The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-03-28
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- Public Morgue - Mer-
chandise Matters.
The Two Last Cases.


Every member OF the Board OF
Health was present at the meeting yes
terday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. After
the reading OF the minutes Of the pre-
cedlng meeting, the Board proceeded
TO business. Dr. Wood, first Of all. re-
ported on the two last cases Of bubOnic
plague. He said:
Il have to report two deaths from
bubonic plague since we met last. The
first case was that of John Hurley, the
white man who lived on Vineyard
street; his sickness was known to the
Board of Health fer almost "A week be-
fore the case was pronounced to be one
OF the plague. 1t was not at first con-
sidered at all suspicious. DR.. Cooper
was the attending physician and he
saw nothing in the mans illness which
IN any way indicated plague. DR.. lobe
and myself also visited the patient and
We could see nothing which could be
Classed as suspicious. | stationed a
guard at the house, not through any
anxiety as to what might turn out. but,
because. while there was any swelling
at all In the groin, thought the strict
est precautions should be taken. 1t was
said that Hurley had sprained himself
lifting trunk: this might have caused
the swelling described; but. neveTthe-
less, / wanted TO be on the safe side,
and so ordered the placing of the
guard. Afterwards the guard was re-
moved for a day or two but was re-
placed when the case developed more
suspicious symptoms. Hurley died
Saturday night last: the post-mOrtem
examination revealed plague.
Infection in this case is most rea-
sonably explained by the fact that the
man had been doing guard duty for the
Board of Health at the Chinese stables
in Iwilei, from which the plague pa
tient Seu Kan was taken recently,
which we all considered in a very much
worse condition than the stables on
the Waikiki side of the road from
which a plague victim was taken be-
fore that. officer Fox says that John
Hurley did night guard duty at Twilei.
so that he was for hours at n time on
infected premises and it is not over
strange that he should have become
infected himself.
II first heard of the Yamasaka case
when | was returning from the post
norton examination OF John Hurley
attending the patient. When / saw
Yamasaka l decided his case to be sus-
piciOus. He lived in a two-story lodg-
ing house with about forty other per-
sons, mostly Japanese, and for the
most part fishermen. judging by the
nets, weights. baskets, etc. lying
around. This was fairly clean com
munity and / don't know where Yama-
saka could have taken his infection
unless we consider that locality as
generally infected. The lodging house
in KakaakO where the Japanese lived
is very close to where Hartman. the
Pantheon stables night
who has recovered from the plague.
used to live, and not very remote from
other places which have been infected.
'Gamasaka was a carpenter: where
he had been working no one knows
He took his Infection possibly through
the hands or more probably through
the lungs. His sickness commenced on
Friday afternoon: he felt generally IN
well at that time and complained of a
severe headache and a little fever; on
the following day the fever was higher.
his temperature being 104 10 105. At
that time no buboes were in evidence,
though the man complained OF a ten
derness I'm the right femoral region.
saw Hamasaka on Sunday and he was
then quite well-deyelOFed case of
plague.
Both of the bodies of the last two
plague victims have been incineratsd.
and all persons living where the d.
ceased lived have been removed TO Ka-
lihi camp. We will visit these prem
lses after the meeting and decide what
is TO ne done with the buildings"
Merchandise Matters.
Dr. Wood: I have been talking this
morning with the steamship people
and also with several merchants in re-
lation TO the shipping Of merchandise
to the other Islands. There seems to
me TO be a great deal of unnecessary
complaint in regard TO the hardships
Of making shipments under the exist
ing regulations. AS a matter OF fact.
il does not seem that the regulations,
as they are now, are stringent enough
TO make shipments of necessary goods
impossible, and fail to see any difficult
~ in the matter.
THE chief reason OF complaint IS
that IL IS impossible to ship goods as
soon as they are disinfected. The
steamers sometimes do not leave port
for two or three days after the goods
intended for them have been fumigat-
ed or disinfected; in this way the goods
are compelled TO lie around more or
less exposed and when the time comes
for them to be shipped they are practi-
cally as If they had never been disiu-
fected.
Il suggested the dividing up % the
large fumigatiug house into rooms
where goods could be stored for a few
days after disinfectiOn, IL necessary d.
The quarantine wharf ought to be a
great relief on the present strain in
shipping matters; but there seems to
be no great desire on the part OF ship
pers to avail themselves Of this oppOr-
tunity; they seem rather TO fight shy