Hutchinson gazette., 1900-01-18
FIGHT WITH PLAGUE
Desperate Efforts to Stanop 1t Out
at Honolulu.
CHINATOWN is NOW BEING BURNED
Only One Caucasian Attacked, Mo"t
OF the Victims Being Chinese
People Can Now leave Hone
OluIu In SnIlIug Vessels.
Honolulu, Jan. $, via san francisco,

Honolulu, Jan, s, via san Francisco,
Jan. l5,--Smce January /, nine cases
OF plague have developed, maNng
twenty two cases to date, The board
o. health has adopted heroic meas
u nd it is believed that the work
NV in progress will stamp out the
scourge IN Il short time,
Thus far but one Caucasian has
been attacked, This case was that OF
Ethel johnson, Norwegian girl,
aged III years. The other twenty-one
cases are divided as follows: Chinese,
Is: Japanese 2; Ilawaians 3; South
Sea islander, /.
The following resolutionwus adopt
ed by the board of health!
ut is the sense of thismeeting that
it is sound policy to remove to
quarantine as rapidly as possible the
residents of the Chinatown district
u 4 to take any and every step with
o = limit necessary to stamp out the
pague, including the destruction Of
buildings and other property
In accordance with the foregoing,
Chinatown is being rapidly burned
out. Within week majority Of
the residents Of the plague spot will
be removed to new and cleaner quar-
ters on the outskirts of the city.
Thirty-one small buildings are being
erected by the government, These
structures will accommodate 1900
persons,
On the 3rd inst. the board of
health declared the entire judicial
district of Honolulu under quaran-
tine. All persons are forbidden to
leave the district without permission
from the board of health. All per-
sons outside Of the district are for
hidden to harbor any person coming
from the district without the per-
mission Of the board of health,
The council of the state has Nppro-
priated S2T3,OOO with which TO fight
the plague and place the city in u
proper sanitary condition.
Attorney General Copper has re-
signed his position rs president Of
the board of health. Pressure of
business in his regular department is
snid to be the cause. lie has been
succeeded by DR.. c, b, Wood, a mem
ber of the board. Francis NJ. Hatch,
formerly Hawaiian minister at Wash
ington, has been made member of
the health board
Some of the captains Of the sailing
vessels leaving here for the coast are
relaxing from the strictness of the
rule of taking no passengers from
Honolulu. and there Is now some
chance for people to go away If they
are willing to go on sailing vessels.
The schooner Columbia, which leaves
here next week, is taking passengers.
She goes to Port Townsend.
The bubonic plague appears to be
81 aiding in Japan, as shown by ad-
vices up to December 80, received this
morning via steamship China. At
Taihoku, four fresh cases and one
death were reported on the 2lth, and
Oh the following day there were four
deaths and two new cases. Up to the
goth there has been fifteen cases at
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Sixty immigrnntsto Hawaii arrived
at Tennoj station, Osaka, on the 14th
inst, from W0kayamn, en- route to
Yokohama. After sanitary inspection
at the station one Of the laborers
was found to be suffering with u
disease supposed TO be the plague.
T. patient was conveyed to the hos
pital and the other immigrants were
taken there for disiniection.
The japanese papers do not say
whether they were allowed to con-
tinue their journey to Honolulu, but
it is not stated that there were any
detained, so they are presumably on
the China or some other vessel.
The authorities on the island OF
Kauai have taken action that seems
to completely cut off the island from
communication with Honolulu on ac-
count Of the plague. Even mail can
not come from there while the pres
ent rules are enforced, and the Is
land Steamship Company will suffer
heavily in loss of business. The
steamer Ike Au Hou arrived this
morning from The island withouthav.
ing been able to approach any wharf.
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