The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-02-22

has been in the room since; of this
MIR. Buckley has assured me.
Il also saw personally TO the clean
ing up OF the stables and ordered an
Objectionable cesspool filled up. The
water closet which had been used by
this victim was taken out and a new
cesspool was dug and a patent water
closet put in.
1T was stated yesterday that this
| japanese plague victim had worked at
| the Hotel Stables up to the 2Oth OF
| January and that after that a man
| had been substituted for him with the
intention of deceiving the inspector
when he made his rounds; that when
| the Japanese had left on account of
| sickness, another Jap, answering to
his name, took his place. l think this
requires some explanation, and as Mr.
| Buckley is here now / think it would
be well to call upon him to explain
matters, if that is the sense of the
meeting"
The latter part of DR.. Woods state
ment had to be repeated, as Mr.. Buck
ley, being somewhat deaf, did not hear
Mr. Buckley's Statement.
DR.. Wood: Mr.. Buckley, how long
was this Japanese who slept at the Ho-
tel Stables in January, and who after
wards died Of the plague, working for
your"
Mr.. Buckley: About seven or eight
days"
Q. us it a fact that when he was
taken sick and removed to the place
on Nuuanu and Kukui streets, that
another man was secured in his place,
answering to his name, in order 20 de-
ceiye the inspector on his rounds?"
A. When the Jap went away sick,
i he sent another man in his place, as is
the custom with Asiatics."
@. WAS this done in order to de-
ceive the Inspector"
A. mo-
Q. did this substitute answer to
the same name as the first MANI"
A. 81 do not know that he did; the
first man left. 1t was necessary to
have another one, and, as the first
| man had sent man in his place, it
| name he answered to. / heard that the
plague had been previously working at
the Pantheon Stables
Q. do you know where the second
victim from the Hotel Stables, All
Hung, had spent his nights in kaka-
ako or Pauoa valley?"
| A. mo; when first the fellow was
sick and wanted to go to his friends
house in Pauoa valley, l got DR.. Coop
er to examine him. DR.. Cooper said
he was all right; that he had only a
| little cold. Then / went down to the
Citizens Sanitary Committee to get
| him a moving-permit. / was gone
about two hours. They informed me
at the committees Office that | would
have to get a recommendation for the
man from the inspector OF the district
in which he slept-Kakaako. When |
got back to the stables All Hung had
gone; I don't know where"
| DR.. Emerson: do you know If the
Substitute sent to you by the japanese,
the first victim from the stables, an
Bwered to the same name as the Jap
who afterwards died Of the plague?'
A. "No."ot
Mr.. Smftf1l "How long did he work
for your"
A. "Seven or eight days"
DR.. Wood: What were his duties
about the stables?"
A. Washing carriages and cleaning
horses"
DR.. Wood. THAT will do Mr.. Buck
ley"
| DR.. Wood, speaking further on the
subject, said:
"In regard to the first victim, the
man who was reported to have been
sick on the premises, the only informa-
ton we had on the subject was after
the man had been found dead; then
we learned that he had been in the
Hotel Stables. He left the stables on
1.-The goth and was dead on the I'D, ac-
eording to the inspectors report. An
other story was that he had not been
at the stables for five days before his
death. also learned that he had been
working at the Pantheon Stables pre-
vious to his employment in the Hote
Stables.
Sickness Not From Soil.
Now concerning the case of Ar
Hung: The postmortem examination
showed no femoral bubo and the indi-
, cations were that infection had moi
been taken from the soil. Neither Of
the last two cases, Chinese (the one
taken from Ming street anu Iu0 w al
kiki road and the victim from the Ho'
tel Stables), were cases of soil infec'
ton DR.. Hoffmann's report clearly
shows that, and the symptoms in botf
cases point conclusively to the fact thai
the disease was contracted through the
: eating of infected food or through
! breathing it into the lungs. Bronchia
/ pneumonia characterized both these
last cases.
, 1.-The question of the disposition o
, the Hotel Stables must be dealt will
/ | in one of two ways: If the sickness!
/ was contracted on the premises, theI
/ the place should be condemned and ex
treme measures taken; if infection
) was taken through foodstuffs o.
, through the lungs, then no such eX
, treme measures are necessary.
Mr.. Hatch: How long was Al
Hung at the Hotel Stables on Monda!
last?"
} DR.. Wood: Il understand he go
=, there about 1880 in the morning; tina
Dr. Hoffman, was called about 7:45
= and that the man was removed to tn
- pesthouse Immediately"
/. Mr.. Buckley was again referred L