The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-02-07
PANTHEON JAPANESE sUCCUMBS
SUDDENLY.
Japanese Dies Without Attention ct
Old Chinese Theater-Hartman is
Still Improving.

ednesday-Plague deaths, 0; plague
cases, O; suspicious cases, 0.
At IL o'clock this morning word was
brought to the Board of Health office
that a Japanese had died in the old
Chinese theater on the Waikiki side of
Aala lane without medical attendance.
/ It was stated that he had been i'll since
the great fire of January 10 and had
since been abed at the theater. DR..
Peterson examined the man and found
no bubonic symptoms, although blood
! bad eXuded from his mouth. The
corpse was removed to the morgue this
afternoon and an autopsy will be held.
| The mans name was Kawamoto, aged
35.
| Aside from the case of fever disCoV-
| cred by DIR. Herbert at his office last
night there has been nothing of inter-
est in the situation in the past twenty
| four hours.
The treatment of the man Yamaota,
at the pest house. with plague serum
was scientific success but was rather
rough on the man. 1t was what female
medical students would call "beauti-
| ful,' with facial expression convey
ing all that that word means In fact
the medicine went ito the spot" found
the plague bacilh and began to throw II
cut. Like many surgical operations
the treatment was q success although
the patient died.
j. II. Hartman, the man from the
Pantheon stables, is much better tc.
day. His fever lower and he is per.
fectly rational, and, apparently, in ex.
cellent spirits. There was a slight turr
for the worse last night, but favor.
able change followed soon after and the
improvement has since continued
Speaking to pr. Nichols late yesterday
Hartman said: my principal rcgret
is the trouble into which have gotter
the good people with whom I lived
was stranger here when I went t.
their house. They took me in and wert
very kind to me. 1t breaks me all IL,
to think that they have to go int
quarantine and suffer the loss of thei
home"
The Japanese woman and child from
Merchant street and the Japanese mai
from the Kobayashi hotel, cured o
plague, were this morning transferre,
from the pest house to battery CAM
where they will undergo a period o
quarantine preparatory to being re
leased. Mrs. Franz is greatly improV
ed and will soon be out of bed lone
the odorless eXcavator man, is we'll an
is now employed as a helper at tn
pest house. The little Chinese bo
from near Union Square has had
hard time of it but is getting better
He is now able to sit up and nearly a
fever has disappeared.
The third man from the Pantheo
stables, Yamaota, died last night at tn
pest house in Kakaako of plague. H
, was taken, as will be remembered
from the lodging house at the corne
' of South street and Kawaiahao lane
There were unmstakable outward in
dications of plague. Treatment with tn
plague serum did not good whatever i
= his case.
Last night DR.. Herbert examined
Japanese at his office who is employe
in a city saloon. The man had a feve
but no other signs of plague. DIR. Hei
= bert wanted him watched, howeve
and requested that he be sent to one
the detention camps. He was place
in one of the corrals at the kerosen
e oil warehouse. Today the patient sti
= has fever but there are no plague symr
toms.
Tkahada Daigo, Japanese man, age
= %, died at the battery camp late yes
terday of tuberculosis. A post mortel
was conducted by Dr. Hoffman.
DR.. Wood has received $31 from ladiC
of Lahaina for use in relieving an
distress in the detention camps.