 vessels from Formosa,
Chinese ports and India were subjected
to sanitary inspection at the quaran-
tine stations of Yokohama. At Uraga
Di2 vessels were quarantined between
November 18th and December 18th.