The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-03-28
SUSPECTS IN FRISCO O.TNOENNST TOURNAMENTS
SOME SUSPECT PLAGUE; SOME
SUSPECT POLITICS.
Three Deaths That the Bacteriologists
Are Not Certain About, But Get an
Appropriation on Account"

SAN FRANCISCO, March 21.-The
Health Department is about to make
its second assault upon the sanitary
and other conditions of Chinatown, and
with the rising of the sun tomorrow,
nearly $50 stalwart employees of the de-
partment will enter upon the task of
destroying undesirable or dangerous
structures and fixtures, burning tainted
provisions and flushing out hidden re-
treats.
A death at 723 Sacramento street, an
other at 905 Dupont street and a third
in Oneida Place are the fatalities which
stimulated the Health Board to imme-
diate action, and from these 1t is feared
number of other deaths will soon fol-
low. While the authorities do not claim
! that the bubonic plague has lifted its
head or broken out under cover, they
do claim that the filth and poor sani-
| tary conditions of the district have
caused an epidemic among the Chinese
which may any day develop into the
plague and become widespread In the
three cases mentioned the cause of
death has not been definitely known,
and the authorities intimate that II
may be the plague in a mild form. It is
this state of affairs which has led to
the campaign against uncleanliness
and stagnatiOn in the houses and
streets of the Oriental district.
Glands from the three subjects which
| nave now puzzled the authorities are
under examination, but no positive YER
dict has been rendered by DR.. Kinycun.
the Federal bacteriologist, and DR.. Kel-
logg in the municipal service. The au-
thorities will neither assert nor deny
that the cases are those of bubonic
plague.
The Chronicle of March 21 says:
IF the members of the Board of
Health would display half the energy
! in the transaction of the legitimate du-
ties of their department as they have
SHOWN in their shameful effort to fasten
the bubonic stigma upon the city, they
might hope ultimately to see their con-
nection with one Of Phelan's boards
forgiven Unfortunately, the outfit,
from the Man Town, seems to be un-
mindful of the elfare of San Fran
cisco. In It's wild efforts to obtain win
dication' for its first ridiculous error
Of alleged plague, the BOARD is willing
to run the risk of ruintng. the city for
an indefinite period 1t has now. come
boldly to the front with the claim that
1t has unearthed three more suspic-
ious' cases. -
While there Is every reason for be-
lievingst that these suspects will
amount to no more than the first case
the Board has been able to hoodwink
tAiG II lilctllCG COIlHllIleG OI the BOARD
of Supervisors into agreeing to provide
at least $500 with which to inspect
Chinatown"
"Of the three cases which the Board
has under investigation are those of a
Chinese who died a week ago, and a
second and third man who died Sun
day. Physicians signed the death GER
tificates Of the first and last named
men, giving pneumonia and heart trou-
BILE as the disease in the first case, and
pneumonia in the second. In spite Of
this fact the inspectors take charge of
the bodies and ordered autopsies held.
DR.. Kinyoun the Federal bacteriologist,
is assisting DIR. Kellogg, the bacteriolo-
gist of the Board of Health, in the in
vestigatlons. AS the result of prelimi-
nary examinations of parts of glands
of the first two cases the physicians
expressed the belief that the cases
looked much like the bubonic plague
A quarantine was established on the
Oneida place, and the other places were
disinfected.
'The Chinese Consul General, Ho
Vow, is in receipt of a communication
from DR.. Elmer Lee, chairman of the
American Medical Association, COM
mending the part which Ho Vow took
in protesting against the recent block
ade of Chinatown, and condemning the
local Health officers as alarmists"