The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-27

wife and family in the Mclean block
until driven away to All Fai's house.
Tracing the Infection.
The death of Mrs. Bisling, the ma
tive woman, occurred early yesterday
morning. AS related in yesterdays
ADVERTISE. the woman showed few
symptoms of plague the night before,
it being thought she was merely in a
high fever At the morgue yesterday.
fndisputable evidence of the cause of
her death was revealed in the discov-
cry of well-developed bubo.
She had not been in Honolulu since
the plague started here. Her husband
is carpenter employed at the Kalihi
detention camp. The son has been en-
ployed off and on at one of the ocean
steamer docks, but has been at home
since last Saturday. In the house ad-
joining. which is occupied by a blind
native man and family, a native man
and woman also have been staying.
according to their story, for near
ly two weeks, stating that they came
from Punchbowl. They brought no
baggage whatever with them, and the
blind man says he understood they
were to visit him but one night. 1t
| is the impression of the Board that
both the native man and 4Onan are
people who formerly belonged IN the
infected district, but had in some man
ner escaped and gone to Punchbowl
street and from there to the Kaimuki
tract, where they thought they would
I be safe from detection. All the in
mates Of both houses were taken to
the quarantine stations.
| There Is positively no connection be-
tween the woman who died and the
native woman around town known as
Sweet Emily" as has been reported.
Mrs. Bisling was a woman of AZ years,
and has two grown children. while
Sweet Emily" is probably not more
than thirty years old.
The suspect case is that of a Hawaii
an boy. 16 years old. named Hoomana
Wanui, first reported and attended by
DR.. Herbert. DR.. Garvin went out to
see the boy yesterday evening and took
the boys temperature, which regis
tered 104k. AS the boy had been
i'll only since morning, DR.. Garvin re-
ported the case at the Board of Health
office as suspicious. Up to Thurs
day the boy had been work
ing at the Kalihi detention
eamT. and complained that day of not
feeling well. The symptoms so far de-
velored are pulmonic. He still re-
maigs q mis- home. and will be re-
moved today II the case is certainly
diagnosed as one OF plague
Board of Health Meeting.
Every member of the Board OF
Health was present at yesterdays ses-
sion, President Wood occupying the
chair The members present were, At
torney-General Cooper, Drs. Day and
Emerson, George w. Smith, F. VI.
hatch and +. w. Lowrey.
| The President read a communication
from John Grace, chairman of the Hi.o
Health Committee, which referred to
the doings of that committee and the
| appointment of a special representa-
tive to confer with the Honolulu Board
of Health. The letter and its request
were somewhat ambiguous to the Board
and the same was laid over until COM
munication could be had with Mr..
Loebenstein, who arrived yesterday by
the Kilauea HOu. and who Is to act for
| the Hlloites. The only apparent mo-
tive for Mr.. Loebenstein's visit to Ho-
nolulu was that there was probably
a Ish hJrtage OF provisions at some point
on Hawaii and shipments from this
port were absolutely necessary.
Mr.. Hatch called further reading
of the Sanitary Re, .ations, and made
some important changes, one of which
is that the depth OF cesSpools has been
changed from nine feet as formerly
printed, to eighteen feet.
1t was moved by Mr.. Hatch and sec
onded by Mr.. Smith. that the regula-
tlons be adopted by the Board OF
Health. Carried.
Complaints of Chinese.
Complaints of some of the merchants
of the Chinatown district untouched
by the late fire were discussed. Some
Of these related to their desire to do
everything in their power to bring
about a raising Of the quarantine on
their places OF business and have the
streets re-opened, namely, Nunnu,
hotel and King streets. II was de-
c.ded that IL the merchants removed
the structures in the rear OF their
stores, which were mostly lean-tos,
and have their stores thoroughly fumi-
gated under the supervision of the
SPECIAL agent Of the Board, such a
course might be adopted.
At present these streets are not be-
ing strictly quarantined because 1t has
not been considered necessary to do
that The center Of the Infection has
evidently been destroyed In that dis
trict and the Board does not now feel
that It can run a dividing line through
Nuuanu street and say that one side is
clean and the other side unclean. The
Board Is now seriously considering the
plan to employ a Sanitary Engineer, as
proposed sometime ago, to make an
original report upon the places In ques-
ton and recommend the changes that
are considered necessary to make the
section clean from Infection.
II was moved that the fence contract.
around the burnt district, be awarded
20 Mr.. Russell he being The lowest
binder, namely 80 cents per lineal foot.
Motion carried
,tr Hatch uooynd that the fr-+ nor