Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-02-13
&C. +. WOOD,
"Prcsidcnt Board Of Health"

&C. b. WOOD.
president Board Of Health
The action of the President in giving
the above. instructions was approved.
The minutes of the Kahului meeting
as given above were voted confirmed
and incorporated in the minutes Of the
, Board Of Health.
Continuing, President Wood said:
THE Kahului people, carrying out
their actions, put hahului into quaran-
tine as against the remainder of the
island and placed a special quarantine
on Chinatown. Al 1.-The merchandise
in the warehouses and all the stores
in the Kahului store We're QuarantinCd
the orders being that nothing in the
way of merchandise should be moved
out of Kahului.
THE grand stand at the race track
was boarded up ana turned into a de-
tcntiOn camp. The people from China
town were then bathed. given clean
clothes and sent to this place. Prep
aratiOnS were at once made to burn
the whole of Chinatown and, upon ar.
rival at Lahaina, on my way back to
Honolulu. ! learned that the fire had
already been started.
Or. Armitage. who had charge of
all the cases gave the following notes:
Case l-Ah Tong, male Chinese,
taken from a washhouse in Chinatown.
This man sent to Wailuku and while
there, saw Dr.. Armitage, February !.
Reported that he had been Ill since
January 30. Temperature lOi, pulse
rapid. Enlargement of the glands Of
the neck began February >. Went
back to Kahului and died in his place.
The house in Waikiki in which he
stayed was burned
Case MALE Chinese, also from
washnouse. Was seen by DR.. Armitagc
| February I sitting up in daZed con
dition. Temperature lOi. No en-
Iargcmcnt of the glands. No pneu-
monte symptoms. Patient died shortly
after being seen
Cases , and 4-Japancse woman
and child. seen by Or. Armitage Feb
ruary L. Originally from SpreckeIs-
Vile plantation but had been in Chi
natOwn in Nahuui for some time.
Child d.ed during the night and the
woman the next morning. Latter com
planned Of pains. No glandular en-
|
Just here President Wood stated that
the examinations may not have been
very searching and thus glanduar en-
largements or pneumonia symptoms
might have escaped the notice of a
physician.
Case 5--Ah Ming, male Chinese,
first seen by DE-. Armitage February
7. Temperature 1913. Chills, FemOral
enlargement. This was the case that
furnished the gland for microsCOpical
examinations in Honolulu.
Case 6-Ah Sam, male Chinese, first
seen by DR.. Armitage February ..
Temperature 100. Right aXillary bubo
PANS. Post mOrtcm by DR.. Garvin.
Spleen enlarged and left lung black
and soft. Slides showed any amount OF
baclli.
Case Male Chinese, taken sick be
fore arrival OF physicians from Homo
lulu and died three hours after beinG
seen.
"ChinatOwn," continued Dr. Woou
+ covers a tract between two aud three
acres in extent and all the cases Of
plague in Kahului came from the cen
ter Of that place. | found conditions
there most unsantary, worse in fac
than those that existed in Honolulu''
Chinatown. The houses are built di
= rectly on the ground. There was NJ
= chance for Il cesspOol and the drinking
water was obtained from surface wells
directly to the rear of the various
6 buildings. 1t was evident that Their,
= was only one acknowledgment o
y the place by fire.
;, Now then as to the chances that tn
, disease has gotten out Of Kahului
I On Saturday at 10 Il. m. the whole plac,
was put into quarantine. The census
was short about 200. We went through
every room in Chinatown. One Jap
I anese was found to be feverish but tn
= case cleared up and the fever disap
peared very soon. There We're no sus
. piciOus cases.
4 Previous to the sickness there wer
300 people, but between so and 100 ha'
> left, probably after the first case. Tn
people of Kahului were rapidly locat
" ing the Tunaways. A dozen were foun
; in Kula, four in Lahaina and other il
Waikiki. The sheriff had started ou
with good men to locate all these PEG
pie and it was his idea that all the run
!. aways should be located before maxim