The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-02-13
PLAGUE
ON MAUI
Seven Deaths Reported
By DR.. Wood.
DISEASE is MALIGNANT
| All Bodies Cremated-- KahuIui China
town Burned--Action Of the
Maui Committee.
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q reporter at 2 a. m. g
=. He states positively that sew 6:
q en- bubonic plague deaths have g
g occurred since February 4th, g
9. and that those seen by himself g.
g personally were malignant and g
3. typical types of plague, being g
g black in the tissues. g.
% Chinatown, in Kahului, was g
g condemned and burned before g
3. President Wood left Lahaina. g
q DIR. Garvin was placed in gen. g
9. eral charge of all medical af- g
| g fairs for the Board of Health, e
| 9. and will remain there until the 60
. danger is over. =
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The Kauai arrived off the harbor at
100 this morning, bringing President
Wood back from Maui with news that
the plague at Kahului was proven by
postmortems and by examination of
microscopical slides, and that seven
deaths had occurred. President Wood
stated to reporter as soon as he set
foot upon the Inter-Island wharf:
We left here at Has Saturday night
and arrived at Kahului early Sunday
morning, and by o'clock managed to
land. When We got ashore the resi-
dents were surprised to see DIR. Gar
vim and myself, as they had just sent
Mr.. Hons TO Honolulu on the Lehua.
They reported to us that a man had
died that morning, a Chinese, and they
had taken the body away to cremate
it. l sent messenger post haste after
the people in charge Of the body, tell
ing them to stop in order that we
could see it. They had taken posses
sion of the rife range and used that
as morgue and the man was left
there. After we started for the morgue
we were told that another case was re-
ported in Chinatown.
We Immediately went to see the man
and found him in a house where an
other Chinaman had died of plague; II
was little shop. The man was down
stairs and sitting ON wooden bench
, When he saw US coming he sat up ant
! tried to make bluff of being well fol
, the time being. We found him typi
/ cal case of plague, black plague at that
and in an advanced stage. He had bu
boes in the right femoral and inguina
> regions. / remarked at the time tina
}. he would die in six hours, and he die,
in three hours.
after seeing this man we went owe
q to the temporary morgue where W
made a postmortem on the Chinaman
i Here We also found a typical case o
= plague and found a bubo in the axil
larry glands. We performed thoroug
postmortem on the body. In the mean
time some Of the sanitary committe
I of Kahului arrived. With them wer
II DIR. Weddick, DR.. McConkey and d.
J. Sabey, who witnessed the postmorten
y We made slides from the spleen an
l. glands and found the bacilli in larg
> numbers.
If "The body was then cremated.
N fun sral pyre was erected out of raj
J. road ties. Just about the time the
;. finished cremating this Chinaman. til
man we had first seen on our way u
was brought over and also cremated.
- company's Office and meeting of ii
d Sanitary Committee of Maui was hel
there. The minutes of the meetin
were as follows:
DIR. c. B. Wood, chairman. presen
q as agents of the Board of Health. Dr.
Of Weddick, McConkey, Sheriff l.. !
T. Baldwin, H. P. Baldwin, Messrs. Low
= rie, Won Tempsky and Ogg. Besid
- these all the white population TIL
" could be spared from patrolling we
~ present.
1.-THE following resolutions were Dr.
De scented and passed:
nu "In the opinion of the Sanitary Cor
e mittee of Maui, the district in Kah
ut lui, known as Chinatown, bounded
the Kahului railroad track and t
new wharf, and Front street to t
. seaside. excepting the Custom hou:
Is infected by bubonic plague, a.
public safety demands that it be q
strOyed by fire." Carried.
SIX Moved that the Sanitary Commit
De be authorized to appoint a commit
Iii. of three to appraise the buildings. a
70 another committee of three to appra
'eL the goods. the same to be destroy
10Y with the buildings, with the except
- of such papers and valuables as N
a. be designated by the committee, a
can safely be disinfected" Carried.
Moved that the whole Of Kahu
be quarantined as against the rest
SE the island, and that there be spec
zen quarantine placed on Chinatown,
ED ! against the whole town of KahulU
436 "All freight to and from vessels
. the port of Kahului and to and fir
the unaffected districts. shall be hal
led by the Kahului Railroad Compa
from their railway line and seoV
LIST such handling of freight to be done
ave tirely by men from the uninfected Q
tin. ltricts outside of Kahului." Carried
asa Moved that the appraising commit