The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-02

wa wr0ng and q report was tele-
DloDed IN 20 the Health Office az once
50 amount Of questioning could elicit
. any information az 70 the whereabouts
81 the body, ard IL was not Until yes
tarday forenoon that the body was
discovered in swamp near by. An
examination by DR.. Garyin showed the
man had died Of pneumonia.
. Many cases OF sickness were visited
BIZ the physicians, but no other cases
OF plague were discovered. A report
came into the Office a. S o'clock that
2 plague death had occurred on Bere-
tania near Nuuanu. but after eXami-
nation a burial certificate was issued.
The Board Meets Citizens.
An important Board OF Health NEE
ing was called for last evening AZ 1890
.. n. az which President Doe, " mister
Mott-Smith and Minister Young OF the
c3oine. we're present By iny.-a.!oa.
There were also present Teszrs. r. VI
Hatch, l.. 4. Taurs-on, c. BOi.e, 4. ".
Carter, Geo r. Carter, Armstrong
Smith and DR.. Pratt. OF the Board OF
HeaIh there were presen- Drs. Day.
Z Wood and Emerson and Geo. W. Smith.
who acted as chairman Of the meeting,
wee President Cooper, who was too ex-
haUsted 10 attend.
Mr.. Smith In calling the meeting 20
order, announced the purposes Of u as
/ follows.
''The meeting has been called pri-
marily 10 consult with the Cabinet on
I tse Chinatown question The Board OF
Health is under aking a great respOn-
sibility 10 the destruction Of buildings
/ in Chinatown, especially in view OF the
! fact that the whole Of tire Chinatown
district is infac.ed and viii have 20 be
/ destroyed.
What the Board Of Health especially
wants Is the support Of the Government
and OF the people. We want 20 be sure
II that support. re may be laying
ourselves liable, individually and col
lectiyely, To damages, and therefore We
want the support OF the government"
President Dole: How many people
are there?"
Mr. Smith: Il don't know exactly,
/ think there are ten 70 twenty thou
sand natives. Chinese and Japanese
there"
.Jr. Wood: Where cases have brOk-
en- ont. I certainly know the hab-ta-
tons are infected. II any one viii take
the trouble 70 20 Through there and see
the narrow passageways with house
| floors directly on the ground, one can
readily see how infection passes
When we have burned down buildings.
/ where cases OF plague have occurred
/ still We may not have reached the limit
/ Of the infection IN that manner. We
/ ind ina. the infection was carried
| across Nuuanu street from Ahi's 20 the
place where two cases occurred and
/ which caused the burning OF two places
/ yesterday. The physicians are con-
| WINGED II vas carried across the street
by rats"
Much discussion was brought about
by reference to the quarantine OF per
sons at Kakaako, VI mister Young stat
ing that IL was unsafe from a sanitary
! standpoint for 30 many people being
housed here. II was finally decided
that tracts OF land II Kalihi or behind
! the leper receiving station were fit
; places for constructing barracks TO ac-
cOmmodate from 500 to 1000 persons.
The medical members of the BoaId
stared chat the burning of a structure
here and there in Chinatown would not
eradicate the disease. nor would lsolat-
ing each block and throwing guards
. around II be OF any benefit. The dis
r trict, they maintained, was infected
T through and through. and an absolute
, " new and clean place was necessary
5 20 PIT them ali in. After their removal
: the district should then be burned as
1 quickly as possible In Orde' 20 stamp
out the plague.
II To sum up the proceedings. so thai
re community should know definitely
= what the Board OF Health intended e
,lpursue as a policy. Mr.. l.. A. ThurstOI
: offered the following resolution:
: ut IS the sense OF this meeting thai
e It is SCUM policy 70 remove to quaran
: tine as rapidly as practicable, the resi-
d ldents of the Chinatown district and u
:, ltake any and every step. without limit
d necessary 10 stamp out the plague, in
7 Guiding the destruction Of buildings
ard other property"
This resolution was carried unani
nOusly.
III President Dole asked il the whole o
z Chinatown had to be destroyed. The
I Board stated II was tneir opinion tina
l 1 Il should be entirely wiped out.
|, DIR. Day offered the following mo
] ton:
D ~ move that the Chinem appoint ;
a Committee of citizens 20 select and &C
-, qHre suitable locality for a detention
Gimp for persons now resident in Chi
2 natown or other guaranteed districts
] and TO erect buildings for the accom-
}, mediation OF such persons as they shall
T be advised as 10 number by the Boar
r of Health.
4 II move that the chairman appoint q
d and let this be the means that We nov
9 take for combating the plague"
q After considerable discussion III
d Board adopted the motion.
= The chairman appointed as a citi
L zen's committee TO look up a suitabl
i site for a quarantine station, Ministe
n n.ex. Young, Geo. X. Carter, G. BOlte
> Jas. Kennedy, G. p. Ripley, DR.. Her
q Dert, and one other. l. 4. Thursto
e was alec added 20 the committee i
IS place OF Geo. r. Carter. who asked Z
Is be relieved OF the extra duty.
/ Minister Young has requested u
members OF the committee to NEE
him at HIS Office in the Executiv
Building AZ 9 O'Clock this morning.
Is Two Cases of Leprosy.
n Judge A. W. Carter. who has charg