The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-09
garbage Of the town should be provided
for.
w L. TAYLOR, MD.
J. II. RAYMOND. ND.
Committee Hawaiian Medical Associa-
ton.
Dete alton Camp Notes.


The buildings heretofore used as
noon.
The Hawaiian Electric Company
placed electric lights at the saluting
battery IN the quarantine district yes
terday.
Mr.. Reynolds Of the Board OF Health
was forced TO go home yesterday. tired
out by his exhaustive work OF several
weeks past He will take a thorough
rest.
The new pesthouse at the rife range
was not quite finished yesterday. II
will be completed this morning, when
the six patients in the pesthouse will
be removed thereto.
Col. J. II. Fisher has volunteered TO
take charge OF the work heretofore in
charge of Mr.. Carter, which consists
of looking after the inspectors and
guards outside of Chinatown.
Or. 4. Z. Nichols has volunteered to
take charge of the detention camp at
the saluting battery. This is the sta
tion in which the pesthouse is now To-
Gated, and in which the inmates OF ac-
tually infected buildings are quaran-
tined.
ALI tu 1dllt MS ltllutItu his EeIN-
| ices to The Board OF Health to take
charge Of the matter Of placing guards
around the infected buildings and re-
moving the inmates therefrom to de-
tention stations. His offer has been
accepted. He took charge of the work
yesterday afternoon.
\ contract was concluded yesterday
between the Board of Health and Geo.
IL. A. .g.N. a.
pumping water from the sewerage tank
| at KakaakO which flows in from
springs, will pump in the water which
now flows in from the sea to the de-
! tention camp. when il will be used to
| flush out closets and baths. the con-
| tents of which will be carried out 10
sea in a flume in the same manner as
| proposed at Kalihi camp.
| An agreement was made yesterday
between the Board of Health and the
Oahu Railroad & Land Company, by
which the latter is TO proceed today TO
put in a spur from the main track
down through the Kalihi camp. This
will greatly facilitate the handling of
lumber and supplies. For this purpose
a permit has been given to the COM
pany to take out thirty employees quar-
lquaranrined i'm a boarding-car and be
inspected every day by DR.. Cooper.
The Plague in Japan.
! Tle bubonic plague appears 10 be
spreading in Japan. as shown by ad-
vices up TO December Both, received
this morning via the 5. $ China. At
lTaihoku. four fresh cases and one death
were reported on the 25th and on the
| following day there were four deaths
and two new cases. Up TO the 26th,
there had been IL cases al Osaka and
twenty-five in Kobe.
| Sixty immigrants 10 Hawaii arrived
at TennOji station, Osaka, on the lith
inst, from Wakayama, en- route to 1O-
kohama. After sanitary inspection al
| the station one Of the labOrers was
found to be suffering with a disease
supposed to be plague. The patient was
conveyed 10 the hospital and the other
immigrants were taken there for dis
| infection. The Japanese papers do not
say whether they were allowed to con-
| tinue their journey 20 Honolulu, but IL
is not stated that they were detained,
so they are presumably on the China
or some other vessel.
| From the 10Th 20 the twelfth OF De
cember 90 .O36 people were subjected 70
sanitary examinations in Yokohama.
Of these 1855 were travellers; in kich-
| inyado. 25.014; in brOthels, 36: in
boarding houses, 490; in boarding
houses for coolies. 35.059; in ordinary
dwellings, 5575.
In both Kobe and Osaka plague prog
ress is reported. 4 man living in Hig-
Iasni. who had been confined to his bed
for two or three days owing 10 slight
ILLNESS. passed a medical inspection a.
three o'clock on the afternoon OF the
| 18th. and died suddenly half an hour
later. On examination OF the corpse
plague bacilli were found in deceased 5
| lymph.
| Cases Of very rapid development are
/ reported in Osaka. On the night OF the
I1sth a man was found lying in the
street very ILL., The police conveyed
/ him to a police box and IL was discoy-
cred that he was suffering from plague.
| He was taken to a hospital and the
| police box was reduced 20 ashes. All
| the houses near where he was found
have been isolated. The last patient
reported was a pilgrim. who developed
the disease while walking along the
/ street.
| An official telegram from Formosa
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/ Home Office states that on the 18th
three fresh cases occurred in TaihOku.
| while a similar number OF cases ter
minated fatally. On the following day
two persons were attacked by the dis
| ease and a day later there was another.
! TD 20 date the number Of cases tOtalled
/ ZJG5 Of which 1912 terminated fatally.
/ On the 18th a young girl in HyOgO
| died from the disease and on the fol-
/ lowing morning an aged watchman az
: Kobe was found dead, it is supposed
from plague. An eleven year school
student at Kitaku and a waiter on a
/ SlnyO railway train were later cases.
During two months from September
10 October 7Si vessels from FOrmOsa.
Chinese ports and India were subjected
20 sanitary inspection az the quaran-
tine stations Of Yokohama. Al Uraga
542 vessels were quarantined between
November 18th and December l1th.