The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-02-20
FIRE DEPARTMENTS 5 WORK lease At HOTEL STABLES
CHINAMAN FROM THERE DIES OF
PLAGUE.
Stables Quarantined and Action to be
Taken this Acknowledging the
Infection.

The Hawaiian hotel stables, at the
corner of Richards and Hotel streets,
are in quarantine today on account of
the death at 6 o'clock last night of
man from there with plague.
Yesterday morning DIR. Hoffman ex-
amined the case and considered 1t sus-
picious. He took the man in his buggy
to the pest house. When in the late
afternoon there was no longer a doubt
of plague he gave out the facts but, to
divert alarm and give the Board Of
Health time to act before there could
be clearing of Asiatics from the sta
bles, stated that he had found the pa
tient on the road in another part of
the town.
The victims name was All Hung,
aged 81. Symptoms became pronoun-
ced at about o'clock and the poor fe!-
low breathed his last at g.
During the night the stables were
Guarantined. This morning nine Asia
tics and six Portuguese, employed in
the stables were removed to the sus-
pect camp at the battery. The men from
the office will be required to report
every day to the Board of Health for
examination.
Action with regard to the stables will
be taken this afternoon. Following
out the regular policy the property will
ne burned. Some weeks ago the stables
inside and out were thoroughly cleaned
and disinfected and otherwise are in
good condition.
The Hotel and Pantheon stables are
owned by the same parties though they
are under different management. There
| iS possibility of infection from tho
transfer of animals or men between
them. This is the theory first touched
upon and is being investigated.
Or. WOODS statement of this case is
as tollows "Ah Hung lived in Kaka-
ako and worked at the stables. Last
Thursday he asked permission to
change his residence to the house of a
friend in Pauoa valley and at the same
time said he was not feeling well. Ma
nager Buckley sent for DR.. Cooper and
| at noon the Chinaman was examined.
DR. Cooper found him with a little
fever, but the case was not at all sus-
picious and he told Buckley that the
IelloW might change his residence Mr..
Huckley went to the rooms of the Citi-
zens' Sanitary committee TO oet the
proper permit, but in the meanwhile the
| Chinaman skipped out
From the stables All Hung went to
the house of his friend in Pauoa. Just
where this house is we have not been
aple TO learn but the police are working
on the matter. 1t was Thursday night
that he went there. On Sunday night
he was kicked out by his friend sIept
until Monday morning in a ditch in the
neighborhood.
EARLY Monday morning he reap
peared at the stables. He was quite a
sick man then. Mr.. Buckley sent a
messenger for DR.. Hoffman and tho
latter quietly took the patient in his
| buggy to the pest house.
II am unable to say what will be
done with the stables, as, that is a mat
ter for the Board of Health to settle.
Again l wish to say, however that the
man did not sleep on the premises. All
the other stable hands have been taken
! into quarantine"
The Chinaman from the house near
the Waikiki turn had pneumonia pla-
| que. OF the case DIR. Wood said last
night: "The difference between this
and plague of the glands is simply that
the lungs are the point of infection. It
IS an annoying type of the same
disease, 1t being next to impossible to
detect it without a post mortem exami-
nation. For that reason we have been
holding autopsies on all cases of pneu-
monia."
This morning all the people in the
houses on the infected premises were
taken to Kalihi in drays.