Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-03-31

ana burned. Inc Board glAnten VI"
rogue st as a case of plague was found
in that vicinity. Tho i,5ee VIII he
awarded his claim rs IL Is only Tor
the amount he will loose in rents from
this time until the lease expires, which
Will be shortly.
A letter will go by tne MOnnl today
from the Board Of " alth to the Hawa-
ilan consul In San Francisco, Instruct
ing him to telegraph 10 Washington
for three hundred and lffy lasKs of
serum In esupply Is nearly exhausted.
II It is not to be had in Washington
the consul is to place his order in
Paris.
1t takes no less than ten Walls IT,
patient and this has about exhausted
the serum on hand.
DR.. Hoffman, stated that, as he So
rum was used in such large quantities,
1t would be wise to order no less than
three hundred and fifty TASKS.
Mr.. Giffard, Of w. G.. Irwin & Co..
presented a letter 20 the Board Of
Health yesterday stating that dis
ease was raging among the cattle NJ
Hanalei on Kauai. The symptoms
stated in the letter look as If the dis
,ase were tuberculosis. The Board will
investigate the trouble thoroughly and
eport action at the next meeting.
SAN FRANCISCO PLAGUE.
The Post of March 2lst, the day the
Mariposa left, has the following on the
San Francisco plague affair:
The Health Department is abnrt to
make its second assault upon the SAM
tary and other conditions of China
town, and with the rising sun tomor-
row nearly 200 stalwar. employees VI
the department will enter upon the
task of uprooting evil spots, turning
untidy stalls into the streets, destroy
ing undesirable or dangerous struc-
lures and fixtures, burning tainted pro-
visions and flushing out hidden To-
treats and many hooks which have not
been in speaking terms with pure wa
ter for many a day.
An order was issued early this morn
ing. instructing the garbage collectors
to leave their loads in Chinatown to.
day, to be burned there. This Is in
order to prevent the stuff even being
carried through the streets of the city.
On a vacant lot near Dlpont ard Clay
streets force of men WIS at work all
day today burning up The garbage and
debris as 1t was brought to them.
A death at 1913 Sacramento street,
another ut 905 Dupont street and q
third in Oneida place are the fatalities
which stimulated the Health Board
to immediate action, and from these 1t
is feared number o. Other deaths will
soon follow. While the authorities do
not claim that the ouponic plague has
lifted its head or broken out under
cover, they do claim thar the iil;h ana
poor sanitary conditions of the district
have caused an epid epic among the
| Chinese which may auy day develop
| into the plague and become wide
| spread. In the three cases mentioned
| the cause of death has not been def
nitely known, and the authorities in
innate that 1t may be the plague in q
| mild form. 1t Is this state OF affairs
which has led to the campaign against
uncleanliness and stagnation in the
houses and streets Of the Oriental dis
trict.
| Glands from the three subjects which
| have now puzzled the authorities are
1
! dict has been rendered by DIR. kinyoun
the Federal bacteriologist, and DIR. Kel
logg in the municipal service. The au
thorities will neither assert nor cen!
that the cases are those Of buboni'
plague.
San Francisco, March 20. - TIT
plague situation In this city Is un
changed. Chinatown il being patrol
led by an army Of men who are hayini
its dirt and filth removed as fast Al
possible. There have been no new
cases reported today and those re
ported in the past have not developed
symptoms Of plague. The plague scar
is not, in reality, scare at all, tn
general public paying little o. no atten
ton to the matter. Tnc health oflic
is active simply as matter OF pre-
caution.
Melbourne, March 21.-Sydney, CAPT
tai of New South Wales. and Adelaide
capital Of South Australia, have bee
declared infected with the buboni
plague.
Sydney, N. S. W., March 2l.-Tw
deaths from bubonic plague Occurre
here today and one new case was Off
cially reported.
Friday, March 30.
DIR. Taylor was asked mis- afternoo
II he had received any special infor
nation regarding tho question q
plague in San Francisco.
He told in reply OF letters he had sc
from DR.. Williamson, president OF tn
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