The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-30


traceable so far. She has been o
reported as suspicious. .
For more than forty-eght hours the
plague situation had been more favor
able and the Board of Health was look
ing upon the lull as a sign of a prob
able decrease IN the death list, when
the death of the Japanese, Assagura,
at the Kalihi Detention Camp Hospital
WAS announced yesterday afternoon
The man had been in the hospital for
about two days and his ailment was
diagnosed as pneumonia. He had been
slightly i'll for nearly three weeks, until
Friday, when more decided symptoms
were disclosed. He had been delTious
since that time. There was a small
giandular enlargement in the groin,
bul IL was not sensitive TO the touch.
Upon his death DR.. Howard's suspi-
ciOns We're aroused as to the cause OF
the mans death, and the body was re-
moved to the morgue and postmortem
examination performed by DR.. Hoff-
man, resulting in an official announce
ment of plague.
Assaguras wife has been i'll for near
ly three weeks. her illness commenc-
ing ut almost the Identical hour with
her husbands. Last Friday she too
was considerably worse, developing
strong pneumonia symptoms, since
which date she has been delirious most
OF the time. No glandular swellings or
sensitivenesS are observable in her case
bat since the postmortem on her hus-
band revealed unmistakable bubonic
symptoms. she is now considered very
suspicious.
Chiega, the Japanese suspect who
WAS removed on Friday from Kalihi to
the pest hospital, died early Saturday
morning. The body was brought up to
the morgue, where Dr. Hoffman, assist
ed by a japanese physician, performed
a portmortem examination. Upon the
removal of the lungs, the right one was
discovered to De greatly enlarged, and
almost as solid as lump of rubber.
The mans death was attributed to
pneumonia.
Since December 18th and mp to Sat
urday night, according to the BY
Authority of the Board of Health, there
have been fifty-three cases of buboniC
plague forty-fye of which have proved
fatal, there being in the plague hospital
Mt that time eight patients classed as
plague patients. Adding the case of
the Japanese who died yesterday morn
ing. the death roll runs up to forty-siX,
and the number of cases is increased to
fifty-four by the addition of the wife
of the Japanese. For the week there
were seven deaths.
About the Soldiers
In 1895, during the cholera epidemic,
the National Guards We're exposed to
all kinds of inclement weather. steady
sentinel duty and various kinds of la
bOr TO which many of them were ordi-
nariiy unused. Most of the foreigners
in the regiment were clerks in offices
and business houses, used to a routine
work which was sedentary in most
cases. Their work as National Guards
men was severe, and in addition to
this. the young men We're given to ath-
ietic sports in the Executive grounds
when off duty. Al that time 1t was dis
covered that the strain of guard duty
superinduced by athletics, and sleeping
in the open air, had brought about an
affection or swelling in the abdomen,
or just above the fold in which the
bubo of the plague is found. These
cases were treated in the manner usual
ly adaptable for such swellings and
they disappeared in time.
Since the National Guards have been
engaged in their sentry work, during
the past six weeks, the same abdominal
swellings, and in almost the same
locality. have appeared in one or two
of the guardsmen, and their original is
a4t tn Ia. n :
those observed in 1895. Appearing as
they have in this manner, the physi-
clans say there Is not the slightest con-
nection between the bubo formed by
the plague, and that produced by ex-
traordinary activity and WEAKNESS such
as comes with six hours steady guard
duty. One case of this kind has been
observed, but there are no symptoms
whatever of tine plague accompanying
II. noticeably lack of fever and high
temperature. In this case the man
would not have been placed on the ON
duty" list, had 1t not been that the ply
sician thought that in any case of III
ness the patient should be laid on
Board of Health Meeting.
Al the Board Of Health meeting Sat
urday afternoon there were present:
President Wood, George W, Smith. f
NJ. Hatch, F, ], Lowrey, Or, Emerson
and DR., Day,
The first business considered wa.
that OF a bill for drayage rendered b,
Fred. Harrison, incurred by the latte
In the removal OF his marble slabs an,
tombstones from his place OF business
preparatory TO the destruction of tn,