The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-02-08
FROM BLOCK I9 WAR PARLIAMENT OPENS
FOLLOWS THE ACTION OF THE
BOARD OF HEALTH.
Two Undertakers and Mills Institute
Included Within the Tabu Lines.
Puzzling question for the authorities.

There was some lively moving yes.
terday afternoon and evening from
block 10, the one which the Pantheon
stables and saloon were burned in the
morning. The moving continued to the
middle of the forenoon to day
1t was caused by the spread of the
report that the Board of Health had
declared the block infected and had or
dered 1t to be quarantned. Every
body was expecting to see a guard
thrown around the building at any time
and everybody was hustling to get out
before this was done.
The resolution adopted was as fol-
lows
Resolved, that block 10, to wit the
block bounded by Fort, Chaplain, Nuu-
anu and Hotel streets be placed in qua
rantine until the further order of this
board in consequence of the occurrence
of plague in said block and that the
residents in said block be removed and
held in quarantine for 10 days and that
a tight board fence be at once erected
around said block.
| In it's terms it is peremptory and
dates from it's passage. But the dis
cussion which preceded it showed that
the Board was reluctant to make the
order include the whole block when
there are a number of well built, and
comparatively new brick buildings in it
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infected, or are in condition to become
infected. But it yielded to what SEEM
! ed to it the necessities of the case, and
Immediately gave orders for the con-
struction of a rat proof fence around
| the block, the building of which has
already commenced. There was a good
deal of discussion as to the possibility
of quarantining the people who have
business in in the block in the same
way that the people of the Arlington
Hotel were quarantined. These were
allowed to go about their regular bust.
ness, but were required to report to a
medical officer twice a day. The OBJ
lection to this was the the difficulty of
! making the quarantine equal on all,
and effective as to some of the Asiatics
who have way of running away. The
matter was not fully decided, but it
was ordered that the Drill shed camp
be got in readiness to be used, as should
be hereafter decided, in quarantining
these people.
There are q number of important
establishments and Institutions affect
ed by this order. There are a number
or important Japanese stores in brick
buildings on Hotel street. The Clut
stables and the harness foctory anC
carriage salesroom in connection with
the stables are in this block. Both e
G. Williams and II. II. Williams, the
only white undertakers in town are in.
cluded in this block. E. C. Williams, trt
secured place on Liliha street for his
establishment, and will have an office
down town. II. H. Williams expects
to make arrangements that will enable
him to continue a business which is as
necessary in time of plague as at any
other time, for the last enemy, has
not yet been entirely conquered.
In the Love building, a modern build
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practically rat proof, with it's varied
tenants including a number of music
teachers, and other professional people
is in this block So also is f. w. Da-
mons Mills Institute. The pupils OF
this school were removed to Moanalua
some time ago, but there is an immense
amount of property, including a very
valuable collection of plants, which il
is feared would suffer from this qua.
rantine.