The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-08
PRICE FIVE CENTS.

ties on Tuesday evening to the effect that
ease presenting most suspicious cir
es csslhstances had broken out at Corinda.
.ins,.s;Sa. .,s siSeiin A., nelng man employed in
Dr. Bancrofts report on the suspected
case al Corinda is to the effect that the
Z '1ensi asi,a Mr. ~, Leslie. Jr. son Of MIR. A.
merchant. is suffering from a mild at
TACK or bubonic plague. The patient has
Men Messrs sinppioyed pt as a warehouseman by
hessrs. 1homas Brown & Sons. city and
lS understood to have been ailing since
tuesday only: The number of contacts
N tds tne case @ has not been yet ofHcially
are good few. The patient has been
isolated, pending arrangements for earlv
removal to Colmslie
ms latest brings the total OF Brisbane
cases up to eight, of which four have
occurred since Monday.
Rat Destt uction.
Ihere are at present under detention
AZ Coinlsiie eighteen contacts con-
sisting OF seven connected with the shan
ahan case. six with the Blackfordl case.
anu nve with the Larsen case. To this
total there have to be added the CON
tacts In connection with the Corinda
case. The contacts connected with All
tne previous cases had been released be-
break occurred
The work of destroying rats seems to
De going ahead well under the new con-
ditions of Cd. per head cap:tatioss fee
and while this fee promises to end In the
destruction of very large number of
fats; 1t Will be big drain on the finances
OF OF ahe Joint Board. For the last couple
the sanitary wharf in the city has aver
aged 2p each day, this being outside of
what is being destroyed and paid for at
tne various shire and board Offices
The Government has received a fur
tner supply of 5000 doses of plague
propnyiaetie from Bombay. which Is now
being distributed to the health onicers at
the different ports of the colony
Cases at Rockhampton.
RoCKHAMPTON, May h--e,ons,dsr-
the report that there had been fhree e
cases of plague, one of which ended fafal.
" Inquiries that have been made ehosv
miehaei i'n on onnnna,yY oSasmrday last man named
admitted to the hospital He was sup
posed 70 be suffering from fever. but
unlt uulirg ;dt,y dsunaay the symptoms became al
tnese increasing, microscopicaI exami-
nation was made late yesterday after
Sn and tbe ~ e,d ,ne resident surgeon. DR.. Reid.
anu lne municipal health officer DR.. Mac
uonaid. This revealed unmistakabiv
anas @ tne man was suffering from plague.
aroupa. anu ne was at once isolated In the
s tSlounos OF the institution. Last nicj,f
tI, U oecaHe worse, and died at O'clock
THIS morning. O'DonneII waa orenscs,asa
~ Sne uine as generally usoful1 az
Craas a.a Hotel. koongal near Lakes.
couple or dead rats which he : haxi
a9and under the hotel to DR. MacT1on-
a, az, VINO directed him to DESTROY fl,an,
IN IN SATURDAY the man became iii. and ~,
ane adVlce OF DR.. Stuart, who was called
"a. "a, ne was taken to the hospital. II fs
nt that he contracted the Disease
'''''h q usSs on one of the rats.
Details of Gases.
,.,,.o, second d case was that Of a how
enn,o Wiiilam Kline. II years Of age
employed at the store of j NJ ua.asaI,
q Co, In East street. and l;vins g. ortSh ts
Iesttuence OF his brother, at the frr's
steaoies. at the upper end of Roisox-ar
ss.IeeI The first time he compla NED ~
Dn,is lds aat ~ was on sa turday. but it was not
ad - SesteFoay that DR.. Voss was cali
ed IN. and bacteriolog1cai exarnina.aa,,
plague. ""S ahected with
The third case was that q, patr,or
" heaa, ah, aged 80 years. who had latter
~ Deen employed as O. street scavan1ar
IN Rockhampton. and resided at tha r.;
1h nI,oh ooarding-house, at the corner nf
ooisoNer ana Stanley streets He .,so
was well up to Saturday, when he con-
elacleu What appeared, as in O'DonnelPs
f fra 10 10 oe 1eyer. Several smears taken
from his blood have been examined mi
croscopicaily, but SO far plague bacilfi
nave not been found. The case houev
er, is regarded as suspicious
The Central Hotel with thirteen in
matesl, the residence of Kime's broth
er with three inmates), and the Cr,te-
ron boarding house with ten inmatesl
nave been Isolated. 1t has been decided
TO house Kline and Donovan In tents
near the newly erected plague hospital
Iouay; While the contacts will be re-
moved temporarily to the plague hospi-